I was a sinner, less perfect than God. By conviction of the Holy Spirit I learned that my condition would incur the eternal condemnation of God if I did not submit to His grace. I acknowledged myself a sinner and threw myself on His mercy and grace, recognizing that He had brought salvation to earth through His Son Jesus Christ. After God the Father put God the Son to death on the cross, He could proclaim grace and pardon to all who would submit to Him. I came to the cross, believed His promise about His Son, and God declared me righteous even while I was ungodly and gave me authority to become His child. I ceased to be a child of wrath and became a child of God, justified from all things. Simultaneously, I was declared to be an heir of God, joint-heir with Jesus Christ. I received eternal life, and shall never perish. I was accepted in the Beloved; my body became the temple of the Holy Spirit; I was born of the Spirit into the family of God, baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ, and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption. I have an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fades not away, reserved in Heaven for me. Although I know myself to be a sinner, I am not concerned about the penalty for sin, since the Lord Jesus Christ bore the penalty and declared me righteous. The love of Christ becomes the constraining factor in my life, and I seek to glorify Him as Lord. I know Him as my Creator and so have peace of mind. I know Him as Savior and so have peace of conscience. In the measure that I enter into the second rest, I know Him as Lord and find the peace that passes all understanding.

Donald Grey Barnhouse

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs, Grains	Italian	Cookies, Italian	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2	c	Flour
6	oz	Cream
3		Eggs
1	c	Crisco
2	tb	Almond extract
1	tb	Cinnamon
1 1/2	c	Sugar
6	oz	Milk
1		Stick oleo
3	tb	Baking powder
1	c	Nuts, chopped
1		Box powdered sugar
1		Stick of Butter or oleo Food coloring

INSTRUCTIONS

ICING
Cream oleo, Crisco and sugar.  Add eggs, almond extract, cinnamon, cream
and milk.  Mix in nuts and baking powder and flour.  Roll small balls into
long rolls, then kind of flatten it.  Slice in 1/2 inch pieces. Put on
cookie sheet.  Bake until done at 350 degrees.
Mix melted butter and powdered sugar.  Put in small containers and add
different food colorings.  Spread on cooled cookies and let harden. Then
put in canned containers.  Can store for months.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #281
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:28:22 -0400
From: Walt Gray <waltgray@mnsinc.com>

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“God specializes in surprise endings”

The soldiers that spat upon Him, and mocked Him, met not with a reproachful expression from Him. He held His peace at their clamors, offered His back to their scourges, reviled them not when He lay under the greatest violence of their rage, was patient under His sufferings, while He was despised more than any man by the people. His calmness was more stupendous than their rage, and the angels could not but more inexpressibly wonder at the patience of the sufferer, than the unmercifulness of the executioners; He was more willing to die, than they were to put Him to death; He suffered not by force, He courted the effusion of His blood, when He knew that the hour which His Father had appointed, and man needed, was approaching. Neither the infamy of the cross, nor the sharpness of the punishment, nor the present and foreseen ingratitude of his enemies, could deter Him from desiring and effecting man's salvation. He went to it, not only as a duty, but an honor; and was content for a while to be the sport of devils, that He might be the spring of salvation to men.

Stephen Charnock