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Sin Is Like a Rock
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 ]
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5 Ways Sin Is Like a Rock
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 ]
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Daily Repentance: Three Signs We’re Following Christ
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, …[ read more ]
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Proof of Christianity: Chronic Repentance
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Eph. 2:8-9 By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain Newly divorced with a young child, I started life over again in Malone, a tiny town in Northern New York. Here I met some lovely …[ read more ]
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The Roots of Thanksgiving: Keep Christ in Thanksgiving
Image by aronki via Flickr Sarah and David argued. “ Lincoln invented Thanksgiving ,” my grandson said. “No he didn’t, the Pilgrims did,” said Sarah. They debated and my grandson ended in tears. “You don’t understand what I’m saying.” This argument continued in the manner that only my dogged grandson could maintain, so …[ read more ]