Carol McClain The world is hungry for happiness, and it is starving. Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds prosperity and honor. Pr. 21:21  If we look at the world around us today, we see the truth of the above. Everyone touts, “I’ll living my truth.” Like Pilate, who asked, “What is truth?” they set about …[ read more ]

Carol McClain Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy. Matthew 5:7 A segment of our society keeps saying we need to help adults who were raised in tough circumstances. Their ancestors had been abused  or their parents had been reprobates. Their pasts have dictated their future. They are innocent. As a Christian, I’m …[ read more ]

Matt. 5:7: Delight in graciously helping others knowing God will graciously help you. Carson, co-founder of Gospel Coalition, writes: “Mercy is a loving response prompted by the misery and helplessness of the one on which love is to be showered.” Mercy flows directly out of the previous four Beatitudes (we know ourselves to be poor …[ read more ]

Carol McClain Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Matt. 5:6 In my twenties, every church ever created came knocking at my door. The ubiquitous Jehovah’s Witnesses told me their path was the only one that would let me find God. I think only if I knocked on doors …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain:    @carol_mcclain In 1937 King Edward VIII of England gave up his title and power and glory for love. He loved a sinner–a divorced American. Worse than being actually divorced, Wallis Simpson was still married but in the process of divorce. Wallis Simpson sympathized with the Nazis. Edward loved her, so he sacrificed everything for her. For an American, this …[ read more ]