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  • How to Awaken Amazement
    Posted on Monday, January 13th, 2025 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Benefits of Living for today, Carol McClain, Clyde Kilby, Ecclesiastes 3: 4-5, how to live life with amazement, John Piper, joy in sorrow, Matt 6:34, Writing Redemption

      “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” Matt. 6:34, ESV. Life is hard. If you look around, there’s not a thing created that hasn’t been worn down by this earth. Rocks erode, bugs eat plants–find a tree without leaves …[ read more ]

  • Lost Joy Belittles Christ
    Posted on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: John Piper, joy, joy in Christ, mourning for sinners, Philippians 3:1

    @carol_mcclain “If our joy is lost, Christ is belittled, and what then has love to offer the beloved sinner?” John Piper, Taste and See, pg. 4 In Philippi, the authorities locked Paul and Silas up in prison because they set a slave girl free from demons. Beaten, and whipped, the two were locked in a prison. …[ read more ]

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    • What Is the Wonder of Christmas?
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    • What Is the Wonder of Christmas?

      By Carol McClain:   @carol_mcclain In 1937 King Edward VIII of England gave up his title and power and glory for love. He loved a sinner–a divorced American. Worse than being actually divorced, Wallis Simpson was still married but in the process of divorce. Wallis Simpson sympathized with the Nazis. Edward loved her, so he sacrificed everything for her. For an American, this love which created a constitutional crisis in England, speaks of a fairy tale perfection. We forget the flaws of the characters and moon over their mutual adoration.. THIS IS THE WONDER OF CHRISTMAS We Christians, though, have experienced even… ...[ full story ]

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