Dr. Carolyn Coon

  Are you tilting at windmills? If so… don’t do so for long. All tilting accomplishes is tiring you out. Yes? Tilting may sound Don Quixotic-al romantic, but how does this help? Is that romantic and ineffectual image one that you really want to portray, to be remembered as? And if so… to whom and […]

  Have you ever been homesick? Perhaps when you first left home… probably when you graduated from high school and left to go to (fill in the blank). Homesick really has nothing to do with where you are moving to as much as it always is based on a milestone change in your life, which

  Do you? Do or give your best? Or do you do the minimum, what you can ‘get by’ doing? I grew up with the phrase that if (‘it’ – fill in the blank) is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. This phrase became so ingrained in my thinking that it still directs much of

  In one of my post I was talking about my ‘every morning’, how I begin my day. Then I heard me say to the Lord, “I love you. As much as I know what this word means and how to go about doing it – I love you.” Strange? Perhaps but I did find the

  Possible? My response would be – ‘of course’. However, before attempting to change what is, you have to acknowledge that (fill in the blank) is. And this is not always comfortable. We may not like ‘what is’ and so we attempt to distance ourselves from ‘it’. It won’t go away though and seems to

  Most Christians are led by the principle that we should hate the sin but not the sinner; that we should always exhibit an inclusive attitude regardless of the behavior of others. Seriously… does this really make sense? Is this even possible? And more importantly… why? What do we ‘gain’ by exhibiting an unconditional, inclusive,

  Recently I read:            “A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and      were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots are      withered. Carve you name on hearts and not on marble.”That statement by Charles H. Spurgeon puts a period on what should

  I was talking with someone who made the comment that his opinion was that Christians were hypocrites. Though unspoken, the implication was that this indictment applied to all Christians. I asked him was his statement meant to imply that non-Christians weren’t? Obviously, this was not the response he expected. I think he thought that I’d launch

  Precisely… what does that mean ‘…considering the circumstances’? Does it mean that you really aren’t in the best of places? Does it mean – ‘ask me more so I can get some sympathy’? Does it mean – ‘don’t ask me, I don’t want to talk about it’. See? That phrase has all sorts of

  When I was in college there was a great book written by Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict. If you haven’t read it, I do recommend you take the time to do so. The point was that in the reading you had to answer for yourself if there was a God. I’d like to expand