When Paul says, “If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink,” he does not mean, “Let’s all become lechers.” He means, there is a normal, simple, comfortable, ordinary life of human delights that we may enjoy with no troubling thoughts of heaven or hell or sin or holiness or God – if there is no resurrection from the dead. And what stunned me about this train of thought is that many professing Christians seem to aim at just this, and call it Christianity. Paul did not see his relation to Christ as the key to maximizing his physical comforts and pleasures in this life. No, Paul’s relation to Christ was a call to choose suffering – a suffering that was beyond what would make atheism “meaningful” or “beautiful” or “heroic.” It was a suffering that would have been utterly foolish and pitiable to choose if there is no resurrection into the joyful presence of Christ… Judge for yourself. How many Christians do you know who could say, “The lifestyle I have chosen as a Christian would be utterly foolish and pitiable if there is no resurrection?”

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		Squares unsweetened chocolate
1 1/4	c	Milk – divided
1 1/2	c	Sugar – divided
1	c	Canned apple sauce
1	ts	Vanilla
2	c	Flour
1	ts	Soda
1	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Shortening
3		Eggs
2	pk	Dream Whip
1/2	c	Cold milk
1/2	c	Cold canned applesauce
1/2	ts	Vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

APPLE FLUFF FROSTING
Mix chocolate, 1/2 cup milk and 1/2 cup sugar in saucepan; cook and stir
until thick and smooth. Stir in apple sauce and vanilla, cool. Combine and
sift dry ingredients. Cream shortening with remaining 1 cup sugar; blend in
eggs one at a time. Alternately add dry ingredients and remaining 3/4 cup
milk to creamed mixure. blending well after each addition. Blend in
chocolate mixture.
Turn batter into 2 greased and floured 8" layer pans. Bake at 350 for 40
min. or until done. Split each cooled layer to make 4 layers.
Apple Fluff Frosting: Beat topping mix with milk. When mixture begins to
stiffen and form peaks, add applesauce and vanilla. Beat until firm enough
to spread. Makes about 3 cups.
Apple Cream Frosting:
Beat together 1 large pkg (8 oz) cream cheese, 4 cups 10X sugar and 1 Tbs.
grated lemon rind. When mixture is fluffy, stir in 2 to 3 Tbs. canned
applesauce; chill. Spread between and on top layers
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest by [email protected] (Gary & Doris
McCoy) on Mar 30, 1998

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