by ccvadmin | Nov 12, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 173 (November 12, 2020) One of the most popular British rock bands of the 90’s was The Verve. Their biggest hit was their Grammy-nominated 1997 smash “Bitter Sweet Symphony” in which lead singer Richard Ashcroft sings, “It’s a bittersweet...
by ccvadmin | Nov 11, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 172 (November 11, 2020) One of the greatest basketball coaches ever was the legendary John Wooden (1910 – 2010), who died when he was ninety-nine. He coached the UCLA Bruins to ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons, including a record seven...
by ccvadmin | Nov 10, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 171 (November 10, 2020) A particularly powerful collect (brief, theologically loaded prayer) in The Book of Common Prayer is this one: “Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we...
by ccvadmin | Nov 9, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 170 (November 9, 2020) A particularly fascinating book written by the “Father of the National Parks”, John Muir (1838-1914), is The Yosemite (1912), in which he describes “riding” an avalanche: “The wallowing ascent had taken nearly all day, the...
by ccvadmin | Nov 8, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 168 (November 5, 2020) One of the most powerful moments of grace I ever experienced happened in my 8th grade Latin class. As we were conjugating verbs one day I was completely checked out, writing a gushing love letter (in the dark ages we did...
by ccvadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 169 (November 6, 2020) An often overlooked brilliant singer-songwriter is Kris Kristofferson, who wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” (one of Janis Joplin’s most famous hits), “Sunday Morning Comin’ Down” (a hit for Johnny Cash) and many others. In...
