by ccvadmin | May 7, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 236 (May 7, 2021) One of the most moving and vulnerable songs by the South Carolina based band Needtobreathe is “Wasteland” from their 2014 album Rivers in the Wasteland in which they sing: “There was a greatness I felt for a while but somehow it...
by ccvadmin | May 6, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 235 (May 6, 2021) Undoubtedly one of the greatest novelists of all time is the incomparable Charles Dickens (1812-1870). While he was prolific and popular he was often criticized by wealthy people for his honest and empathetic descriptions of...
by ccvadmin | May 5, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 234 (May 5, 2021) The third and final stanza of the brilliant nineteenth century poet Christina Rossetti’s poem “The Thread of Life” reads: “Therefore myself is that one only thing I hold to use or waste, to keep or give; My sole possession every...
by ccvadmin | May 4, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 233 (May 4, 2021) As a kid growing up in the 70’s one of my favorite TV shows was The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin an Air Force pilot who suffered a horrendous plane crash. The narrator recounts in the famous...
by ccvadmin | May 3, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 232 (May 3, 2021) One of the most accomplished songwriters and guitarists in country music is Vince Gill. In 1995 he released his award winning song “Go Rest High on That Mountain” from his album When Love Finds You. He wrote this song...
by ccvadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 231 (April 30, 2021) The Gospel According to John is structured around seven different miracles or “signs” performed by Jesus to demonstrate that he was and is the Son of God. Of course there were many more than seven such miracles but John...
by ccvadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 230 (April 29, 2021) So far my favorite film in the prolific Marvel Comics movie series is Captain Marvel (2019) in which Brie Larson stars as Carol Danvers (aka Captain Marvel) one of the best superheroes ever (in my opinion). There is a...
by ccvadmin | Apr 28, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 229 (April 28, 2021) One of the towering figures of twentieth century English literature is Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), a brilliant novelist, essayist and literary critic. In her 1929 book length essay A Room of One’s Own she addresses the need...
by ccvadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 228 (April 27, 2021) Have you ever noticed that the very presence of one person can alter the mood of a whole group? When that person enters the room everyone knows it. You either feel the collective blood pressure and anxiety in the room...
by ccvadmin | Apr 26, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 227 (April 26, 2021) The closing song on Taylor Swifts 2017 album reputation is the moving ballad “New Year’s Day” in which she describes what faithful love looks like: “You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi. I can tell that...
