Name: Hamentashen/pie Crust Dough
Ingredients: 2 Eggs; 1/2 c Oil; 3/4 c Sugar; 1/2 ts Baking powder; 1/4 c Orange juice; 1 Grated orange rind; 2 1/2 Tp 3 cups flour; 1 lb Prepared mohn filling; (poppy seed) -or-; 1 lb Lekvar; (apple or prune butter) -or-; Strawberry or apricot preserves

We Christians often act like heathen. We preach that it is wonderful to be a Christian, that Heaven is to be gained and Hell shunned. Then when one of our loved ones dies, we act as if it were all a lie. Our actions say that this world is better than the next, that death is a tragedy, and we ask querulously in our unbelief, Why? Why? Why?… Shame on us! When we weep and lament at the death of our loved ones [beyond God’s-honoring grief], we often make void our testimony, cast reflection upon the Bible and irreverence on Heaven. For the Christian, death is not a tragedy but a glorious promotion – not the sad end, but the glorious beginning.

John Rice

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains	Jewish		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2		Eggs
1/2	c	Oil
3/4	c	Sugar
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/4	c	Orange juice
1		Grated orange rind
2 1/2		Tp 3 cups flour
1	lb	Prepared mohn filling; (poppy seed) -or-
1	lb	Lekvar; (apple or prune butter) -or-
		Strawberry or apricot preserves

INSTRUCTIONS

FILLINGS
Mix all well. Add flour as necessary to make smooth elastic dough. Divide
dough and roll out on floured surface to about 1/8" thick. Use a round
cookie cutter or glass to cut out a 3" circle. Fill with 1/2 -2/3 teaspoon
of filling in middle of circle.
TO SHAPE: Lift up right and left sides, pinch together.Bring bottom flap up
to center to meet 2 sides. Pinch edges together. Place on greased cookie
sheet 1" apart. Bake in preheated 350* oven for 20 minutes.
FILLINGS: 1 pound prepared mohn filling (poppy seed) or 1 pound lekvar
(apple or prune butter) or strawberry or apricot preserves
Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest Volume 98 #015 by "Aliza Blizinsky"
<alizab@hotmail.com> on Jan 08, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Forgive your enemies – it messes with their heads!”

The preacher's duty is not to 'get decisions.' His duty is to proclaim the good news and exhort men and women to go to Christ. This is the means which God uses to save. We preach, and God Himself uses the word preached to 'get the decision.' (What a woefully inadequate term that is! Saving faith is so much more than a 'decision.' It is running for rescue!) These roles must never be confused… The role of the preacher is to exhort men and women to faith in Christ. That is all. And that is enough. God is well able to do everything else.

Fred Zaspel

The first mark of a healthy church is expositional preaching. It is not only the first mark; it is far and away the most important of them all, because if you get this one right, all of the others should follow… If you get the priority of the Word established, then you have in place the single most important aspect of the church’s life, and growing health is virtually assured, because God has decided to act by His Spirit through His Word… The congregation’s commitment to the centrality of the Word coming from the front, from the preacher, the one specially gifted by God and called to that ministry, is the most important thing you can look for in a church.

Mark Dever