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...
by ccvadmin | Dec 24, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 203 (December 24, 2020) One of the most powerful, high octane gospel Christmas hymns is “O Holy Night”, the mid-nineteenth century masterpiece by Adolphe Adam and Placide Cappeau. You know these lyrics: “Oh holy night. The stars are brightly...
by ccvadmin | Dec 23, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 202 (December 23, 2020) Have you ever noticed that you are given the best Christmas gifts from those who know you the best and love you the most? Those who really know you and really love you tend to give you gifts that mean the most to you,...
by ccvadmin | Dec 22, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 201 (December 22, 2020) When it comes to his Christmas stories, Charles Dickens is best known for his 1843 masterpiece novella A Christmas Carol, and rightly so. But in 1851 he published his brief and beautiful reflection What Christmas Is as We...
by ccvadmin | Dec 21, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 200 (December 21, 2020) One of the lesser known works of H. G. Wells (1866-1946) “the father of science fiction” is his 1910 novel The Sleeper Wakes. In this novel a Londoner named Graham sleeps for two centuries, and awakens in transformed...
by ccvadmin | Dec 18, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 199 (December 18, 2020) In his 2011 book Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr, a Franciscan friar, insightfully and incisively writes: “We seem to be our own worst enemies, and we forget or deny things that are...
by ccvadmin | Dec 17, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace #198 (December 17, 2020) One of my favorite poets is John Donne (1572-1631) who is not only one of England’s greatest poets but was also a priest. In his poem “A Hymn to God the Father” he writes about his need for God’s forgiveness: “Wilt thou...
