Dr. Carolyn Coon

  You do realize that there really is no such thing as the ‘little things’?  In the flush of (fill in the blank) whatever is part of what is happening is important. Too often we don’t appreciate that it is important or we downplay the subsequent ramifications. The point, bottom line is that Life and […]

  I would argue that one of the most insidious feeling/thinking anyone ever experiences is doubt. It can stop us from progressing and can arrest our attention without resolving anything. Doubt is rarely a positive force to understanding and can be totally misleading or misdirecting. When scripture warns us that our enemy (1 Peter 5:8)

  For the most part, I am a silver-linings type. I tend to be able to find a positive in most situations. This is NEVER a rose-colored glasses approach nor is it that I ignore the issues and problems, it’s that I try and find the positive so I have a solid platform on which

  This could have been your destiny, and mine. It is the destiny for those who refuse to accept Jesus. Talking about the cross – what it means, why it happened, what this means for us, helping others understand, etc. – is never as complex as we tend to make it nor as simple. Simply:

  What do you do with your expression of Christianity – put it on the shelf along with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit? And you point to it when you want others to notice. I really don’t believe that Christianity is meant to be safe. It’s a great deal stronger than most people may

  Faith the size of a mustard seed… both Matthew (17) and Luke (17) talk about faith and our acting on it. Faith isn’t something that’s put on the shelf and only brought out when company comes, need arises. Faith IS active and working. And when you look at it… if you aren’t acting in

     “Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred,      let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt,       faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light;      where there is sadness, joy.      … grant that I

  Who you are. What you do. How you go about Be-ing and Do-ing starts and ends here – the attitude of your heart. Do you check your heart? If you take your blood pressure, or have it taken regularly, do you check your heart’s attitude as well? Starting with the bottom line… the attitude

  Do we really know what the word, ‘prosper’ means? When you use or hear it – what is the reference? What is it we hear? My guesstimate would be that the subject is either financial or material. Yes? But ‘prosper’ is so much more expansive then that limiting definition.     “Beloved, I pray that

  Is that how you would describe you… or your life… or your faith? Hopefully not, because if you view yourself and your life in with that perspective, you are diminishing the gift of life that’s been given you. Equally important is the question about what is ‘nothing’? I often quote Romans 8:17 – beginning at