There before you is the grisly old enemy to spiritual progress standing astride the path of obedience to Christ – SELF! This monster cries out daily to be served. He challenges the dominion of Jesus Christ and opposes every devotion of time, energy and love to the Lord. But it is a strange war that we may win only by feeling ourselves the painful blows we give. Every denial of self is felt keenly. How we would love to change the scene of combat! But on every occasion when we are serious about advancing in righteousness, we must contend with self.

Walter Chantry

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains		Candies, Christmas, Holiday	60	Servings

INGREDIENTS

12	tb	Butter
1	c	Sugar, brown
1		Eggs
1	c	Flour
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1	ts	Vanilla extract
3/4	c	Sesame seeds

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 325.  Cream butter until soft, then gradually beat in sugar
and egg until mixture is fluffy. Combine flour and baking powder; stir into
butter mixture.  Add vanilla and sesame seeds and mix well. Drop dough by
teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets, about 1-1/2" apart. Bake 12-15
minutes, until cookies are light brown.
Let cookies rest a minute, then remove immediately from baking sheet. If
cookies harden before removal, return to oven for a minute to soften.
"These cookies can be frozen, or will keep well in tightly-covered
container."
Recipe by Marian Burros, NY Times food columnist and author of severan
cookbooks. Source: _Gifts from the Christmas Kitchen_, sent by BEE to
Sylvia Steiger (THE.STEIGERS on GEnie, 71511,2253 on CI$) for the November
1992    cookbook swap

A Message from our Provider:

“You’re never too old for God”

Excellence is, in fact, a relationship. There is only One is truly and perfectly excellent. He alone is the sum and definition of what excellence is and does. So the one who is excellence, in His grace, came to you when you were in a state of anything but excellence, and by grace offered you the promise of actually becoming a partaker of His divine nature. He then connects you to purposes and goals way higher, way grander and more glorious than you would every have sought for yourself... Your hope of ever being excellent in His eyes and doing what is excellent in His sight is found in your relationship to Him and in His grace that not only forgives and accepts but radically transforms. And He calls and empowers you to display His excellency and the excellency of His grace. It is only this excellency that has the power to free us from the false excellency of human pride and the mediocrity that results when we are okay with ourselves and our world just the way they are.

Paul David Tripp