Blog – DAVE GIPSON

The Downside of “Talented”

BlogMay 17, 2023308Views 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…

CHOOSING CHAOS

Blog, parentingMay 9, 202333Views 0Likes 0Comments

I really wasn’t looking to adopt again, not at this point in life. Our two little girls are 8 and 9, and we’ve got grandkids now just a few years behind them. So at this point, I’ll be attending my kids’ graduation ceremonies using one of those walkers with the tennis balls on the legs!…

The universe is not coming to help you

BlogJanuary 4, 202384Views 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, 2022100Views 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, 2022121Views 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, 202295Views 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, 2022121Views 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…

Broken or Bitter

BlogSeptember 3, 202257Views 0Likes 2Comments

One day recently, I was in my office at church when a ministry friend stopped by at the door to chat. As we talked through the joys and pains of ministry, she reminisced about a particularly tough time in her husband's pastorate. After decades of faithful service to a congregation, some power brokers within their…

Dear Control Freak…

BlogAugust 1, 202263Views 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, 202289Views 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, 202248Views 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, 2022120Views 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…