Dr. Carolyn Coon

  You think I’m facetious?! Not! Turn on your TV and you’ll see someone hawking this cure or that approach or a ‘you’ll look years younger…’ What is with this? Why the overwhelming emphasis on youth or becoming younger? What’s wrong with having wrinkles? I think they show amazing resilience, a kind of – look what […]

  Let me repeat that – when you are born again, it is NOT a license. Can salvation be lost? There are arguments on both sides of this issue and scripture that seems to support both positions, but since scripture is neither confusing nor contradictory – it must be our understanding. However, this is not that discussion.

  There is something almost intoxicating about a clean slate. Nothing is written on the slate and there is nothing you have to do. The sense of freedom lasts until you put the pen to paper or chalk to slate. And now… your slate is being filled in. How does that make you feel? Pleased

  I don’t know about you but I’m a sucker for ‘happily ever after’ stories. They always give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. Are they possible? Does happily ever after even exist? Don’t you want to believe in ‘happily ever after’? How do you know when happily ever after occurs? WHERE is happily ever

  I have said in countless ways, countless times that it is what we believe, how we think, what we feel that is demonstrated in our behavior, our actions – a simple formula. So why am I beating a dead horse? Probably because I don’t think you can say it enough. It is so fundamental, so

  Do you? Or do you focus on your needs, wants, situation, etc.? Do you ever count your blessings? There was a song, actually three but I’m referring to Irving Berlin’s, called “Count Your Blessings” that became a huge ‘hit’ in 1954. It calls on us, especially in the difficult times, to remember our blessings

  Do you realize just how delightful those two words are?! Translated into attitudes those words make life a truly marvelous adventure. And what do these words cost you? Absolutely nothing. Which only adds to their splend-ness. What does surprise and wonder ‘look’ like? All you need do is to look into the face of

  Talk about misconception!!! This is probably the most misunderstood word and concept in the history of mankind – including (especially?) the Christian world. Everyone uses it but no one seems to either have a correct definition or application of the word. So often it is simply used to control but that has no bearing whatsoever on

  Do you feel you have one?  Are your thoughts and ideas, your beliefs and ‘philosophy’ heard? Perhaps a definition of what I mean by ‘having a voice’ would help: a voice is the ability to express your thoughts, ideas, beliefs and know that they have been heard. In my world of definitions, ‘voice’ has

  I would suggest that the Church world would consider themselves as inoffensive, acceptable to the world. That we try to be tolerant of all and inclusive of all. The church has/does bend over backwards … to what end? I was musing about how Paul would react to who/what the church is today. I suspect he