Name: No Bake Oatmeal Candy Cookies
Ingredients: 2 c Sugar; 1 Cube margarine; 3 c Instant oatmeal; 1/2 c Chopped nuts; 3 tb Cocoa; 1/2 c Milk; 1 ts Vanilla; 1/2 c Raisins

On the one hand, Christianity is the most exclusive religion imaginable. It insists that belief in Jesus Christ is absolutely necessary for salvation. Jesus is the only way. You must go to Him to get eternal life. On the other hand, Christianity is the most inclusive religion possible because it makes salvation accessible to everyone. Salvation is offered for all people through one Person. Whoever believes in Him will not perish. Anyone who receives or believes in Jesus will live forever with God. There are no racial, social, intellectual, or economic criteria that prevent anyone from joining God’s family. One of the problems with the other religions of the world is that they all smack of elitism… Only Christianity offers salvation to everyone as a free gift.

Philip Graham Ryken

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Sugar
1		Cube margarine
3	c	Instant oatmeal
1/2	c	Chopped nuts
3	tb	Cocoa
1/2	c	Milk
1	ts	Vanilla
1/2	c	Raisins

INSTRUCTIONS

(Victoria Grande)
Cook sugar, cocoa, margarine and milk to a rolling boil. Cook for 2
minutes. Remove from stove and add oatmeal, vanilla, nuts nad raisins. Stir
well and drip by teaspoonful on waxed paper.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 25 Feb 97 by "Maria A. Ladd"
<decolores.studio@JUNO.COM> on Feb 16, 1997.

A Message from our Provider:

“Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts. #Andrew Murray”

Surely Paul could have made the gospel more palatable – and less dangerous – by saying it was about something else. Something cleaner and less ridiculous than the cross. Something more glorious. Less disgusting. He didn’t do that, though. “I decided,” Paul said, “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). In the face of the worst cultural prejudice imaginable, he fixed the entire gospel squarely and immovably on the fact that Jesus was tacked to a stauros and left to die. If he had been trying to find a surefire way to turn first-century people off from his “good news,” he couldn’t have done better than that! So why did he do it? It’s simple. He did it because he knew that leaving the cross out, or running past it with a glance, or making it peripheral to the gospel, or allowing anything else to displace it at the center of the gospel would make it, finally, no gospel at all.

Greg Gilbert