If a church is to be what it ought to be for the purposes of God, we must train it in the holy art of prayer. Churches without prayer-meetings are grievously common. Even if there were only one such, it would be one to weep over. In many churches the prayer-meeting is only the skeleton of a gathering: the form is kept up, but the people do not come. There is no interest, no power, in connection with the meeting. Oh, my brothers, let it not be so with you! Do train the people to continually meet together for prayer. Rouse them to incessant supplication. There is a holy art in it. Study to show yourselves approved by the prayerfulness of your people. If you pray yourself, you will want them to pray with you; and when they begin to pray with you, and for you, and for the work of the Lord, they will want more prayer themselves, and the appetite will grow. Believe me, if a church does not pray, it is dead. Instead of putting united prayer last, put it first. Everything will hinge upon the power of prayer in the church.

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2/3	c	Butter or margarine; softened
1	c	Sugar
2	ts	Vanilla
2		Eggs
2	tb	Light corn syrup
2 1/2	c	All-purpose flour
1/2	c	Cocoa
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1/4	ts	Salt
		Decorator icing

INSTRUCTIONS

In a large bowl, beat butter,sugar and vanilla on medium speed of electric
mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs;beat well. Beat in corn syrup. Stir
together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Gradually add to butter
mixture, beating until well blended. Cover, refrigerate until dough is firm
enough to handle. Heat oven to 350. Shape dough into X and O shapes. Place
on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 5 minutes or until set. Remove from
cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. Decorate as desired with icing.
Makes about 5 dozen cookies.
TO SHAPE Xs: Shape rounded teaspoon of dough into 3-inch logs. Place 1 log
on cookie sheet; press lightly in center. Place another 3-inch log on top
of first one, forming X shape.
TO SHAPE Os: Shape rounded teaspoon of dough into 5-inch logs. Connect
ends; pressing lightly, forming O shape.
Recipe by: RECORD-JOURNAL 5/8/96
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 592 by ctlindab@mail1.nai.net on
Jan 24, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. #Augustine”

Where there is no “moral gravity” – that is, no force that draws us to the center – there is spiritual weightlessness. We float on feelings that will carry us where we never meant to go; we bubble with emotional experiences that we often take for spiritual ones; and we are puffed up with pride. Instead of seriousness, there is foolishness. Instead of gravity, flippancy. Sentimentality takes the place of theology. Our reference point will never serve to keep our feet on solid rock, for our reference point, until we answer God’s call, is merely ourselves. We cannot possibly tell which end is up. Paul calls them fools who “…measure themselves by themselves, to find in themselves their own standard of comparison!”

Elisabeth Elliot