Dr. Carolyn Coon

  First – don’t assume that ‘in the trenches’ is a negative or painful place to live. Sometimes it is, but we can still laugh and love and grow in our time here. This is where most of us live the majority of our lives… in the trenches. We live in our day-to-day which allows […]

  Ministry qualifications… You do realize, don’t you, that the disciples didn’t go to Seminary? They didn’t learn how to write a sermon or deliver a message and yet they were able to touch the world with Who they were touched by, which nearly 2000 years later continues to effectively influence and change lives. Why

  Admittedly, this is one of my favorite phrases, basically because of what it is stating. However, one could make a case that it is only a glammed up phrase meaning change, which is not too far off the mark. It is… but it conveys so much more than an awareness of change and all

  This may sound like a presumption on my part, or, minimally, a stupid question but when you pray, do you pray believing? Or do you pray, hoping? Maybe you pray, unthinkingly and/or rote-like? Do you pray that God will ‘do something’ to change some one or thing? The point is – when you pray,

  You are in a desert or a dry place spiritually… so what do you do? Complain? Not that complaining really accomplishes anything but… May I suggest a couple of actions that have proved beneficial – at least for me. First: determine if you really are in a desert. One should always discover if one’s

  Regardless of what is occurring, I believe that the Lord always has the time for us – at the moment… now. He never tells us to come back later when He may be freer. He never has us wait. He is always present to listen. It truly is immaterial as to why this is so…

  Do you have a moan occasionally? Of course you do. We all have moans… and there is nothing intrinsically ‘wrong’ in having a moan. I think the operative word is – occasionally. Just how often do you have a moan? And is it always to the same select few to whom you bestow this

  Doesn’t that paint a vivid picture! And it is telling us…??? I sometimes think we like the phrase without ever defining the words. At times it appears that it is almost a badge… still with no definitions. I believe that the phrase was originally coined by Winston Churchill in 1939 to describe Russia and

  Actually I talk a great deal about forgiveness, from a variety of perspectives. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that I typically am in great need of forgiveness – daily. When you consider Webster’s definition:        “to stop feeling anger toward (someone who has done something wrong) :       to stop blaming

  Where are you bound? Do you belong… but, where? Here? Anywhere? Where’s home? Or, are you just passing through…? If your attitude, because it is an attitude, that you are only passing through, then what kind of footprint are you making? And again, yes – you always leave a footprint. Or perhaps the question should be, regardless