Name: Butter-Chip Cookies
Ingredients: 1 c Butter; 1 c Powdered Sugar; 1/4 ts Salt; 1 ts Vanilla; 2 1/4 c Flour; 6 oz Semisweet Chocolate Chips; * see note; Powdered Sugar

When Paul says, “If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink,” he does not mean, “Let’s all become lechers.” He means, there is a normal, simple, comfortable, ordinary life of human delights that we may enjoy with no troubling thoughts of heaven or hell or sin or holiness or God – if there is no resurrection from the dead. And what stunned me about this train of thought is that many professing Christians seem to aim at just this, and call it Christianity. Paul did not see his relation to Christ as the key to maximizing his physical comforts and pleasures in this life. No, Paul’s relation to Christ was a call to choose suffering – a suffering that was beyond what would make atheism “meaningful” or “beautiful” or “heroic.” It was a suffering that would have been utterly foolish and pitiable to choose if there is no resurrection into the joyful presence of Christ… Judge for yourself. How many Christians do you know who could say, “The lifestyle I have chosen as a Christian would be utterly foolish and pitiable if there is no resurrection?”

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Baden	Cakes, And, Cookies	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Butter
1	c	Powdered Sugar
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla
2 1/4	c	Flour
6	oz	Semisweet Chocolate Chips; * see note
		Powdered Sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

* [I think smaller chips, or mini-M&M's, would be better, but regular will
work]
Cream butter and 1 cup powdered sugar until well blended. Gradually add
salt, vanilla and flour (mixture will be stiff). Stir in chocolate pieces.
Roll into 1-inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten balls
with fork. Bake at 350 F for 12 to 15 minutes until set but not brown.
While hot, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Remove to wire racks to cool.
[Chocolate Mousse and other Fabulous Chocolate Creations, by Betty Malisow
Potter, p. 17. ISBN 0-913703-11-7. Published 1986, New Boundary Designs
Inc., 1453 Park Road, Chanhassen MN 55317. Available by mail order.]
[I made these cookies, and found them very easy. The dough isn't sticky, so
rolling out the balls isn't a chore. They were a big hit when I brought
them to the club; they went quickly. The batch made two cookie-sheets full.
Next time I think I'll double the recipe.]
March 1995, Chaz Bade
NOTES : "These buttery cookies are light and melt in your mouth." Makes 25
Cookies
Recipe by: "C. Baden" <[email protected]>
Posted to brand-name-recipes by Barbra<[email protected]> on Feb 03, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Jesus: Because with God only perfection will do”

Satisfaction will never come if we claim to have God, but then quench our souls on the short-lived, inadequate pleasures of this world. These “thirst quenchers” are really spiritual poison and are condemned by our Lord. Through the Prophet Jeremiah, God said, “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jer. 2:13). Our only hope comes if we can “thirst” and “yearn” to drink from the living God. As Jesus said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink” (Jn. 7:37).

Randy Smith