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  • Love Life: Live in the Moment
    Posted on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, beauty in a snow storm, Borrowed Lives, Carol McClain, hepatica, little things matter, live in the moment, look at your world, Love Life: Live in the Moment, Matt 6:34, photography, seize the day, two important photography rules, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof” (Matt. 6:34). I love photography. Although not a gifted photographer, I love practicing the craft. Recently, two points have been hammered home to create art rather …[ read more ]

  • God Can Create Beauty from Tragedy
    Posted on Monday, March 8th, 2021 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, author Carol McClain, Baskin Creek, beauty from ashes, Beauty from tragedy, Borrowed Lives, carolmcclain.com, Gatlinburg Wildfire 2016, Great Smoky Mountains, healing from pain, Is 61:2, Smoky Mountains, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain “(He has called me) To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified” …[ read more ]

  • How Get Joy Out of Sorrow
    Posted on Friday, February 12th, 2021 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Borrowed Lives, consequences of sin, drug addiction, Elk Lake Publishing, joy, mentoring, Numbers 14:18, Salvation, sin has consequences, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain JOY COMES IN THE MORNING BUT UNTIL IT DOES …? Sin’s not all it’s cracked up to be—but after sorrow, comes joy.   Numbers 14:18 and similar scriptures always caused me to stumble. “The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting …[ read more ]

  • Why Christians Are Hated
    Posted on Saturday, September 12th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, Hatred toward Christians, How to live godly, Isaiah 1:16-17, John 15: 18-19, Matthew 15:22, People hated Jesus--they'll hate us, Why Christians are hated, why society hates Christians, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain Last week, a reader commented that no matter what we do, the lost will despise Christians. He was right. 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to …[ read more ]

  • Learn To Do Good: Hard/But Possible
    Posted on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, character, COVID-19, evil, good, holiness, How to learn to do good, Isaiah 1:16-17, Learn to do good, Luke 6:45, Six Ways to Be Holy, Why Media Hates Christians, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain . We’re looking at Isaiah 1:16-17. And if you are with me, you know because we’re saved by grace and not works, people see our human nature and think we’re a bunch of hypocrites. News flash: Nope. We’re not. Oh? You already knew that. As a review, Isaiah 1:16b-17 reads: Cease to …[ read more ]

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    • Ten Ways to be Filled with the Holy Spirit

        @carol_mcclain "Don't be drunk with wine, be filled with the Spirit!" 1 Cor.5:18 According to John Piper, how do we get drunk with wine? We drink it. Lots of it. So how do we get drunk with the Holy Spirit? Immerse yourself in God. Drink in lots of Him. Read your Scriptures. Pray. Sing Psalms and hymns and contemporary Christian music. Listen to edifying Christian stations. Avoid our entertainment that celebrates sinful behavior--alcohol, sex, foul language. Hang out with practicing, like-minded Christians. Go to church. Take notes on the sermon. Look around this world and see the glory God… ...[ full story ]

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