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Tagged: poor in spirit

How Do You Find Heaven?
Posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Can God forgive my sin, Carol McClain, How do we find redemption, How to find the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 5:3, poor in spirit, Ps. 51: 1-4, Writing Redemption

Carol McClain Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 In my darkest hours, when my emotional health was at the lowest, I understood I needed Jesus. When we are “poor in spirit,” the first Beatitude says, we can find heaven. (Read last week’s post. Click here ). However, once …[ read more ]
Want the Kingdom of Heaven?
Posted on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, beatitudes, Carol McClain, Exodus 20: 21, Kingdom of Heaven; how to find the kingdom of heaven; why do the poor in spirit find the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 5: 3, poor in spirit, Writing Redemption

Carol McClain Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5: 3 My Christian brother convinced my sister and me to go to church with him when my grandmother died. After all, death is one time non-believers believe they should go to church. For me, that day turned my …[ read more ]

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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