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Three Steps to a Ruined Prayer Life
Posted on Monday, September 25th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 Thes. 5:16, Carol McClain, how to ruin prayer, prayer, three steps to a ruined prayer life, Writing Redemption

By Carol McClain: @carol_mcclain There was a time when I knew prayer. The Bible describes prayer as wrestling or striving or fervency or laboring… and lots of other words implying working hard at it. I used to rise before my daughter woke so I could have at least and hour in prayer. I picked up my guitar and …[ 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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