Frosted Heart Cookies – We Love God!

What irony that sinners consider the greatest problem they face in this world to be the problem of pain. The ultimate insult against God is that man thinks he has a problem of pain. Man, who deserves to be plunged into hell at this moment, and is indescribably fortunate that he is breathing normally, complains about unhappiness. Instead of falling on his knees in the profoundest possible gratitude that God holds back His wrath and infinite fury, the sinner shakes his fist in heaven’s face and complains against what he calls “pain.” When he receives his due, he will look back on his present condition as paradisiacal. What he now calls misery, he will then consider exquisite pleasure. The most severe torment anyone has ever known in this life will seem like heaven in comparison with one moment of the full fury of the divine Being.

John Gerstner

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		20-oz. Pillsbury
		Refrigerated Sugar
		Cookies
		well chilled
1/3	c	Powdered sugar
1	T	Flour
2	c	Powdered sugar
1/8	t	Salt
1/4	c	Margarine or butter
		softened
1/4	c	Shortening
2	T	Milk, up to 4
1/2	t	Vanilla
		Food color
		dozen cookies
19		The Pillsbury Company

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat oven to 350 F. Remove half of cookie dough from wrapper;
refrigerate remaining dough until needed. Combine 1/3 cup powdered
sugar and flour; sprinkle half of sugar mixture onto work surface.
Coat sides of half roll of well-chilled dough with sugar mixture.  Roll
out to about 1/8-inch thickness. Cut with 2-inch heart-shaped  cookie
cutter dipped in sugar mixture. Place 2 inches apart on  ungreased
cookie sheets.  Bake at 350 F. for 7 to 9 minutes or until light golden
brown. Cool 1  minute; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely.
Repeat with  remaining half of dough.  In medium bowl, combine all
frosting ingredients except food color  beat until smooth and of
desired spreading consistency. Add desired  amount of food color; beat
well. Pipe or spread on cooled cookies;  allow frosting to dry. Store
cookies in single layer in covered  container.  Posted to FOODWINE
Digest 11 Feb 97 by Ana Kurland <akur@LOC.GOV> on  Feb 11, 1997.

A Message from our Provider:

“Life begins with Jesus”

[The devil] is always “going about as a lion seeking whom he may devour.” An unseen enemy, he is always near us, about our path and about our bed, and spying out all our ways. A “murderer and a liar” from the beginning, he labors night and day to cast us down to hell. Sometimes by leading into superstition, sometimes by suggesting infidelity, sometimes by one kind of tactics and sometimes by another, he is always carrying on a campaign against our souls… The strong man armed will never be kept out of our hearts without a daily battle.

J.C. Ryle

Why is God justified in having wrath toward you if you have not come to Christ on His terms? 1. Because you are a sinner by nature (Eph. 2:3; Rom. 3:10; Ps. 51:5). 2. Because you have amassed a huge volume of sins. 3. Because you have committed the greatest crime possible, against the highest existing authority (Mk. 12:30). 4. Because of your persistence in sinning against God. 5. Because you have spurned the greatest love gift ever [Jesus Christ]. 6. Because you have spurned this gift even though you have knowledge of Christ and the way of salvation (Mt. 11:21-24). 7. Because you have been unwilling to admit your desperate need (Jn. 9:39-40). 8. Because you have been proud of your good works, though dependence on them damns you (Gal. 2:21; Eph. 2:8-9; Gal. 5:4). 9. Because you have not repented even though He has been kind to you (Rom. 2:4-5). 10. Because you have stubbornly refused to yield to God and His way of salvation in Jesus Christ to the last possible moment—now!

Jim Elliff