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  • Learn Your Weakness: Work With Them
    Posted on Monday, August 21st, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: character tests, God's love, golden retrievers, people pleasing, perfection, writing repemption

    by: By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain Friends started a small group with one of those fun character quizzes. In this one, our characteristics were symbolized by cute animals: lion, otter, beaver, golden retrievers. I so wanted to be a beaver. They were industrious. Got things done. All business. That’s how I saw myself. Shockingly, I came up as …[ read more ]

  • If you accept Jesus, you are complete.
    Posted on Monday, February 27th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, end of self, forgiveness of sins, fulfillment of self, Grace, If you accept Jesus you are complete, perfection

    Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and [ b ]through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses . Acts 13:38-39 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain I was raised in a church tradition that never offered complete eradication of sin. Always a stain remained and sacrifices had to …[ read more ]

  • What Is Perfection? I’ll Show you: Photo Expose
    Posted on Monday, May 16th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Adirondack Mountains, botanical gardens, Carol McClain, character counts, Great Smoky Mountains, Mosiaculture, perfection, wild flowers

    Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. Luke 12:27 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain One of my favorite spots in the Montreal Botanical Gardens . If you ever want to see perfection, go there–especially from now until early summer. …[ read more ]

  • Mistakes: Make Them Good
    Posted on Monday, April 11th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, condemnation, mistakes, mistakes are good., perfection, perfectionism, Romans 8:1, you can make mistakes

    “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” Rom. 8:1.     Mistakes. Ever make one?   Usually we don’t like to admit it–especially publicly. But I have little pride.   Mistakes are good.   Last week began my crazy week. I taught at a woman’s retreat, had approximately 3.5 tons …[ read more ]

  • Cause # 2 Perfectionism: Legalistic Leaders
    Posted on Monday, March 14th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 Peter 5:3, Carol McClain, character counts, First Epistle of Peter, Hebrews 10:14, legalism, legalistic leaders, Matthew 20: 25-8, perfection

    But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be …[ 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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