We have failed to understand that children and young people are not God-lovers until the Spirit changes them. They are dead to God. Our attempts at getting these young people to “pray the prayer” when they were small have not necessarily made them children of God. Their behavior belies the true state of their hearts. God has said that the only hope for them, therefore, is the regenerating work of the Spirit in the context of the preaching of the Word (James 1:18). However, our inadequate view of depravity and the inability of man has led us to resort instead to a greater confidence in entertainment to reach them and a minimizing of the use of the Word. If God has ordained that the Word and the Spirit are the only hope for these kids, then we should not avoid the means God has promised to bless.

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains		Cake	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Butter
1	c	Sugar
1		Egg
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ts	Cinnamon
1	ts	Nutmeg
1	ts	Baking soda
1	c	Flour
1/2	c	Chopped nuts
2 1/2	c	Diced apples
1	ts	Vanilla
2	tb	Hot water

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine ingredients in order given. (Batter will be thick). Bake in a
greased 9-inch pie pan for 45 minutes at 350F. Serve warm with whipped
cream or ice cream. Delish.
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A Message from our Provider:

“God is unfeeling? Ha! Alongside him we’re as cold as stones”

He wants to know about the problem of evil. My answer to the problem of evil is this: There is no problem of evil in an atheist's universe because there is no evil in an atheist's universe. Since there is no God, there is no absolute moral standard, and nothing is wrong. The torture of little children is not wrong in an atheist's universe. It may be painful, but it is not wrong. It is morally wrong in a theistic universe, and therefore, there is a problem of evil of perhaps the psychological or emotional sort, but philosophically the answer to the problem of evil is you don't have an absolute standard of good by which to measure evil in an atheist's universe. You can only have that in a theistic universe, and therefore, the very posing of the problem presupposes my world view, rather than his own. God has a good reason for the evil that He plans or allows.

Greg Bahnsen