by ccvadmin | May 8, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 39 (May 8, 2020) God is an ever-creative God, creating things ex nihilo (out of nothing). This is a recurring theme throughout scripture. The Old Testament begins with a beautiful poetic account of how God “created the heavens and the earth”...
by ccvadmin | May 7, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 38 (May 7, 2020) In the Gospel According to John there is a moving episode in which Jesus goes to a well in the middle of the day. There is a woman there, which was unusual because normally women gathered at the well in the mornings and...
by ccvadmin | May 6, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 37 (May 6, 2020) Back in the summer of 1993 when I was a twenty-four year old youth minister I tried to rent a fifteen passenger van for our summer mission trip, but was too young to do so. Our church decided to purchase a fifteen passenger van...
by ccvadmin | May 5, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 36 (May 5, 2020) One of my favorite songs by the Talking Heads is their 1981 hit “Once in a Lifetime.” In addition to its addictive groove (just try not to move while listening to it), it contains insightful lyrics about waking up one day...
by ccvadmin | May 4, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 35 (May 4, 2020) In arguably one of the best songs of the latter twentieth century, a song I cannot ever remember not knowing, James Taylor’s 1970 masterpiece “Fire and Rain” there is a vulnerable prayer: “Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus?...
by ccvadmin | May 3, 2020 | News
Christ Episcopal Church, Valdosta “The Shepherd and Guardian of Your Souls” (1 Peter 2:24-25) May 3, 2020 Dave Johnson In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Today is one of my favorite Sunday’s of the year, Good Shepherd Sunday, when we are reminded that...
by ccvadmin | May 1, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 34 (May 1, 2020) One of my favorite Shakespearean monologues is in his tragedy Macbeth, when Macbeth, having succumbed to his murderous ambition reflects: “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the...
by ccvadmin | Apr 30, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 33 (April 30, 2020) One of the many powerful prayers in The Book of Common Prayer is this: “Almighty God, to whom our needs are known before we ask: Help us ask only what accords with your will; and those good things which we dare not, or in our...
by ccvadmin | Apr 29, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 32 (April 29, 2020) One of the most tender acts of love there is, is when someone gently wipes away the tears from another’s face. It is an act of love that overflows with care and compassion. Perhaps right now you can think of a time when...
by ccvadmin | Apr 28, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 31 (April 28, 2020) The great English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) concluded his famous poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,–that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” When you see something...
