God, trying to tell us that our current popular version of Christianity – comfortable, humorous, superficial, entertaining, worldly-wise is exposed (by the lack of power to transform lives) for the irreverent presentation of the Gospel of Christ that it really is. A preacher is commissioned to give the people not what they think they need. No man has any business walking into the pulpit to entertain. He is there [instead] to present Calvary in all its fullness of hope and glory.

Alan Redpath

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Cakes, Amish, Frostings	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Burnt sugar syrup
2		Egg whites, at room temp
1 1/4	c	Sugar
1/4	c	Cold water
1/4	ts	Cream of tarter
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS

Place all the ingredients except the vanilla extract in the top of a double
boiler (but don't place over boiling water yet.) Add 1/4 cup of the burnt
sugar syrup. With a small electric mixer, beat 1/2 minute at low speed.
Place pot over boiling water, but don't allow the pan to touch the boiling
water.  Cook, beating constantly, until the frosting forms stiff peaks,
about 7 minutes.  Add vanilla. Remove from heat and beat 2 minutes longer.
From cooking From Quilt Country by Marcia Adams.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“You’re not God’s judge. One day you’ll discover it’s the other way around”

Citing Psalm 118:22, Peter said [in Acts 4], “He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone.” So in quoting this prophecy about Jesus, Peter is declaring that the most important piece of God’s revelation to man was rejected by the very people who should have seen Him most clearly and esteemed Him most profoundly! But it was God the Father who saw God the Son rejected by His own people. He saw the Son crucified on a cross, thrown away like a rejected stone on a killing hill called Calvary. And it was God the Father who refused to leave His Son in an old dusty tomb and picked Him up, raised Him from the dead and put Him in the most important place as the corner stone. That is why we read in Philippians 2, “For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:9-11).

Randy Smith