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  • 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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    • 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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