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Three Steps to Change Your Life: Lessons from Rahab
Posted on Monday, August 8th, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Boaz, Carol McClain, James 2:17, Jesse, Jewish Women's Archive, Joshua 2, King David, Matthew 1:5, powerful women, prostitution, Rahab, redemption, Salmon, Shalvi/Hyman encyclopedia of Jewish Women, Writing Redemption

@carol_mcclain Is your past unforgivable? Definitely not. Consider Rahab, one of the ancestors of Jesus, mentioned in Matthew 1:5. She was a prostitute. No little girl–or boy–decides as a child, “I’ll be a prostitute.” What forces one into this lifestyle? Drugs? Abuse? Poverty? They say this is the oldest profession, and indeed, we read about prostitutes …[ 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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