by Christian Coon | Feb 1, 2018 | Aging, BLOG, Wisdom
“Teach us to number our days so we can have a wise heart.” (Psalm 90:12, CEB) It’s not unusual for me to have been in meetings where, if an important point needs to be made or a nugget of wisdom needs to be shared, I’ll look around the table...
by Christian Coon | Dec 20, 2017 | BLOG, Christmas, Incarnation, Jesus
What are you doing here? The Word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood. (John 1:14a, MSG) Several years ago, way back in the days of VCRs and DVDs, I went to a local video rental store to rent a movie. This is when I was pastoring in a northern suburb of...
by Christian Coon | Dec 6, 2017 | Advent, BLOG, Wilderness
John the Baptist was in the wilderness calling for people to be baptized to show that they were changing their hearts and lives and wanted God to forgive their sins. (Mark 1:4, CEB) One of my heroes is a woman named Carol (pictured above with her dog Leo). She...
by Christian Coon | Nov 8, 2017 | BLOG, Humanity
then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7, NRSV) I learned the other day that the most-liked tweet of all time is the tweet that President Obama posted...
by Christian Coon | Oct 12, 2017 | BLOG
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) (Acts 8:26) The fact that an American woman not named Williams won the U.S. Open Tennis Championships a few weeks...
by Christian Coon | Sep 27, 2017 | BLOG, Lament, Remembering
I preached on a sensitive topic a couple Sundays ago: suicide. I knew it could be an emotional service and I saw a few folks with tears in their eyes after I preached and I also knew there were a couple psychologists in attendance so during communion, I stealthily...
