There is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man. Mark 7:15   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Neil, bless his heart, loves potatoes. Yuck. No meal is complete without the spuds. Have I said yuck, yet? Every …[ read more ]

  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 ]

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 ]

 “But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless” James 2:20?  I love Christmas carols . In them we celebrate Jesus and Mary and angels and shepherds.  We exalt stars and lambs and little drummer boys. Magi, Eastern astrologers, even make the list.However, I’m hard pressed to think of one carol that mentions Joseph …[ read more ]