by ccvadmin | Sep 9, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 127 (September 9, 2020) Jesus’ baptism is often considered the beginning of his earthly ministry. All three Persons of the Trinity were present and active as Jesus, God the Son, was anointed by the God the Holy Spirit as God the Father...
by ccvadmin | Sep 8, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 126 (September 8, 2020) In his moving Pulitzer Prize winning 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr writes, “We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and...
by ccvadmin | Sep 7, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 125 (September 7, 2020) The Old Testament book of Daniel includes one of the most famous stories in the Bible. Among the Israelite exiles taken to Babylon after the Babylonians besieged and razed Jerusalem in 587 B.C. were the prophet Daniel...
by ccvadmin | Sep 5, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 124 (September 4, 2020) Several years ago I had the privilege of spending a day wandering around Oxford, England. There is literally an “X” on the spot in the middle of Broad Street where the Oxford Martyrs were burned at the stake. Bishops...
by ccvadmin | Sep 5, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 123 (September 3, 2020) My favorite science fiction writer is the prolific Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). The title of his 1953 dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451 refers to the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. The protagonist...
by ccvadmin | Sep 2, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 122 (September 2, 2020) In his final book, All is Grace (2011) the late preacher and writer Brennan Manning, whose ministry has greatly encouraged me over many years, wrote, “If I’ve learned anything about the world of grace, it’s that failure is...
by ccvadmin | Sep 1, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 121 (September 1, 2020) When I was in high school Cyndi Lauper had one of her biggest hits, a beautiful reassuring ballad called “Time after Time” which she wrote in the midst of a very difficult personal relationship (who cannot relate to...
by ccvadmin | Aug 31, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 120 (August 31, 2020) There is something with which every person on the planet struggles: fear. These fears come in wide variety—fear of heights (acrophobia), fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), fear of flying (pteromerhanophobia—try to...
by ccvadmin | Aug 28, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 119 (August 28, 2020) People appreciate it when you not only remember their name but also call them by their name. Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) famously put it this way, “A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any...
by ccvadmin | Aug 27, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 118 (August 27, 2020) When it comes to the Great American Novel the shortlist of contenders always includes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece The Great Gatsby. Among many other ways this novel is often viewed as a cautionary tale about the...
