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Tagged: Proverbs 16:19.

Four Sure-Fire Ways to Keep New Year’s Resolutions
Posted on Monday, January 1st, 2018 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, four ways to keep your resolutions, Proverbs 16:19., Writing Redemption
By Carol McClain: @carol _mcclain Everyone’s busy making New Year’s resolutions–perhaps, as this is written, they’ve already been broken. What are you hoping for? Lose weight? Start exercising? Spend more time with your kids? Read the Bible through in a year? Save your marriage? All of these are great ideas, and I’m sure you can add …[ read more ]

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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