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  • Confess Your Sins: The Benefits of Confession–James 5:16-17
    Posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, confidentiality, healing of confession, James 5:16-17, twelve-step program

    Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. James 5:16-17 The Message . Confession?  “No,” you say. “That went out with the 20th century.” “No,” …[ read more ]

  • The Quality of Mercy: James 2:13
    Posted on Monday, December 14th, 2015 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: CR, forgiveness, James 2:13, mercy, twelve-step program

    “For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment “James 2:13. “Henry” grew up in a home parented by an alcoholic father and a distant mother. With no familial example, he turned to drugs by the time he was thirteen. By his mid-twenties, he’d been twice married, twice divorced. He lost …[ read more ]

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    • 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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