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  • Want the Kingdom of Heaven?
    Posted on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, beatitudes, Carol McClain, Exodus 20: 21, Kingdom of Heaven; how to find the kingdom of heaven; why do the poor in spirit find the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 5: 3, poor in spirit, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5: 3 My Christian brother convinced my sister and me to go to church with him when my grandmother died. After all, death is one time non-believers believe they should go to church. For me, that day turned my …[ read more ]

  • Cultural Identity Applies to Christians Too
    Posted on Monday, October 6th, 2025 | Tagged: Carol McClain, cultural identity, discrimination against Christians, don't hide your light under a bowl, indigenous concepts, is 5:20, matt 5: 14-16, Writing Redemption

    by Carol McClain You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.  In the same way, let your light shine …[ read more ]

  • Ten Ways to be Filled with the Holy Spirit
    Posted on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

      @carol_mcclain “Don’t be drunk with wine, be filled with the Spirit!” 1 Cor.5:18 According to John Piper, how do we get drunk with wine? We drink it. Lots of it. So how do we get drunk with the Holy Spirit? Immerse yourself in God. Drink in lots of Him. Read your Scriptures. Pray. Sing Psalms …[ read more ]

  • How to Awaken Amazement
    Posted on Monday, January 13th, 2025 | Tagged: Benefits of Living for today, Carol McClain, Clyde Kilby, Ecclesiastes 3: 4-5, how to live life with amazement, John Piper, joy in sorrow, Matt 6:34, Writing Redemption

      “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” Matt. 6:34, ESV. Life is hard. If you look around, there’s not a thing created that hasn’t been worn down by this earth. Rocks erode, bugs eat plants–find a tree without leaves …[ read more ]

  • Lost Joy Belittles Christ
    Posted on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 | Tagged: John Piper, joy, joy in Christ, mourning for sinners, Philippians 3:1

    @carol_mcclain “If our joy is lost, Christ is belittled, and what then has love to offer the beloved sinner?” John Piper, Taste and See, pg. 4 In Philippi, the authorities locked Paul and Silas up in prison because they set a slave girl free from demons. Beaten, and whipped, the two were locked in a prison. …[ read more ]

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    • To Inherit the World, Are You Prepared to Meet the Cost? Consider the Christmas Story

      Carol McClain Matt. 5:5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." The meek. We think of them as spineless milquetoasts. Unassertive and too timid to achieve anything. Although not mentioned as meek, consider Mary, especially in this Christmas season. As a teenage girl betrothed--essentially married in all but consummation--an angel appears to her. We, of course, know what the angel proclaimed. The only hesitation Mary has is that she is a virgin, so how can she be pregnant? Once she accepts her destiny, the consequences begin. As a pregnant teen, everyone thinks she's been licentious and unfaithful… ...[ full story ]

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