Name: Linzer Coconut Squares
Ingredients: 1/2 c Butter or margarine; cut in chunks; 3 tb Sugar; 1 Egg; 1 1/4 c All-purpose flour; 1/4 ts Salt if butter or margarine is unsalted; 2 Eggs; 1/2 c Sugar; 2 2/3 c Flaked coconut; approximately; 1/3 c Raspberry preserves

Here's the problem: when every sin is seen as the same, we are less likely to fight any sins at all. Why should I stop sleeping with my girlfriend when there will still be lust in my heart? Why pursue holiness when even one sin in my life means I'm Osama bin Hitler in God's eyes? Again, it seems humble to act as if no sin is worse than another, but we lose the impetus for striving and the ability to hold each other accountable when we tumble down the slip-and-slide of moral equivalence. All of a sudden the elder who battles the temptation to take a second look at the racy section of the Land's End catalog shouldn't dare exercise church discipline on the young man fornicating with reckless abandon. When we can no longer see the different gradations among sins and sinners and sinful nations, we have not succeeded in respecting our own badness; we've cheapened God's goodness. If our own legal system does not treat all infractions in the same way, surely God knows that some sins are more heinous than others. If we can spot the difference, we'll be especially eager to put to death those sins which are most offensive to God.

Kevin DeYoung

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Cookie	36	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Butter or margarine; cut in chunks
3	tb	Sugar
1		Egg
1 1/4	c	All-purpose flour
1/4	ts	Salt if butter or margarine is unsalted
2		Eggs
1/2	c	Sugar
2 2/3	c	Flaked coconut; approximately
1/3	c	Raspberry preserves

INSTRUCTIONS

CRUST
FILLING
Cream butter with sugar, using electric mixer. Add egg and beat until
thoroughly mixed. Add flour and salt and beat at low speed until a dough
forms. Shape dough into a flattened block. Press and roll into an ungreased
baking pan. A 9-inch pan is specified but since most square pans are
smaller, a rectangular pan that comes close to the 81-square inch surface
of the 9-inch square, perhaps a 10-1/2x7-1/2 inch pan, can be used. Chill
dough about 1 hour.
Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes or longer, just until lightly
browned.
While crust bakes, beat eggs well. Gradually beat in sugar. Continue
beating until thick and light in color. Fold in coconut. Remove crust from
oven. Lower (?) temperature to 375 degrees.
Spread preserves evenly over crust to within 1/4 inch of edges. Carefully
spread coconut mixture over preserves.
Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool. Cut into
squares or bars. Yields 3 dozen 1-1/2 inch square cookies.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which contained
lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc.  Downloaded from Glen's MM
Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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When Charles Spurgeon was asked how these two grand, biblical doctrines could be reconciled, he responded as a real heir of the Puritans: “I didn't know that friends needed reconciliation.” He went on to compare these two doctrines to the rails of a track upon which Christianity runs. Just as the rails of a train, which run parallel to each other, appear to merge in the distance, so the doctrines of God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility, which seem separate from each other in this life, will merge in eternity. The Puritans would wholeheartedly concur. Our task, they said, is not to force their merging in this life but to keep them in balance and to live accordingly. We must thus strive for experiential Christianity that does justice both to God’s sovereignty and to our responsibility.

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