by ccvadmin | Oct 21, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 157 (October 21, 2020) One of the litmus tests of whether a relationship in your life is law-based or grace-based is how you write a text or email to that person. When you text or email them, do you make sure to proofread and double check to make...
by ccvadmin | Oct 20, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 156 (October 20, 2020) Recently one of the greatest guitarists ever, the legendary Eddie Van Halen, died. Like many others my age, his music was a big part of my life, especially from elementary school through college. From the landmark...
by ccvadmin | Oct 19, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 155 (October 19, 2020) Since middle school I have enjoyed the novels of H. G. Wells (1866-1946), often referred to as the father of science fiction. In addition to his classic novels The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War...
by ccvadmin | Oct 16, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 154 (October 16, 2020) In his insightful and poignant 1979 book The Wounded Healer the late Catholic priest and scholar Henri Nouwen describes the power of compassion: “Compassion is born when we discover in the center of our own existence not...
by ccvadmin | Oct 15, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 153 (October 15, 2020) Several summers ago my daughter Emily and I drove across the desserts of Utah, crossed into Nevada and visited the often overlooked Great Basin National Park. This beautiful park includes some of the oldest living trees on...
by ccvadmin | Oct 14, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 152 (October 14, 2020) On a crisp fall day when I was in fifth grade a couple friends of mine and I made plans to build a fort in the woods in our neighborhood. We dragged pieces of plywood along with remnants of shingles and carpet from the...
by ccvadmin | Oct 13, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 151 (October 13, 2020) Recently the gifted singer Johnny Nash died. His biggest hit was the 1970 pick-me-up classic Jimmy Cliff song “I Can See Clearly Now”, one of the most uplifting songs you will ever hear: “I can see clearly now the rain is...
by ccvadmin | Oct 12, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 150 (October 12, 2020) In his 1986 book Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus the late Brennan Manning wrote, “God loves you as you are and not as you should be! Do you believe this? That God loves you beyond worthiness and...
by ccvadmin | Oct 9, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace: October 9, 2020 Arguably the greatest and most prolific theologian of the twentieth century was Karl Barth (1886 – 1968). The Swiss theologian worked on his magnum opus, Church Dogmatics, over the course of thirty-five years (1932 –...
by ccvadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace: October 8, 2020 In the back of The Book of Common Prayer there is a succinct treasure trove of theology called the “Articles of Religion” (or the “Thirty-nine Articles”), a distillation of the theology of the English...
