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Benefits from Suffering: Truth of God’s Love For You
Posted on Thursday, February 13th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, benefits from suffering, benefits of adversity, Carol McClain, Does God love me?, God loves you, God's love, God's love in a hard life, how adversity shows God's love, James 4: 1-2, Psalm 30:5, Romans 5:4, romans 8: 35-39, Suffering and God's Love, Writing Redemption
By Carol McClain “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask” James 4: 1-2. …[ read more ]

Sin Is Like a Rock
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 dutiful woman I am, I held this rough, craggy rock. What a pain in the palm! Throughout worship and the lifting of hands, all during the sermon and flipping Bible pages, this unwieldy thing distracted me. I could hold it and could lift it or… ...[ full story ]

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