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  • Colin Kaepernick–Symbol of Hypocrisy
    Posted on Monday, September 9th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, Colin Kaepernick, ethical manufacturing, hypocrisy, manufacturing, Matthew 23:3, Nike, Pharisees, slavery, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain       carol_mcclain For the Fourth of July, Nike apparel was going to roll out a new shoe featuring the Betsy Ross flag. Kaepernick, a well-known football star and social activist protested. The flag symbolised slavery and a despicable time of our history. Nike withdrew the design. On the outside, his protest looked good. Our …[ read more ]

  • Sin and the Stockholm Syndrome
    Posted on Monday, August 5th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Bible, Carol McClain, Galatians 5:1, Matthew 6:24, Patty Hearst, sin, society, Stockholm syndrome, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain  carol_mcclain On Feb. 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Two months later, authorities caught her robbing the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco with her captors. How did a young woman with no history of protests or rebellion, one who came from an affluent, conservative family suddenly become a bank robber?   A …[ read more ]

  • American Gratitude: Don’t Let It Go Extinct
    Posted on Monday, July 8th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 5 ways to regain gratitude, American gratitude, Carol McClain, gratitude, thankfulness, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain        carol_mcclain My friend bought a vacation home on a beautiful lake. For years she’d marvel about 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 …[ read more ]

  • What Sin’s the Worst?
    Posted on Monday, June 17th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, Micah 7: 18-19, Romans 2:1-3, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain       carol_mcclain What we believe is a major transgression is not necessarily God’s opinion. What sin is the worst? Before I got saved, a pastor told be because I was divorced, I could never marry again. It didn’t matter that I was unsaved and then redeemed. It didn’t matter that my ex cheated on …[ read more ]

  • Proof of God
    Posted on Tuesday, June 11th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain

    By: Carol McClain      carol_mcclain “Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not…created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of wildflower.” Harvey Broome, Naturalist. And …[ 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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