by ccvadmin | Jan 4, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 209 (January 4, 2021) A particularly beautiful and powerful collect in The Book of Common Prayer is “A Collect for the Renewal of Life”—“O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the...
by ccvadmin | Jan 1, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 208 (January 1, 2021) At the beginning of each year many people make New Year’s resolutions. Maybe you have made such New Year’s resolutions for yourself…“This year I am going to lose weight (and keep it off)…This year I am going to exercise...
by ccvadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 207 (December 31, 2020) As you reflect on the past year what stands out to you? What happened this past year that changed your life—positively or negatively? What were some of the high points or milestones of this past year? What were some of...
by ccvadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 206 (December 30, 2020) In his brilliant 1960 book The Four Loves the incomparable C. S. Lewis describes in detail four different Greek words for love: storge (affection), philia (friendship), eros (romantic love), and agape (charity). The Greek...
by ccvadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 205 (December 29, 2020) In his poem “Michael: A Pastoral Poem” the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) wrote, “There is a comfort in the strength of love; ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or...
by ccvadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 204 (December 28, 2020) One of the most important events of the entire Bible was the Lord’s call to Abram, whose name the Lord later changed to Abraham. He was wealthy, established, elderly and secure. And yet the Lord still called him, “Now...
