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  • Sin Is Like a Rock
    Posted on Monday, June 29th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, forgiveness, hard hearts, Matt. 19:26, progress, repentance, sin, Sin is like a rock, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain       @carol_mcclain The elders in my daughter’s church handed out rocks. These weren’t pretty, soothing objects like worry rocks or quartz or painted ones with happy messages or water-smoothed pebbles. Each was large enough to hold but oddly shaped and rough. The pastor instructed us to hold the stone throughout the service. Being the obsessively …[ read more ]

  • 5 Ways Sin Is Like a Rock
    Posted on Monday, May 20th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 5 ways sin is like a rock, Carol McClain, repentance, sin, sin like a rock, sorrow, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain       @carol_mcclain The elders in my daughter’s church handed out rocks. These weren’t pretty, soothing objects like worry rocks or quartz or painted ones with happy messages or water-smoothed pebbles. Each was large enough to hold but oddly shaped and rough. The pastor instructed us to hold the stone throughout the service. Being the obsessively …[ read more ]

  • Daily Repentance: Three Signs We’re Following Christ
    Posted on Monday, June 5th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, Daily repentance: three signs we're following Christ, Holy Spirit, Jesus, repentance, Rom. 7:14-23

    For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, …[ read more ]

  • Proof of Christianity: Chronic Repentance
    Posted on Monday, May 1st, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, Eph. 2: 8-9, proof of Christianity, repentance

     For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;  not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Eph. 2:8-9 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Newly divorced with a young child, I started life over again in Malone, a tiny town in Northern New York. Here I met some lovely …[ read more ]

  • The Roots of Thanksgiving: Keep Christ in Thanksgiving
    Posted on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | Tagged: Biblical precedent, history, repentance, Thanksgiving

    Image by aronki via Flickr      Sarah and David argued. “ Lincoln invented Thanksgiving ,” my grandson said.      “No he didn’t, the Pilgrims did,” said Sarah.      They debated and my grandson ended in tears. “You don’t understand what I’m saying.”      This argument continued in the manner that only my dogged grandson could maintain, so …[ read more ]

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    • Five Ways To Keep Your Resolutions

      “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life It's the new year, and of course, you've made resolutions. Do you want to exercise more? Cook healthy meals? Write a book? Have you resolved that this is the year you'd accomplish this? Nearly all of us have already broken our resolves. Why? Because we do what we want to do. Wait, our resolves are our desire, or so we think. Not if you're not doing… ...[ full story ]

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