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Praying the Perfect Prayer Is Easy
Posted on Monday, March 18th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, God intercedes for us, God knows our needs, God's will, how to pray, intercessionary prayer, Perfect Prayer, Pray the perfect prayer, prayer, Romans 8:26
Carol McClain @carol_mcclain With childlike faith, I decided I would write a novel about a paramedic. I naively researched the profession and assumed I had the correct information. I wasn’t so naive as to think it was perfect. During this time period, I wondered, too, if I was called to write. I belonged to a floundering critique group …[ read more ]

Your Past Can Be Forgiven: Rahab
@carol_mcclain Is your past unforgiveable? Definitely not. Consider Rahab, one of the ancestors of Jesus, mentioned in Matthew 1:5. She was a prostitute. No one chooses this lifestyle. In ancient Israel, women found few avenues of employment. If unmarried or widowed, they very often had to turn to prostitution in order to survive. Who wants to have non-stop sex with strangers? According to the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women: [caption id="attachment_2044" align="alignleft" width="200"] No one's fallen so low that God can't redeem.[/caption] "Rahab, who begins as triply marginalized—Canaanite, woman, and prostitute—moves to the center as bearer of a divine message… ...[ full story ]

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