by ccvadmin | May 11, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 238 (May 11, 2021) We live in a world in which it is often dangerous to be vulnerable, to let down our guard, take off our mask, and be who we really are. In his beautiful 1986 book Lion and Lamb the late Brennan Manning describes the...
by ccvadmin | May 10, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 237 (May 10, 2021) After leaving the progressive British rock band Genesis, Peter Gabriel embarked on a stellar solo career. His first hit was “Solsbury Hill” (1977) in which he sings about a spiritual experience he had atop Little Solsbury...
by ccvadmin | May 7, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 236 (May 7, 2021) One of the most moving and vulnerable songs by the South Carolina based band Needtobreathe is “Wasteland” from their 2014 album Rivers in the Wasteland in which they sing: “There was a greatness I felt for a while but somehow it...
by ccvadmin | May 6, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 235 (May 6, 2021) Undoubtedly one of the greatest novelists of all time is the incomparable Charles Dickens (1812-1870). While he was prolific and popular he was often criticized by wealthy people for his honest and empathetic descriptions of...
by ccvadmin | May 5, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 234 (May 5, 2021) The third and final stanza of the brilliant nineteenth century poet Christina Rossetti’s poem “The Thread of Life” reads: “Therefore myself is that one only thing I hold to use or waste, to keep or give; My sole possession every...
by ccvadmin | May 4, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 233 (May 4, 2021) As a kid growing up in the 70’s one of my favorite TV shows was The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin an Air Force pilot who suffered a horrendous plane crash. The narrator recounts in the famous...
