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  • Learn Your Weakness: Work With Them
    Posted on Monday, August 21st, 2017 | Tagged: character tests, God's love, golden retrievers, people pleasing, perfection, writing repemption

    by: By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain Friends started a small group with one of those fun character quizzes. In this one, our characteristics were symbolized by cute animals: lion, otter, beaver, golden retrievers. I so wanted to be a beaver. They were industrious. Got things done. All business. That’s how I saw myself. Shockingly, I came up as …[ read more ]

  • God Never Hurries: And It Benefits Us
    Posted on Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, God doesn't hurry, God Never Hurries: And it Benefits Us, God's promises are sure, Habakkuk 2:3, Is. 40:31, wait on God

    For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. Habakkuk 2:3 By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain Have you ever known God to be in a rush for anything? I’m not asking facetiously. Scripturally, He waited …[ read more ]

  • Like It or Not, Some Sins Are Relative
    Posted on Monday, July 10th, 2017 | Tagged: Uncategorized

    For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving … 1 Tim. 4:4 By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain A friend of mine hated  rock music. In his youth, the lyrics led him to drug use and immorality. As a Christian, God convicted him. This form of music drove him …[ read more ]

  • House Cleaning and Sin: How We Justify Our Self-Hatred
    Posted on Monday, June 26th, 2017 | Tagged: 1 John 1:9, Carol McClain, character counts, How we justify our self-hatred, James 5:16-17, self-hatred, self-loathing, sin

    Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. James 5:16 By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain We invited friends over to the house at the last minute. I looked over my home and knew I only had time for what I called …[ read more ]

  • Celebrate Your Weirdness: You are wonderful, no matter what you think
    Posted on Monday, June 19th, 2017 | Tagged: Carol McClain, Celebrate your weirdnes: you are wonderful, character counts, no matter what you think, Ps 139: 14

    I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Ps 139:14 By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain Great people  have what had been considered oddities. President Obama was left-handed. My brother Art is left-handed. Back when we were in grade school, left-handedness was considered a trait to be corrected. …[ read more ]

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    • How Can You See God?

      Carol McClain "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Matt. 5:7 I sometimes think this Beatitude dovetails with the first of the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20: 2: Thou shalt not have any gods besides me. And commandment number one segues into number two: do not make any graven image. In today's world, we are making God in our own image. We decide we're pagan or non-heterosexual or not "in love" with our spouse any longer. We tell ourselves our god is fine with this. Our truth supports our feelings. We forget that truth is a… ...[ full story ]

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