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Tagged: good works

Your Life Matters
Posted on Monday, April 8th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, cast your seed on the water, Ecclesiastes 11:1, God sees you, good works, Matthew 10:29, obedience, we matter, you make a difference, your life matters
Carol McClain @carol_mcclain Have you ever wondered if your life mattered? If you made a difference. I taught for over thirty years. Never was I nominated as teacher of the year. Maybe once someone put my name in for teacher of the month. Without accolades, life went on. Sometimes I overachieved as an instructor. Sometimes I …[ read more ]

Sin Is Like a Rock
Carol McClain @carol_mcclain The elders in my daughter’s church handed out rocks. These weren’t pretty, soothing objects like worry rocks or quartz or painted ones with happy messages or water-smoothed pebbles. Each was large enough to hold but oddly shaped and rough. The pastor instructed us to hold the stone throughout the service. Being the obsessively dutiful woman I am, I held this rough, craggy rock. What a pain in the palm! Throughout worship and the lifting of hands, all during the sermon and flipping Bible pages, this unwieldy thing distracted me. I could hold it and could lift it or… ...[ full story ]

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