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Tagged: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

How to Enjoy Your Circumstances: One Easy Way
Posted on Monday, May 4th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Annie Dillard, Carol McClain, COVID-19, how to enjoy your circumstances, How to not worry, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, self-consciousness separates us from God, Writing Redemption

by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matt. 6:34) We’re living in a scary time. COVID-19 rears its head, and we don’t know if we’re next in line to succumb to it. The pandemic aside, no one guarantees our …[ read more ]
Blindly Believing: Fixed Notions
Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Annie Dillard, Carol McClain, coronavirus, COVID-19, God's glory, God's love, God's promises, John 9: 1-12, Luke 13:4, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, strange insect behavior, The Fixed, the tower of Siloam, Writing Redemption

by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN We, like the insect world of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, have fixed ideas. Whether they help us or not, we learned certain things, believe them and follow them blindly. It makes us not much better than bugs. Here’re some of the crazy things insects do: The FIXED notions of Chapter 4: “The Fixed.” …[ read more ]

Five Reasons to Love that People Hate What You Stand For

Carol McClain Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 5:10 Ah the Beatitudes. How we love them. Until-- Verse ten. Why did God put that one in? Blessed? How can we be blessed? Five Reasons to Love that People Hate What You Stand For 2 Tim. 3: 12 In contemporary media, when a Christian is a character, he/she's the villain. Why? We're a light to the world. The darkness--aka sin--is exposed when the light shines. If you speak the truth, people will hate you. But the caveat is: Christians can… ...[ full story ]

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