Preaching usually represents one-way communication. When pastors are taught how to preach but do not learn other forms of communication, they are severely handicapped. When they express stress and tension in the congregation, they revert to the form of communication they know best, and that is preaching. Not listening, mind you, but preaching. We [as pastors] have learned well how to speak our opinions, but we have not learned how to hear or respond equally well to the opinions and positions of others. Often, once we stake out a position within a conflict scenario, we are immovable.

H.B. London

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains		Cookies	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Flour
2	ts	Baking Soda
1	c	Sugar
3/4	c	Brown Sugar
2	lg	Eggs
1	ts	Vanilla
1	c	Dry Oats
1	c	Peanut Butter
1	pk	Chocolate Chip (Or More If Desired)
1	c	Chopped Pecans; Note

INSTRUCTIONS

Beat together the shortening, sugars, and eggs until fluffy. Blend in
peanut butter and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Stir in chocolate chips.
Roll into small balls and place on ungreased baking sheet. Flatten with a
glass dipped in sugar. Bake at 350 degrees approximately 8 minutes.
NOTES : Note.  The original recipe did not call for nuts, I love nuts in
cookies so I added them.  They are great
Recipe by: Marietta & Joel from Kansas
Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter  by
ksmith3001@juno.com (Katherine L Smith) on Nov 3, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“The Bible: More up-to-date than tomorrow’s newspaper”

Here's the problem: when every sin is seen as the same, we are less likely to fight any sins at all. Why should I stop sleeping with my girlfriend when there will still be lust in my heart? Why pursue holiness when even one sin in my life means I'm Osama bin Hitler in God's eyes? Again, it seems humble to act as if no sin is worse than another, but we lose the impetus for striving and the ability to hold each other accountable when we tumble down the slip-and-slide of moral equivalence. All of a sudden the elder who battles the temptation to take a second look at the racy section of the Land's End catalog shouldn't dare exercise church discipline on the young man fornicating with reckless abandon. When we can no longer see the different gradations among sins and sinners and sinful nations, we have not succeeded in respecting our own badness; we've cheapened God's goodness. If our own legal system does not treat all infractions in the same way, surely God knows that some sins are more heinous than others. If we can spot the difference, we'll be especially eager to put to death those sins which are most offensive to God.

Kevin DeYoung