What once bothered us doesn't bother us anymore. What once activated our conscience doesn't seem to anymore. What we knew was outside of God’s boundaries, and therefore functionally outside of ours, lives inside our boundaries, and it doesn’t matter to us anymore. It is a scary place to be. The hard heart is a stony heart. It is not malleable anymore. It’s hard and resistant to change, no longer tender and responsive to the squeeze of the hands of the Spirit. There is evil in our hearts and in the acts of our hands, and we’re okay with it. Could there be a more dangerous place for a believer to be?

Paul David Tripp

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs			2	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2		Wheels (8 oz. each) brie
		Puff pastry (store-bought or homemade)
1		Egg
1	tb	Water

INSTRUCTIONS

Remove the rind of the brie with a sharp knife. Roll out 1 sheet of pastry
to 1/4 inch thick or less. Place brie in center of pastry, cut a rough
circle around it, with 2" "seam". Wrap the pastry around the brie. With the
remaining dough cut out leaf or other decorative shapes and aplpy to the
top of the wrapped brie with the egg wash (the egg beaten with the water).
Brush the entire package with the egg wash, transfer to a baking sheet.
This can be done 12 hours in advance and refrigerated. Just before serving,
bake in a 375 degree oven about 40 minutes. Serve warm.
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #398 by Bakerbear1@aol.com on Nov 18,
1997

A Message from our Provider:

“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish that counts”

The oldest and most revered tactic for avoiding the misery of guilt is religion. This tactic may be the most deceptive because it comes closest to the truth. It recognizes what the intellectual and physical strategies generally ignore: that the ultimate cause of guilt is that there is a righteous God whose will for his creatures is ignored or defied. It recognizes that under every pang of conscience in the human soul there is the silent, often unexpressed conviction, 'I have gone against God.' The means that religion has developed to deal with this guilt is to try to placate or appease God with good works or religious ritual. Religious people know they owe God a great debt for their disobedience. But they often make the terrible mistake of thinking they can pay it back through good works and the performance of religious duties.

John Piper