For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. Col. 1:13 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain For twenty years, I parented alone. No man visited the church I dedicated myself to, and I wasn’t going to search among the unsaved for love or a father-figure …[ read more ]

13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:13-14 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Sometimes I think I should have been a lawyer, I can find the loophole in anything. As a recovering perfectionist, the last part of John 15:14 drove …[ read more ]

“αθεοι” (atheoi), Greek for “those without god”, as it appears in the Epistle to the Ephesians on the third-century papyrus known as “Papyrus 46” (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) My ex-husband would leave me early in the evening so he could get into the bars before the cover charge went into effect. This, he said, was because …[ read more ]