by ccvadmin | Aug 14, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 109 (August 14, 2020) In his classic short story collection Dubliners James Joyce includes a series of stories that begin with childhood and adolescence, proceed through young adulthood and middle age, and end with old age and death. In the...
by ccvadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 108 (August 13, 2020) Doubtless one of the greatest figures in the entire Bible is Moses, through whom God rescued the Israelites from four hundred years of bondage in Egypt. After the exodus Moses remained Israel’s leader in the wilderness for...
by ccvadmin | Aug 12, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 107 (August 12, 2020) While we live in a throwaway culture, we do not worship a throwaway God—but rather a restoring, healing, forgiving God. In Japan there is a special type of art called kintsugi in which broken pottery, rather than being...
by ccvadmin | Aug 11, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 106 (August 11, 2020) As part of his ministry preaching the gospel and planting churches around the Roman world the Apostle Paul spent eighteen months in the prosperous and cosmopolitan city of Corinth. He later wrote the Corinthian church...
by ccvadmin | Aug 10, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 105 (August 10, 2020) When I was in college the supergroup Traveling Wilburys (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne…all in one band!) released their first hit, “Handle with Care.” This song is a plea from someone...
by ccvadmin | Aug 7, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 104 (August 7, 2020) There is a phrase used to describe someone who has messed up, really messed up, and as a result has “fallen from grace” or experienced a “fall from grace.” This means whatever favor or respect or prerogatives this person may...
by ccvadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 103 (August 6, 2020) As a senior in high school English class I was introduced to John Donne (1572-1631), the Anglican priest and poet—specifically his “Holy Sonnet 10”—“ Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for...
by ccvadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 102 (August 5, 2020) On his 1975 masterpiece album Blood on the Tracks is one of Bob Dylan’s best songs, “Shelter from the Storm”, comfort for those in need of just that: “I was burned out from exhaustion buried in the hail, poisoned in the...
by ccvadmin | Aug 4, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 101 (August 4, 2020) On a crisp late autumn Sunday is November several years ago I spent one of the best days of my life at Joshua Tree National Park in California. I entered at the north entrance of the park in the higher elevated Mojave...
by ccvadmin | Aug 3, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 100 (August 3, 2020) One of my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live skits is “More Cowbell”, which was a parody of an episode of the VH1 television series Behind the Music, specifically about Blue Oyster Cult’s 1976 hit “(Don’t Fear) The...
