If you want to raise a Pharisee, just follow these simple steps (sarcasm!). 1. Make the Christian home all about rule-keeping (do’s and don’t’s), but never explain to them why we should follow God’s Word. 2. Add your own rules to God’s Word and make them more important than God’s Word. 3. Strictly enforce the rules on your children, but give yourself a pass. 4. Show your children nothing about grace, forgiveness, mercy and love. 5. Preach at them until they are blue in the face (bore them with the Bible) and never listen to what they have to say about God’s Word. 6. Make Jesus a burden rather than a blessing – make God’s Word a bondage rather than a liberation. 7. Give them no opportunity to think spiritually for themselves. 8. Fail to guide them in a spiritual worldview – teaching them how to process life with the Bible. 9. Praise their externals regardless of their motives. 10. Teach them to obey only because they have to and not because they should also want to as God’s commands come from a loving and trustworthy Father. 11. Make your disciple punishment rather than correction. 12. Demand self-reformation, rather than pointing them to Christ-transformation by grace. 13. Teach them to obey you as God rather than to obey God by obeying you. 14. Use Scripture and church as punishment. 15. Never pray for them. 16. Correct them more than you encourage them. 17. Beat your kids into external conformity, often to simply make yourself look good and do nothing to shepherd their hearts.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs, Grains		Cookies	60	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/4	c	Butter, softened
1	c	Packed brown sugar
1/2	c	Dairy sour cream
1		Egg
2	ts	Vanilla
1 1/2	c	All-purpose flour
1	ts	Baking soda
1	ts	Salt
1 1/2	c	Old fashioned or quick oats, uncooked
1	pk	Vanilla milk chips (10 oz)
1	c	Flaked coconut
1	cn	Macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped (3 1/2 oz)

INSTRUCTIONS

Beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy. Blend in
sour cream, egg and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add to
butter mixture; mix well. Stir in oats, vanilla milk chips, coconut and
nuts. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of dough, 2" apart, onto ungreased cookie
sheets.
Bake at 375'F. for 10-12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool
on cookie sheet 1 minute. Remove to cooling rack; cool completely.
Makes 5 dozen cookies.
From Favorite All Time Recipes - Homemade Holiday Cookies, Publication
International, Ltd., ISBN 0-7853-0147-X.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/pi-cooky.zip

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