by ccvadmin | Sep 23, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 137 (September 23, 2020) One of the best known passages of the Old Testament is God’s calling to Moses from the burning bush and commissioning him to lead the exodus of the Israelites from four centuries of bondage in Egypt (Exodus 3:1-12). When...
by ccvadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 136 (September 22, 2020) In our day in which most people have a cell phone and can record things that actually happen, we are reminded of the power of being an eyewitness and ear-witness. It is hard to deny what you actually see and hear for...
by ccvadmin | Sep 21, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 135 (September 21, 2020) In Cormac McCarthy’s bleak but powerful Pulitzer Prize winning 2006 novel The Road a man and his son are journeying down “the road” toward the coast in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. At one point the man says to his son,...
by ccvadmin | Sep 18, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 134 (September 18, 2020) As a kid in the 70’s I grew up with the radio on pretty much all the time. In 1976 Boston released their landmark eponymous debut album, an album that single handedly turned me on to the joy of rock ‘n roll, a joy I have...
by ccvadmin | Sep 17, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 133 (September 17, 2020) In the Academy Award winning 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper plays Pat Solitano, Jr., whose marriage has fallen apart and who has just been released from a mental health facility following his breakdown. ...
by ccvadmin | Sep 16, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 132 (September 16, 2020) When I was a kid growing up in Northern Virginia our neighbors across the street had a huge steep hill in their backyard. It was perfect in the winter for sledding, and perfect year round for one of our favorite...
by ccvadmin | Sep 15, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 131 (September 15, 2020) Many years ago I heard a “preacher story” that may or not be true, but it stuck with me…a hitchhiker burdened with an overloaded backpack was trudging down the road with his thumb out to hitch a ride. A kind old man in...
by ccvadmin | Sep 14, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 130 (September 14, 2020) In C. S. Lewis’ classic children’s book series The Chronicles of Narnia Aslan the lion is the Christ-like figure. At the end of the seventh and final volume, The Last Battle, Edmund and Lucy, after they and their family...
by ccvadmin | Sep 11, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 129 (September 11, 2020) One of my heroes is Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), who was the Archbishop of Canterbury and the leading figure of the English Reformation. In addition to producing the first two English Prayer Books in 1549 and 1552, he...
by ccvadmin | Sep 10, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 128 (September 10, 2020) One of my favorite Motown songs is the 1966 gem by the Four Tops, “Reach Out, I’ll Be There.” It is an incredibly catchy song of hope: “Now if you feel that you can’t go on because all of your hope is gone. And...
