by ccvadmin | May 20, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 47 (May 20, 2020) One of the hardest sermons I have ever had to preach was at the funeral of a seventeen year old boy many years ago. He was funny, athletic, smart, and had lots of friends—but the cancer with which he was repeatedly stricken...
by ccvadmin | May 19, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 46 (May 19, 2020) In Cormac McCarthy’s award winning 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses John Grady Cole has a moving conversation with Duena Alfonsa, the grandaunt and godmother of Alejandra, the girl with whom he has fallen in love. Duena notices...
by ccvadmin | May 18, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace: May 18, 2020 In “An Order for Compline”, a beautiful brief liturgy for prayer found in The Book of Common Prayer and intended for use at the end of the day, there is powerful prayer for grace in times of uncertainty: “Be present,...
by ccvadmin | May 17, 2020 | News
Christ Episcopal Church, Valdosta “The Holy Spirit Your Advocate” (John 14:16-18) May 17, 2020 Dave Johnson In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is on your side. Even when it feels like everything is going wrong, God is on your side. Even when those...
by ccvadmin | May 15, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 44 (May 15, 2020) Of the many spaceships in the epic Star Wars movies my favorite has always been the Millennium Falcon, the ancient ship flown by Han Solo with his friend Chewbacca in the earlier films and by Rey and Finn in the later films. ...
by ccvadmin | May 14, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 43 (May 14, 2020) As you know, your sense of smell, olfactory sense, is especially powerful in triggering memories. A smell can instantly transport you back to specific moment in your life. These memories may be good—perhaps the smell of...
by ccvadmin | May 13, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 42 (May 13, 2020) In the spring of 1989 some college friends and I went to see the classic baseball movie Field of Dreams. It stars Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella, an Iowan farmer who in response to a voice that tells him, “If you build it, he...
by ccvadmin | May 12, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 41 (May 12, 2020) One of my favorite songs by the Beatles is “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”, penned by John Lennon and on their 1965 album Help! It describes something all of us have experienced at one time or another, a broken heart: “Here...
by ccvadmin | May 12, 2020 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 40 (May 11, 2020) Living many years of my life in Virginia, I often visited the magnificent Shenandoah National Park. As a kid every time we would drive there the excitement of seeing the mountains emerge from the horizon the closer we came...
by ccvadmin | May 9, 2020 | News
Christ Episcopal Church, Valdosta “Good News on Mother’s Day” (1 Peter 2:4-10) May 10, 2020 Dave Johnson In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. First of all, on this Mother’s Day, kudos to all the moms out there…there is not a more demanding or all-consuming...
