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  • Poverty Doesn’t Define You
    Posted on Monday, September 12th, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, All the Women of the Bible, carolmcclain.com, Herbert Lockyer, John 1:46, Luke 1:48, Mary mother of Jesus, Matthew 1:16, Writing Redemption

    @carol_mcclain Poverty defined most of my life. I was the oldest of six children, and still I wore hand-me-downs from the daughter of my mother’s best friend. At dinner, my mother loved to eat the meat off of bones we discarded. Only recently had I learned that meat was her sole portion. My father fished as …[ read more ]

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    • Christian–You Are Righteous, But Are You Merciful?

      Carol McClain Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matt. 5:7 Don Carson, a theologian and co-founder of Gospel Coalition, writes: “Mercy is a loving response prompted by the misery and helplessness of the one on which love is to be showered.” If I only knew then what I know now. I used to be able to point my fingers at others for not learning how to pull themselves out of the gutter. After all, I'd come from a rough and tumble upbringing where alcohol use (we were NOT drug addicts, thank you) was de rigueur. Poor and self-conscious… ...[ full story ]

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