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  • What Is Truth? Why Are There So Many?
    Posted on Monday, January 1st, 2024 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, How do we evade truth, how to live ethically, John 18: 37-38, Pilate, truth, What is truth, Why are there so many truths, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain Definition of Truth Pilate famously asked, “What is truth” (John 18: 37-38). Webster defined truth as:: “relationship, conformity, or agreement with fact or reality or among true facts or propositions: the property in a conception, judgment, statement, proposition, belief, or opinion of being in accord with what is in fact or in necessity.” …[ read more ]

  • Life Lessons from the National Parks
    Posted on Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 | Tagged: book review, Christian guide to national parks, Life Lessons from the National Oaks, National Parks, Penny Musco

    by Carol McClain         Life Lessons from the National Parks Author: Penny Musco Genre: Nonfiction – Christian devotionals  “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.”—John Muir, The Yosemite, 1912 Whether …[ read more ]

  • Under Authority: Book Review
    Posted on Friday, October 6th, 2023

    Under Authority   Author: Kimalee Finelli Genre: Women’s Christian Fiction  Based on a true story, Under Authority is Kate Elliot’s unusual account of what occurred at Cross Independent Baptist Church in New England during her childhood and teen years. The pastor, Rhuttland Abbott—or the Reverend, as people referred to him—believed God had placed him behind …[ read more ]

  • Four Responses to Prayer. Which Fits You?
    Posted on Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 | Tagged: Carol McClain, Four responses to prayer, Matthew 8:23-27, Writing Redemption

    arol McClain        @carol_mcclain   My roofer-brother-in-law flew four hundred miles to my house to put on a new roof. As a single mom with only my salary as support, his help was critical. He had one day. Of course, that day threatened rain. The wind already picked up and promised to deliver what the weatherman predicted. This couldn’t …[ read more ]

  • Five Ways to Regain Gratitude
    Posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 1 Thes. 5:18, gratitude on July 4, Luke 6:38, Phil 4:19, Romans 6:7, Thomas Paine, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain        carol_mcclain My friend bought a vacation home on a beautiful lake. For years she’d marvel at her good fortune. Then time passed. It became a small, unremarkable house on a cul-de-sac of million-dollar homes. She lost the wonder. This year, though, she sat on her dock. Fireworks exploded down the cove. The cool …[ read more ]

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    • What to you gain by being meek?

      Carol McClain Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matt. 5: 5) At one time, I considered myself meek. I think I equated my yielding, ready-to-give-in nature as meek. As of late, I've seen all the places I've been arrogant: how I knew best how to write or edit or eat or exercise. (We won't get into politics). Wishy-washy isn't meek. As a matter of fact, two of the greatest men in the Bible are the only two who to whom this trait had been given. The first was Moses. Yep. You read that right. The man who confronted… ...[ full story ]

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