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  • Religion and Potatoes: Six Differences Between Religion and Faith
    Posted on Monday, April 24th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, faith, faith/works, Mark 7:15, religion, spirituality

    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 ]

  • 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 ]

  • 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 ]

  • Joseph: Christmas’s Exemplar of Faith–James 2:20
    Posted on Monday, December 21st, 2015 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Christmas, faith/works, James 2:20, Joseph, the Nativity

     “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 ]

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    • Why Christians Are Hated

      By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain Last week, a reader commented that no matter what we do, the lost will despise Christians. He was right. 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you" John 15: 18-19. The rule of Bible study taught to me early in my walk is to not rely on one Scripture for your belief. When… ...[ full story ]

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