Dr. Carolyn Coon

So… when do you stop ‘saving’ for a rainy day? Do you know how much (money, time, people, etc.) you need to ‘fund’ your rainy day? How do you know you have enough for your rainy day? How much is enough? All legitimate questions but often without definition. And they all speak to the issue […]

Have you ever had a brush with death? However, the larger question is… did it change your life? Did you make some lifestyle changes as a result of the experience. Or after a few days, weeks, months did life revert back to what it was prior to the experience? Maybe you made some promises to

Do you have one? Do you try to have one? Is a devotional life important to you? The last question is the critical consideration because this is the foundation on which a devotional life stands… or falls. One could also make an argument that your spiritual life stands or falls on your devotional life.What is

Since I’ve been writing this blog for a little over 6 months it’s time to reassess, refine, reconsider what I’m doing. That’s what I call ( ) time. (btw: Have you ever thought about how many ways you can say – what am I doing? You can say WHAT am I doing … or, what

Defining moments are those times in our lives that we can go to, in our minds, and see how a particular decision set you on a different path then the one you were on or marked an important decision that impacted on your life or an event/person that caused a change. Examples of defining moments

“Amazing Grace” is a favorite song that talks about how we were, WERE, a wretch but now, NOW… and that’s the point. We may have been one but the moment we accept Jesus as Lord, we no longer are wretches. We can no longer look at ourselves as wretches.When I was first saved I thought

There are many differences between the two types of hope, but the most significant is that natural hope isn’t based on anything while scriptural hope has a strong foundation. Natural hope seems to be a throw away word with no substance or foundation and little or no belief. Scriptural hope is described and defined differently.

It is my contention that hope is the least know, least understood, least defined and absolutely one of the most important companions one can associate with as you travel through life. Also, it is a word that constantly is used in our daily speech. I realize that sounds a tad dramatic but that doesn’t mitigate

If you remember from yesterday’s post, one of the attributes of Wisdom is ‘good fruits’. One of the things that has always intrigued me is that the statement is “… full of compassion AND good fruits…” Good fruits is coupled with compassion.The logical implication is that good fruits don’t exist without compassion and the manifestation

Do you know which is the most important? Granted you need both and knowledge typically occurs first, but which should be the goal – and why? Even as a child I always wanted wisdom – first. Perhaps I was partially influenced by the scripture story of Solomon who asked for wisdom, but I think it