"m&m’s"â® Brownie Turtle Cookies

Discipline with dignity, then, involves not only structure that is set up to see to it that goals are reached. That is necessary, but it also considers the personal conviction of the child to do what God says to be even more vital. He was made in the image of God, and he must be reached in his heart with God’s Word. It is this message that speaks of a loving Lord who came and gave Himself for His people which first must touch our children’s hearts, bringing them to repentance and faith. Parents must lead them to repentance, lead them to conviction of sin, and bring them to the Savior. And then they must continue to show them what He wants and continue to motivate them, not just with the rod, but also by the cross.

Jay Adams

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Eggs, Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	oz	Unsweetened baking chocolate
1/3	c	Solid vegetable shortening
1	c	Granulated sugar
1/2	t	Vanilla extract
2		Eggs
1 1/4	c	All-purpose flour
1/2	t	Baking powder
1/2	t	Salt
1	c	Pecan halves
1	c	M&MsÂ® milk chocolate mini
		baking bits divided
1	c	Prepared chocolate frosting

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to350Ã¸F. Lightly grease cookie sheets; set aside. Heat
chocolate and shortening in2-quart sauce pan over low heat, stirring
constantly, until melted; remove from heat. Mix in sugar, vanilla and
eggs. Blend in flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in 2/3 cup
"M&M's"(r) Milk Chocolate Mini Baking Bits. For each cookie, arrange  3
pecan halves, with ends almost touching at center, on prepared  cookie
sheets. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto center of each  group
of pecans; mound the dough slightly. Bake 8 to 10 minutes just  until
set; do not over bake. Immediately remove cookies to wire racks  to
cool completely. Top each cookie with frosting; press remaining
"M&M's"(r) Milk Chocolate Mini Baking Bits into frosting to create
turtle shell..  Notes: These chewy little turtles are as fun to eat as
they are to  make! MAKES ABOUT 2 1/2 DOZEN COOKIES  Recipe by: Mars
Recipe by 1996 Mars, Incorporated Posted to  brand-name-recipes by
Barbra<barbra@pipeline.com> on Feb 03, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“God doesn’t want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives. #R.C. Sproul”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 2530 Calories From Fat: 1004 Total Fat: 119.1g Cholesterol: 372mg Sodium: 1567.5mg Potassium: 1230.5mg Carbohydrates: 352.8g Fiber: 24.1g Sugar: 205.5g Protein: 46g

[Quietism] asserts that the Christian is to be passive (quiet) in the process of spiritual growth and let God do everything. According to quietist teaching, the Christian must exert no energy or effort in the process whatsoever, for feeble human effort only hinders the working of God’s power. Quietists believe Christians must simply surrender fully to the Holy Spirit (also called “yielding,” “dying to self,” “crucifying oneself,” “mortifying the flesh,” or “placing one’s life on the altar”). The Spirit then moves in and lives a life of victory through us, and Christ literally replaces us (“it is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me” – Gal. 2:20). In its extreme variety, quietism is a spiritual passivism in which God becomes wholly responsible for the believer’s behavior, and the believer feels he must never exert personal effort to pursue righteous living. Quietists have popularized the phrases, “Let go and let God,” and “I can’t; He can.”

John MacArthur