Dr. Carolyn Coon

  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

  Do you have an ‘every morning’? I do. And now I find that I wouldn’t be comfortable not starting my day this way. It may not be the first thing I do but once I’m somewhat awake, have a cup of coffee at my hand I start my day with the Lord. I have

  Such a safe place – the pew. By definition, it is the sought after (?) place in the church’s sanctuary from which you can sit back and view what’s going on. You can also offer your commentary without fear of having to prove it or do anything about it because the pew is a

  Losing a blessing… ever do this to yourself? This is a ‘knowing what you’re doing as you do it’ scenario, not an after the fact awareness. In this instance, definitely my bad. I was asked for a last minute favor – to do something for someone else, asked by another person. I passed on

  Why? Impossible! Seriously, is that even possible – taking ourselves out of the equation? Don’t see how. Your filter is you because you, everyone, need to order the stimuli you are facing, ignoring, interacting with… in order to have a reasoned response. You will always be part of your equation, the challenge is how to

  Does this look strange and sound ever weirder? Probably. When I heard those words coming out of my mouth, it arrested me too. ‘Of course I understand me’, was my initial response. ‘If I didn’t, who would?’ I suspect this thinking was triggered by another post I was writing on – “Disappointing yourself”. The

  Actually, this is true of everyone. We all see and react and interrelated with the world we live in through the filter called – Me. Logically one could ask how else could we respond? The following question could be – is that so bad? The answer to the last question is – it depends. But