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  • God Is Love: What Does That Mean For Us?
    Posted on Monday, July 11th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 John 4:16, Carol McClain, character counts, God is love: What does that mean for us?, John 17:24, perfectionism

    And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.1 John 4:16 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Two years ago my daughter discovered what she thought was menopause wasn’t. A pregnancy test delivered the news that baby number three would …[ read more ]

  • Three People to Blame When Saying No
    Posted on Monday, July 4th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, Ecclesiastes 3, Epistle to the Ephesians 2:8-9, Grace, obedience, saying no, three people to blame when saying no, works

    8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain   Friends called my daughter. Being a good mother, I understood her need for privacy, so I washed dishes while I listened. (I …[ read more ]

  • How To Know If It’s God’s Perfect Will
    Posted on Monday, June 27th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 Cor. 12:18, Carol McClain, character counts, God's Perfect Will, Spiritual Gifts

    Neil made this guitar with Dave Nichols– a guitar builder for Gibson Guitars But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. I Cor. 12:18 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain   How this recovering perfectionist envies her husband, Neil. He plays bass and loves …[ read more ]

  • God Is Your Friend: 5 Qualities of Good Friends
    Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 5 qualities of a good friend, Carol McClain, character counts, friends, friendship, God is our friend, perfectionism

    13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:13-14 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain I’ve recently moved to a new state–one foreign in all ways to New York where I’ve lived my entire life. One of the first things on our …[ read more ]

  • How To Be God’s Friend
    Posted on Monday, June 13th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, faith/works, how to be a friend of God, marriage, perfectionism

    13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:13-14 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Sometimes I think I should have been a lawyer, I can find the loophole in anything. As a recovering perfectionist, the last part of John 15:14 drove …[ read more ]

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      Matt. 5:7: Delight in graciously helping others knowing God will graciously help you. Carson, co-founder of Gospel Coalition, writes: “Mercy is a loving response prompted by the misery and helplessness of the one on which love is to be showered.” Mercy flows directly out of the previous four Beatitudes (we know ourselves to be poor and needy, hungering for righteousness.) Mercy is one of the richest words in Hebrew tradition. One of the key qualities of God, lovingkindness, generosity to the weak and helpless, continued love for people even when they’re unfaithful. How much mercy you show is the result… ...[ full story ]

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