Name: Cream Cheese Pie
Ingredients: 8 oz Cream cheese; 1 cn (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk (not evap); 1/4 c Lemon juice; 1 tb Vanilla; 1 9" graham cracker crust; Fresh strawberries; blueberries or whatever fruit you prefer (optional)

We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self. Indeed, what could be more ludicrous in a vast and glorious universe like this than a human being, on the speck called earth, standing in front of a mirror trying to find significance in his own self-image? It is a great sadness that this is the gospel of the modern world. The Christian Gospel is about 'the glory of Christ,' not about me. And when it is—in some measure—about me, it is not about my being made much of by God, but about God mercifully enabling me to enjoy making much of Him forever.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Fruits			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

8	oz	Cream cheese
1	cn	(14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk (not evap)
1/4	c	Lemon juice
1	tb	Vanilla
1		9" graham cracker crust
		Fresh strawberries; blueberries or whatever fruit you prefer (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

Let cream cheese set until room temperature. Beat with mixer until smooth.
Then add condensed milk, lemon juice and vanilla. Beat until all lumps are
gone. Pour into crust. Cover & refrigerate for at least two hours. Top with
fresh (or canned) fruit. It's ready to serve! Store in refrigerator.
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #184 by Tammy Miller <bebo@stc.net> on
Aug 08, 1997

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Some Reasons Baptists Do Not Baptize Infants: 1. In every New Testament command and instance of baptism the requirement of faith precedes baptism. So infants incapable of faith are not to be baptized. 2. There are no explicit instances of infant baptism in all the Bible. In the three “household baptisms” mentioned (household of Lydia, Acts 16:15; household of the Philippian jailer, Acts 16:30–33; household of Stephanus, 1 Corinthians 1:16) no mention is made of infants, and in the case of the Philippian jailer, Luke says explicitly, “They spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house” (Acts 16:32), implying that the household who were baptized could understand the Word. 3. Paul (in Colossians 2:12) explicitly defined baptism as an act done through faith: “…having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God.” In baptism you were raised up with Christ through faith – your own faith, not your parents’ faith. If it is not “through faith” – if it is not an outward expression of inward faith – it is not baptism. 4. The apostle Peter, in his first letter, defined baptism this way, “…not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 3:21). Baptism is “an appeal to God for a good conscience.” It is an outward act and expression of inner confession and prayer to God for cleansing, that the one being baptized does, not his parents. 5. When the New Testament church debated in Acts 15 whether circumcision should still be required of believers as part of becoming a Christian, it is astonishing that not once in that entire debate did anyone say anything about baptism standing in the place of circumcision. If baptism is the simple replacement of circumcision as a sign of the new covenant, and thus valid for children as well as for adults, as circumcision was, surely this would have been the time to develop the argument and so show that circumcision was no longer necessary. But it is not even mentioned.

John Piper