Name: Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients: 1 1/2 c Plain flour; 1 ts Baking soda; 1/2 ts Salt; 1/2 ts Vanilla; 1/2 c Shortening; 1/2 c Brown sugar; 1/2 c White sugar; 1 Egg; 1/3 c Peanut butter

Why do any of us get upset or tense when confronted? Why do any of us activate our inner lawyer and rise to our own defense? Why do any of us turn the tables and remind the other person that we are not the only sinner in the room? Why do we argue about the facts or dispute the other person’s interpretation. We do all of these things because we are convinced in our hearts that we are more righteous that how than we are being portrayed in the moment of confrontation. Proud people don’t welcome loving warning, rebuke, confrontation, question, criticism, or accountability, because they don’t feel the need for it. And when they do fail, they are very good at erecting plausible reasons for what they said or did, given the stress of the situation or relationship in which it was done.

Paul David Tripp

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	c	Plain flour
1	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Vanilla
1/2	c	Shortening
1/2	c	Brown sugar
1/2	c	White sugar
1		Egg
1/3	c	Peanut butter

INSTRUCTIONS

Cream shortening, sugars and peanut butter. Add egg & vanilla. Beat well.
Stir in sifted dry ingredients. Shape into balls, a melon ball scooper is a
perfect size, and place on greased cookie sheet. Flatten with fork. Bake at
350    about 12 minutes.
I usually double the recipe because they get gone quickly. Hope you enjoy.
Posted to Recipe Archive - 30 Mar 97 by ted by: svannoy@InfoAve.Net on Mar
30, 97

A Message from our Provider:

“You can fool yourself. You can never fool God”

To concentrate on service and activity for God may often actively thwart our attaining of the true goal, God Himself. At first sight it seems heroic to fling our lives away in the service of God and of our fellows. We feel it is bound to mean more to Him than our experience of Him. Service seems so unselfish, whereas concentrating on our walk with God seems selfish and self-centered. But it is the very reverse. The things that God is most concerned about are our coldness of heart towards Himself and our proud, unbroken natures. Christian service of itself can, and so often does, leave our self-centered nature untouched… With those things hidden in our hearts, we have only to work alongside others, and find resentment, hardness, criticism, jealousy, and frustration issuing from our hearts. We think we are working for God, but the test of how little of our service for Him is revealed by our resentment or self-pity… We need to leave our lusting for ever-larger spheres of Christian service and concentrate on seeing God for ourselves and finding the deep answer for life in Him.

Roy Hession