Blog – DAVE GIPSON

The Downside of “Talented”

BlogMay 17, 202313Views 0Likes 0Comments

I’ve been working on a full-scale musical now in that chair, in front of that keyboard pictured above for about 10 years now. Writing a show is a long process of stops and starts. You create songs you thought were great and then the next day realize are mediocre and discard them. The past several…

The universe is not coming to help you

BlogJanuary 4, 20232Views 0Likes 0Comments

I’ve noticed that when people stop believing in God, they don’t stop believing in everything. They usually replace Him with something inferior: a do-it-yourself religion of their own creation. These are the New Pagans, and what they worship is the earth and nature. But since they grew up used to the Personal God of…

The Nicest Thing I Could Say

BlogDecember 17, 20224Views 0Likes 0Comments

It’s amazing that someone as lovable as me can make people mad. I mean, come on… I’m adorable, right? Seriously, people always get mad at me when I write or preach against things that are unBiblical. Recently, it was a piece I wrote about how there’s no reason to believe pets will be in heaven.…

Handwriting on the Wall

BlogDecember 9, 202211Views 0Likes 0Comments

When we moved into our new home in Florida last year, I noticed something that looked like a doorbell on two of our door frames. Later when my girls were watching the musical Fiddler On The Roof with me, I suddenly realized what they were. “Do you see those little rectangular boxes on the top…

I Don’t Think it Means What You Think It Means

BlogNovember 7, 20226Views 0Likes 0Comments

If Christianity is so wonderful, why are some Christians such jerks? Good question. I know people who’ve been put off from Christianity mainly because of some “Christians” they’ve met. They see people say really dumb things and attribute it to their Christian faith. They watch believers being hateful toward someone who believes differently from them.…

Dear victims,

BlogOctober 20, 20229Views 0Likes 0Comments

Dear victims, You need to understand something about the pain you are feeling. Someone has hurt you, misused you, or abused you. You are right to feel wounded, and I'm sincerely grieved for what has happened to you. However, there is great danger in those wounds you're nursing right now. Sometimes the pity and sympathy…

Dear Control Freak…

BlogAugust 1, 20221View 0Likes 0Comments

…just stop it already. Right now. Seriously. You know who you are. You’re the ones “setting people straight” on social media and correcting their opinions. You were the ones in the pandemic who pointed out when people stood 5 feet away from someone instead of 6. You scolded us every time we touched our…

Divine mistakes

BlogJuly 30, 20225Views 0Likes 0Comments

We pray for our lives to go smoothly. We beg God to stay with our plan and keep to our schedule. But sometimes God wants our plans to fall apart so His plan can go into action. When I lead a worship service, I plan every detail out specifically. I respect people’s time, so I…

A dusty old book

BlogJuly 29, 20221View 0Likes 0Comments

I’ve noticed that my friends from outside the church usually only bring up God with me in times of crisis. They look at me oddly when I talk about death as a positive thing, and about actually yearning for heaven. From their curious stares, you’d think I’d just said I believed in Middle Earth and would…

Stubborn love

BlogJuly 28, 20224Views 0Likes 0Comments

My mom has always been a source of gentle humor in our family. Whenever she got amazed or exasperated by something, Mom would try to say, “Well …” — probably meaning to eventually say “well, I never.” Instead, all that came out was a “wuh” noise. Then she would say it repeatedly, in a sort…

To those who disagree, you’re missing something (…)

BlogJuly 21, 20225Views 0Likes 0Comments

It’s ok that we don’t agree. In spite of the culture trying to polarize us into opposite camps, it is possible to disagree and still be friends. Notice I didn’t say it’s easy. Just possible. And all that depends on three little dots (…) Have you noticed those three dots blinking when someone is texting…

WE ARE THE RULE

BlogJune 28, 202215Views 0Likes 0Comments

Tonight I’m icing my knee. It’s the end of the day and my body has several smaller injuries - a jammed thumb, a sore shoulder. But the knee is getting the attention first. That’s where our foster child, a seven-year old boy with an amazing amount of strength and anger, kicked me as hard as…