Sleep is a parable that God is God and we are mere men. God handles the world quite nicely while a hemisphere sleeps. Sleep is like a broken record that comes around with the same message every day: Man is not sovereign. Man is not sovereign. Man is not sovereign. Don’t let the lesson be lost on you. God wants to be trusted as the great worker who never tires and never sleeps. He is not nearly so impressed with our late nights and early mornings as He is with the peaceful trust that casts all anxieties on Him and sleeps.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Not, Sent	36	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Butter; no substitutes
1	c	Sugar
2		Egg yolks
1	ts	Almond extract
2	c	All-purpose flour
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1	c	Ground almonds
		Colored sugar and frosting; optional

INSTRUCTIONS

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolks and extract.
Combine flour, salt and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture.
Stir in almonds. Cover and chill at least 2 hours. Roll out on a lightly
floured surface to 3/8-inch thickness. Cut with cookiecutters; place on
ungreased baking sheets. Sprinkle with sugar if desired. Bake at 375° for
10-13 minutes or until the edges begin to brown. Cool on wire racks. Frost
if desired.
Recipe by: Taste of Home - December/January 1998
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #933 by The Taillons <taillon@earthlink.net>
on Nov 29, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God. #Henry Blackaby”

Free-will doctrine – what does it? It magnifies man into God; it declares God’s purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God’s will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent upon human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice it holds God to be a debtor to sinners, so that if He gives grace to one He is bound to do so to all. It teaches that the blood of Christ was shed equally for all men and since some are lost, this doctrine ascribes the difference to man’s own will, thus making the atonement itself a powerless thing until the will of man gives it efficacy. Those sentiments dilute the scriptural description of man’s depravity, and by imputing strength to fallen humanity, rob the Spirit of the glory of His effectual grace: this theory says in effect that it is of him that willeth, and of him that runneth, and not of God that showeth mercy.

C.H. Spurgeon