The modern altar call further runs the risk of confusing the idea of mediatorship. Who is our only mediator? With whom does the sinner need to do business if he is to be saved? Must he talk to you? To me? No, he must do business with Christ, for He alone is the one who can bring us to God. But instructing a man to 'come and talk to a personal worker' may well confuse matters. It again distracts from the One of Whom he should be thinking. The sermon itself is the invitation, and it gives direction to Christ and to no one else.

Fred Zaspel

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Dessert, Cake, Chocolate, Sthrn/livng	1	X 10" cake

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Shortening
3	c	Sugar
6		Eggs
2 2/3	c	All-purpose flour
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Salt
1/3	c	Cocoa
1	c	Milk
1	ts	Vanilla extract
		Chocolate Frosting (optional
1	c	Sugar
1/4	c	Butter or margarine
1/3	c	Evaporated milk
1/2	c	Semisweet chocolate morsels
1/2	ts	Vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS

CHOCOLATE FROSTING
Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of
an electric mixer.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to mixture alternately with
milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.  Mix until just blended
after each addition.  Stir in vanilla.
Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.  Bake at 325F
for 1 hour and 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near center
comes out clean.  Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool
completely on a wire rack.  Spread with Chocolate Frosting, if desired.
Yield: one 10-inch cake.
  CHOCOLATE FROSTING:
Combine first 3 ingredients in a small saucepan; bring to a boil, and
boil 1 minute, stirring occasionally.  Stir in chocolate morsels and
vanilla.  Beat with a wooden spoon about 3 minutes or to desired spreading
consistency.  Yield: 1-1/4 cups.
Helen Dosier of North Carolina, in November, 1990 "Southern Living". Typos
by Jeff Pruett.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #196
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:06:36 -0500
From: pickell@cyberspc.mb.ca (S.Pickell)

A Message from our Provider:

“God wants to be your best friend”

God's sovereign election and man's exercise of responsibility in choosing Jesus Christ seem opposite and irreconcilable truths - and from our limited perspective they are opposite and irreconcilable. That is why so many earnest, well-meaning Christians throughout the history of the church have floundered trying to reconcile them. Since the problem cannot be resolved by our finite minds, the result is always to compromise one truth in favor of the other or to weaken both by trying to take a position somewhere between them. We should let the antimony remain, believing both truths completely and leaving the harmonizing of them to God.

John MacArthur