Dr. Carolyn Coon

  Stage 1: first comes knowledge. Knowledge is a willful act – you must willingly pursue it. Scripture, Proverbs, tells us to seek knowledge. It isn’t always an issue of liking the knowledge, it’s not valued this way. Knowledge doesn’t hide or elude us but it does require us to pursue it, to discover. Knowledge […]

  You do realize that with every action, every word you utter you are planting seeds? Some of the seeds, like the description in Matthew 13 and Luke 8, fall on the wayside, some on stony places, some on thorns, but some on good ground. This is the Parable of the Sower. But what we

  As a writer, you sometimes Know (capital K) when a thought is going to turn into a post or become part of the next book. This was very true for me with this title (so, it’s a both/and). Honestly, there are times that I believe that my primary ‘writer skill’ is as a kind of

  Such a Big word. Typically, individually defined. But what are the characteristic that you include in your definition? Trust has to be more than just a feeling, more than simply esoteric – we all need to have reasons based on our standards that define trust and give us clear understanding of when trust has

   I read an email from “Dayspring” as I started this thought. It said:     “…With every New Year comes new promises we make to ourselves.      …Instead of self-promises, let’s make some promises to God…”This got me thinking about WHO we make promises to. Which led me to looking at our promises to

  Do you ever feel like that? When you look at your life accomplishments do you immediately compare yourself to [fill in the blank) and think or feel you fall incredibly short? Perhaps you are waiting to ‘be assigned’? That you are only marking time until you are somehow ‘launched’? That you really haven’t discovered

     “…And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love      mercy, And to walk humbly with your God…”Actually this scripture (Micah 6:8) is stated as a question. It is the voice of God speaking to His people as He pleads with Israel to return to Him. According to

   What does this word really mean? Giving in? Giving up? Having your dreams, hopes, desires trampled on or discarded? I don’t think so. But I do believe it is critically important to know what your definition is because how you define it for yourself may not be how it should be defined.   If you

  I am a card-carrying member of the ‘Dialoguers’ (of course that isn’t an actual organization but it defines those who tend to be in dialogue with whoever and whatever (defined as books, or the radio/TV, etc.) is ‘there’). I do find that I fit quite easily into that category. I much prefer dialogue, iron-sharpening-iron

  Do you have an issue with patches? Are you finding yourself putting on patches (or Band Aids?) over certain aspects, sins(?), weaknesses you see in your life? Do you ever have the time to return to those patches to resolve, build up, eliminate (fill in the blank) or do you simply hope that your