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  • Blindly Believing: Fixed Notions
    Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Annie Dillard, Carol McClain, coronavirus, COVID-19, God's glory, God's love, God's promises, John 9: 1-12, Luke 13:4, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, strange insect behavior, The Fixed, the tower of Siloam, Writing Redemption

    by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN We, like the insect world of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, have fixed ideas. Whether they help us or not, we learned certain things, believe them and follow them blindly. It makes us not much better than bugs. Here’re some of the crazy things insects do: The FIXED notions of Chapter 4: “The Fixed.” …[ read more ]

  • Benefits from Suffering: Truth of God’s Love For You
    Posted on Thursday, February 13th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, benefits from suffering, benefits of adversity, Carol McClain, Does God love me?, God loves you, God's love, God's love in a hard life, how adversity shows God's love, James 4: 1-2, Psalm 30:5, Romans 5:4, romans 8: 35-39, Suffering and God's Love, Writing Redemption

    By Carol McClain “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask” James 4: 1-2. …[ read more ]

  • What Is Sin?
    Posted on Thursday, February 6th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, God loves you, God's love, How do know God Loves you, Jer. 31:3, Jeremiah 31:3, Jermemiah 29:11, John 3:16, Matthew 7:7, Ps. 34:8, Psalm 34:8, Rom. 5:3, Song 4:7, Suffering and God's Love, Writing Redemption

    By Carol McClain @carol_mcclain Sin. Oh, our God is a big meany, you think. “Don’t do this. Don’t do that.” We can never do anything that’s fun. Sin proves God doesn’t love us. But what exactly is sin? Is it a list of do nots given willy-nilly by a capricious diety? No. When you consider sin, …[ read more ]

  • Suffering and God’s Love
    Posted on Monday, December 30th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 1 Pe 5:10, 1 Peter 4:12-17, Carol McClain, God loves you, God's love, How do know God Loves you, Jer. 31:3, Jeremiah 31:3, John 3:16, Matthew 7:7, Ps. 34:8, Psalm 34:8, Rom. 5:3, Suffering and God's Love, Writing Redemption

    By Carol McClain @carol_mcclain God’s love surrounds us when blessings flow like glitter at a party. No one would be naive, though, to believe if we love and serve God we would never suffer. We need only look at our lives and realize it exists. How do we know God loves us even when we suffer? …[ read more ]

  • How To Know God Loves You
    Posted on Monday, December 23rd, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, God loves you, God's love, How do know God Loves you, Jer. 31:3, Jeremiah 31:3, John 3:16, Ps. 34:8, Psalm 34:8, Writing Redemption

    By Carol McClain @carol_mcclain “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16. Years ago God I learned a valuable lesson. I love tomatoes, and I hoard the the end of summer bounty until the last one …[ read more ]

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    • Ten Ways to be Filled with the Holy Spirit

        @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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