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I grew up in a fairly conventional family in what’s known as the Bible Belt of America. My dad drove to the same job every day for nearly 40 years, and mom was usually there when I walked home from school every afternoon. Then I played outside untethered until the streetlights came on each evening.…
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The saying “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink” is most likely the oldest English proverb still in use today. It was recorded as far back as 1175 in Old English Homilies. From the title of the book, the saying was old even in the 1100s. But it still applies, especially…
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas from the Gipsons!
There’s a odd hush that comes upon a town at Christmas Eve.
It’s not that people aren’t still working. Those days when everyone got off work for Christmas are long gone. But a calm still manages to descend as families gather, and the majority of stores shut off their lights and workers head home.
That’s…
So as the joke goes, “A baptist pastor dies and goes to heaven…”
But inevitably the day finally came that I did. Right now, I’m standing by a roadside. But I don’t know how I got here.
Everything looks different, but also strangely familiar. There are flowers, trees, grass, and sky, but not like…
I’m sitting in a sanctuary of around 1500 people this Sunday morning. But I feel completely alone.
We had just been through a whirlwind of death and then disappointment the previous year. Now we were in-between where we had been and where we were going. And we had no idea where that was.
This…
Dave's message about the importance of gratitude, recorded live at North Naples Baptist Church, Naples, FL
On Youtube, there is a video of a camel falling into a crowd of people during a church Christmas production. It is in turns hilarious and terrifying to watch, as the huge beast stumbles and sits down on a section of pews. Thankfully, the crowd moved out of the way quickly and no one was…
There’s a certain odd hush that comes upon a town at Christmas Eve.
It’s not that people aren’t still working. Those days when everyone got off work for Christmas are long gone. But a calm still manages to descend as families gather, and the majority of stores shut off their lights and workers head home.…
I was in a staff meeting for a secular job once, and our company was exploring ways to help us “get in touch with ourselves spiritually”. Even with two master’s degrees in religion, I wasn’t totally sure what that meant. But I was happy to be employed, so I pasted a smile on my face…