by ccvadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace: October 7, 2020 One of the funniest and most famous episodes of the classic television comedy The Office begins with Michael Scott-regional manager of the Dunder Mifflin paper company branch in Scranton, Pennsylvania- hitting fellow employee...
by ccvadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace: October 6, 2020 One of the biggest hits from one of my favorite albums from the 90’s, the brilliant 1995 (What’s the Story) Morning Glory by Oasis, is “Don’t Look Back in Anger”, a song about not getting stuck in...
by ccvadmin | Oct 5, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 145 (October 5, 2020) On a sunny humid summer day in 2002 I had the opportunity to visit the Survivor Tree at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, site of the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing during which 168 people, including 19 children, lost...
by ccvadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 144 (October 2, 2020) In Orlando, Florida on March 4, 2000 my wife Steph and I attended the first of what would be many concerts of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was one of the best nights of our lives—cathartic, exhilarating,...
by ccvadmin | Oct 1, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 143 (October 1, 2020) In one of the most powerful and honest collects in The Book of Common Prayer we pray, “Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command...
by ccvadmin | Sep 30, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 142 (September 30, 2020) Many years ago when I was a youth minister I led a group of high school students on an ascent of Pike’s Peak near Colorado Springs. Pike’s Peak is one of the more famous “fourteener’s” (mountains with a summit of at...
by ccvadmin | Sep 29, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 141 (September 29, 2020) Most of the song titles on Pearl Jam’s 1991 epic debut album Ten were, like the title of the album, a single word—i.e., “Once,” “Alive,” “Jeremy,” etc.—and this became a bit of a joke. In response, on their sophomore...
by ccvadmin | Sep 28, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 140 (September 28, 2020) In Jane Austen’s masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice (1813) Elizabeth Bennett shares with her sister Jane her honest opinion of human nature: “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well....
by ccvadmin | Sep 25, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 139 (September 25, 2020) In her 2008 memoir A Freewheelin’ Time Suze Rotolo (the lady walking arm in arm with Bob Dylan on the iconic album cover of his classic 1963 album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan) recounts her fascinating experiences in...
by ccvadmin | Sep 24, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 138 (September 24, 2020) In her 2011 autobiography Sweet Judy Blue Eyes Judy Collins (who was the subject of the Crosby, Stills, and Nash 1969 classic “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”, hence the play on words in the book title) vulnerably wrote about the...
