Get Blog Post Updates
Sign up to receive blog posts automatically emailed straight to your inbox.

Tagged: spirituality

Religion and Potatoes: Six Differences Between Religion and Faith
Posted on Monday, April 24th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, faith, faith/works, Mark 7:15, religion, spirituality

There is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man. Mark 7:15 By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain Neil, bless his heart, loves potatoes. Yuck. No meal is complete without the spuds. Have I said yuck, yet? Every …[ read more ]
Four Hints You Are Religious Rather Than Spiritual
Posted on Monday, April 17th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 4 hints you are religious rather than spiritual, Carol McClain, character counts, faith, faith/works, filthy rags, Is 64:6, spirituality

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. Is. 64:6 By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain For most of my Christian life, I belong to a lively church that …[ 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 ]

Carol McClain