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  • What Is Truth? Why Are There So Many?
    Posted on Monday, January 1st, 2024 | Filed under Blog | 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 ]

  • Four Responses to Prayer. Which Fits You?
    Posted on Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 | Filed under Blog | 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 ]

  • The Purpose of Suffering
    Posted on Monday, May 29th, 2023 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Peter 5:10, Carol McClain, how to make things work for good., Isaiah 48:10, Malachi 3:3, purpose of pain, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain I love stained glass. Whenever I post a picture, swarms of friends beg for lessons. They never count the cost. How to make stained glass:   Choose the glass. The process begins with a nice, but uninteresting, unrefined product. Take a sharp blade. Cut and break the glass according to the pattern. Be …[ read more ]

  • The Pain of Life Brings Beauty
    Posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 2 Cor 1:3-5, beauty from ashes, beauty from pain, Carol McClain, how we're like butterflies, Isaiah 61: 1-3, James 2: 1-4, the pain of life brings beauty, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain While hiking, my friend and I discovered these beautiful blue morpho swallowtails. Rarely do they hold still long enough for me to get beautiful pictures, but these three riveted themselves on their dining. That’s where the beauty ends. Nine times out of ten, what are these lovely butterflies–formerly ugly caterpillars who squish green …[ read more ]

  • Acceptance: Fifth Step in Conquering Grief
    Posted on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 5 stages of grief, acceptance of pain, acceptance--the fifth steep in Conquering Grief, Andrew Ripp, Carol McClain, five stages of grief, Matthew 5:4, Ps 30:5, Ps 34:18, The University of Washington, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain Ps. 34:18 “The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Recently a terrible accident happened at a Volkswagon plant in Chattanooga. A car somehow ran out of control and ploughed down three people. One died. Two are critical. One of the two critically injured people is …[ read more ]

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    • Christian–You Are Righteous, But Are You Merciful?

      Carol McClain Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matt. 5:7 Don Carson, a theologian and 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.” If I only knew then what I know now. I used to be able to point my fingers at others for not learning how to pull themselves out of the gutter. After all, I'd come from a rough and tumble upbringing where alcohol use (we were NOT drug addicts, thank you) was de rigueur. Poor and self-conscious… ...[ full story ]

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