Turtle Bites

I made these for Care Group last week. They're so yummy. We normally make them during Christmas time.

Turtle Bites

Caramel Squares

Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

Pecans

Cover a baking sheet with wax paper. Grease the wax paper with cooking spray. Melt your caramel, adding the slightest amount of water. Individually dip the pecans into the caramel, so that most of the nut is covered. Place each dipped pecan onto your greased wax paper. Once the pan is full, place it in the freezer for about 8 minutes or so, allowing the caramel to mostly harden. Then melt your chocolate. Dip the caramel pecans into the chocolate, completely covering the nut. Place the pecans back onto the wax paper. Again, once the pan is full, place it in the freezer for about 8 minutes or so. The chocolate should be hardened. Keep in frig (in Ziploc bag) until serving. This allows the candy to stay mostly hard, but you wont' chip a tooth on it. :)

Sweet Assurance

I was reading these verses this morning and was freshly encouraged. What a kind and loving God I serve! My hope and my peace are in Him and Him alone!

"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4:4-7

"God's impossible commands are always wrapped up in the promises of the Gospel." -Jim Britt

Some More Editing

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Lovin' Fee

So, I just bought my first Fee album. Yeah, I know... some of you are probably wondering what's taken me so long. Oh well. I LOVE We Shine!!! I had so much fun worshipping my God while driving down the road the other day. The lyrics just proclaim God's greatness, glory and holiness. Lookin' for music that's pure praise and focuses your heart on your Savior? Try this one!

Day with the Rawlings Kids

The singles painted Matt & Julie's house this past Saturday. Julie and I took the kids out for several hours while the painting craziness was going on at home. We hung out at the McDonald's playground, stopped by a couple of stores and went to the Hispanic Heritage Festival at the Greenville library downtown. It was a very full day, but lots of fun!

Ecstatic Rejoicing!

"What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus." Romans 6:1-11 (ESV Bible)

"The amazing truths of passing through the waters of judgment safely, of dying and rising with Christ, and of having our sins washed away, are truths of momentous and eternal proportion and ought to be an occasion for giving great glory and praise to God." -Wayne Grudem