Nothing makes God more supreme and more central than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – is going to bring satisfaction to their aching hearts besides God. This conviction breeds a people who passionately long for God on Sunday morning. They are not confused about why they are here. They do not see songs and prayers and sermons as mere traditions or mere duties. They see them as means of getting to God or God getting to them for more of His fullness.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Brown sugar
1	c	Butter
1/2	c	White syrup
1	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine these ingred. and boil for 5 minutes. Add 1 tsp baking soda, mix
well. pour over 7-8 quarts of popcorn. Place on 2 buttered cookie sheets.
bake 1 hour at 250. Peanuts can be added to plain popcorn before pouring on
caramel.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 07 Dec 96
From:    BENDEL JODY <bendel@MHD1.MOORHEAD.MSUS.EDU>
Date:    Sat, 7 Dec 1996 23:19:35 -0600

A Message from our Provider:

“Our love for God is the heartbeat of our mission.”

A paradox is an apparent contradiction. Grace and truth aren’t really contradictory. Jesus didn’t switch on truth, then turn it off so He could switch on grace. Both are permanently switched on in Jesus. Both should be switched on in us… Truth without grace breeds a self-righteousness legalism that poisons the church and pushes the world from Christ. Grace without truth breeds moral indifference and keeps people from seeing their need for Christ. Attempts to “soften” the gospel by minimizing truth keep people from Jesus. Attempts to 'toughen” the gospel by minimizing grace keep people from Jesus. It’s not enough for us to offer grace or truth. We must offer both.

Randy Alcorn