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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 ]

  • Sin and the Stockholm Syndrome
    Posted on Monday, August 5th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Bible, Carol McClain, Galatians 5:1, Matthew 6:24, Patty Hearst, sin, society, Stockholm syndrome, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain  carol_mcclain On Feb. 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Two months later, authorities caught her robbing the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco with her captors. How did a young woman with no history of protests or rebellion, one who came from an affluent, conservative family suddenly become a bank robber?   A …[ 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 ]

  • House Cleaning and Sin: How We Justify Our Self-Hatred
    Posted on Monday, June 26th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 John 1:9, Carol McClain, character counts, How we justify our self-hatred, James 5:16-17, self-hatred, self-loathing, sin

    Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. James 5:16 By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain We invited friends over to the house at the last minute. I looked over my home and knew I only had time for what I called …[ read more ]

  • Your Ways–Not Everyone’s
    Posted on Monday, March 20th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 Cor. 7: 17, 2 Cor. 3:17, Carol McClain, character counts, convictions, Gal. 5:19-21, sin, values, Your ways--not everyone's

    Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches. 1 Cor. 7:17 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Neil and I sat in a little Italian restaurant in Spain. The waiter brought out a complimentary aperitif. Drunkenness is …[ read more ]

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      “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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