One of the most amazing and significant facts of history is that within 5 centuries of its birth, Christianity won the professed allegiance of the overwhelming majority of the Roman Empire and even the support of the Roman state. Beginning as a seemingly obscure sect of Judaism, one of the scores, even hundreds of religions and religious groups which were competing within the realm, revering as its central figure one who had been put to death by the machinery of Rome.

Kenneth Latourette

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Cakes	18	Cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

1 1/4	c	Sugar
3/4	c	Golden Crisco
2		Eggs
1 3/4	c	Flour
1/2	c	LF cocoa
1	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Salt
1	c	Milk
1	pk	Chipits mint chocolate chips
2	c	Icing sugar
2	tb	Butter; softened
2	tb	Milk
1	ds	Green food colouring

INSTRUCTIONS

FROSTING
1.  Beat sugar with Crisco and eggs until light.  Blend in all remaining
ingredients except chips.  Blend 2 mins more or until smooth and creamy.
Blend in 1 cups chips.
2.  Pour into greased muffin tins and bake at 375F for 15-20 mins until
tester comes clean.  Cool.
3.  For frosting.  Combine sugar, butter and milk and blend well.  Add food
colouring to desired colour.  Ice cooled cupcakes and sprinkle remaining
chips overtop.
Contributor:  Chipits pamphlet
Posted to recipelu-digest by Cathleen <catht@interlog.com> on Feb 02, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers”

The great hymns of the church are on the way out. They are not gone entirely, but they are going and in their place have come trite jingles that have more in common with contemporary advertising ditties than the psalms. The problem here is not so much the style of the music, though trite words fit best with trite tunes and harmonies. Rather it is with the content of the songs. The old hymns expressed the theology of the Bible in profound and perceptive ways and with winsome memorable language. Today’s songs are focused on ourselves. They reflect our shallow or nonexistent theology and do almost nothing to elevate our thoughts about God. Worst of all are songs that merely repeat a trite idea, word, or phrase over and over again. Songs like this are not worship, though they may give the church-goer a religious feeling. They are mantras, which belong more in a gathering of New Agers than among the worshiping people of God.

James Montgomery Boice