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  • Celebrate Your Strengths: Skip the Drudgery
    Posted on Monday, September 12th, 2016 | Tagged: Carol McClain, celebrate your strengths, character counts, giftings, Gospel of Matthew, Matthew 11:30

    My yoke is easy and my burden light Mt. 11:30   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Don’t Do What You Hate Good deeds are good: but they don’t mean you have to do them. Work your area of strength. Have you ever been in a situation where you felt compelled (read condemned) into doing good works you …[ read more ]

  • What are your strengths? Three free tests to find out
    Posted on Monday, September 5th, 2016 | Tagged: ., 1 Cor. 12:4-6, Carol McClain, character counts, three tests to discover your strengths

    ž“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work” 1 Cor. 12: 4-6.   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain My Family My Mother, …[ read more ]

  • Perfectionism: The Original Sin?
    Posted on Monday, August 29th, 2016 | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, do nothing to be loved, Genesis 3:5, God's love, perfectionism, perfectionism the original sin, Psalm 18: 31-33

    For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect.He makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places. Ps. 18: 31-33 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain If others love us unconditionally? How could this man not love me unconditionally? I know you will find …[ read more ]

  • Imperfections Don’t Matter: Lessons from a Bad Solderer
    Posted on Monday, August 22nd, 2016 | Tagged: Carol McClain, character, character counts, Eccl. 3:11, flaws, imperfection, perfectionism, soldering, stained glass

    My daughter claimed this was my best piece ever. He has made everything beautiful in His time. Eccl. 3:11 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain With fear, I showed my teacher the stained-glass piece I needed help with. At a distance, it was gorgeous, but my soldering–the reason I took this class–needed work. She raved about its beauty. …[ read more ]

  • Stained Glass and Being Perfect
    Posted on Monday, August 8th, 2016 | Tagged: being perfect, Carol McClain, character counts, holiness, how to become holy, perfectionism, stained glass, stained glass and being perfect

    By one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. Heb. 10:14   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Stained Glass and Imperfection I confess. I’m an addict. The lighting is off, but my latest stained glass A couple of years ago, I discovered stained glass making. Now it’s my obsession. I love the …[ read more ]

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      Carol McClain Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 In my darkest hours, when my emotional health was at the lowest, I understood I needed Jesus. When we are "poor in spirit," the first Beatitude says, we can find heaven. (Read last week's post. Click here). However, once we have recognized we all sin and cannot redeem ourselves, we still must recognize our poverty of spirit. When we sin, when we're depressed, when our Christian witness is less than inspiring, we need to repent and turn back to Christ. There are probably… ...[ full story ]

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