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  • Four Hints You Are Religious Rather Than Spiritual
    Posted on Monday, April 17th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 4 hints you are religious rather than spiritual, Carol McClain, character counts, faith, faith/works, filthy rags, Is 64:6, spirituality

      All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. Is. 64:6   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain For most of my Christian life, I belong to a lively church that …[ read more ]

  • No Matter How Small–YOU Change the World
    Posted on Monday, April 10th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 Cor. 12:17-19, Carol McClain, character counts, no matter how small--you change the world, perfectionism, phacelia, the gifts of the body of Christ, The Poison We Drink, you are perfect just the way you are

    If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.  If they were all one member, where would the body be? 1 Cor. 12: 17-19 Lin is …[ read more ]

  • Strength in Weakness: Lessons from Phacelias
    Posted on Monday, April 3rd, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, Great Smoky Mountains, Heb. 10:25, Lev. 26:8, not good to be alone, phacelia, strength in numbers, strength in weakness: lessons from the phacelias

         not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. Heb. 10:25   And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. Lev. …[ read more ]

  • Four Ways You Are Beautiful: God’s Wildflower
    Posted on Monday, March 27th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: antennaria solitaria, Carol McClain, character counts, Ecc 3:11, four ways you are beautiful, God's wildflowers, pussytoes

    He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Eccl. 3:11 You ARE Beautiful: A Wildflower in God’s Kingdom By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain   Looking out on Cades Cove off Rich Mountain Loop Three friends and I spend as …[ read more ]

  • Your Ways–Not Everyone’s
    Posted on Monday, March 20th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 Cor. 7: 17, 2 Cor. 3:17, Carol McClain, character counts, convictions, Gal. 5:19-21, sin, values, Your ways--not everyone's

    Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches. 1 Cor. 7:17 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Neil and I sat in a little Italian restaurant in Spain. The waiter brought out a complimentary aperitif. Drunkenness is …[ read more ]

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        @carol_mcclain "Don't be drunk with wine, be filled with the Spirit!" 1 Cor.5:18 According to John Piper, how do we get drunk with wine? We drink it. Lots of it. So how do we get drunk with the Holy Spirit? Immerse yourself in God. Drink in lots of Him. Read your Scriptures. Pray. Sing Psalms and hymns and contemporary Christian music. Listen to edifying Christian stations. Avoid our entertainment that celebrates sinful behavior--alcohol, sex, foul language. Hang out with practicing, like-minded Christians. Go to church. Take notes on the sermon. Look around this world and see the glory God… ...[ full story ]

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