lisa rippy

Swiss Coffee, Greek Villa, Snowbound … How to Select a White Paint?

By lisa rippy / September 12, 2023

There is a color for walls that seems to be growing in popularity and as I talked with a woman in Hobby Lobby recently, it was a color that I just had to share with her. She had mentioned, while on the phone with her friend, that she had used…

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5 Tips to Help Set Up Your Kitchen…and a GREAT RECIPE!

By lisa rippy / September 8, 2023

With the fall approaching, I’m already staging and stocking our kitchen with the appliances, cookbooks, pots, pans, utensils, decorations, and table/island settings. So here are a FIVE tips to help set up your Kitchen for the new season: 1) Wash CrockPots, InstaPots, Dutch Ovens and Woks. If some of these…

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5 Day ReFresh Retreat

By lisa rippy / September 8, 2023

While writing this post, my heart is full of anticipation of a 5-day retreat with the LORD that only His Sovereign Providence has graciously planned! To be alone with the LORD in His Word, enjoying His nature, and to be alone in an intentional silence in order to think, to…

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The Sticks and Stones of Backstabbing, Betrayal, Slander

By lisa rippy / August 31, 2023

The saying, “Sticks and stones my break my bones but words will never hurt me,” is a children’s rhyme that was created to be used as a defense against verbal bullying by remaining calm and indifferent. However, “words will never hurt me,” is not what we find in Scripture. Our…

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Patience in Affliction – Charles Spurgeon Devotional

By lisa rippy / August 30, 2023

It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures that a Christian soldier cannot learn without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier for God’s warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desiring to…

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Elders and Deacons in the Life of the Church

By lisa rippy / August 26, 2023

All of my Southern Baptist life, each church where I have been a member had a staff of pastoral/leadership and a body of deacons. Church members served as bible study teachers and served in other areas of ministerial needs such as church-wide events, within the prayer ministry, homebound ministry, and…

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The Ultimate Friend

By lisa rippy / August 25, 2023

As I got to the office this morning, I read today’s devotional from Truth for Life and it blessed me and encouraged me so much, that I wanted to share it with you.     “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater…

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The Blessings of Forgiveness – 3 Part Series

By lisa rippy / August 25, 2023

A person is never more noble and never more like God than when he forgives someone. That is the most godlike thing we can do. There is nothing more glorious that a person can do for another person than to forgive. A truly godly person will be known because he…

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Are Women Given Teaching Authority Over Men?

By lisa rippy / August 24, 2023

The Fall of 2022, I taught a bible study at our local church that I had written; “Living Certain in an Uncertain World – An Expositional Study of 1,2,3, John.” As the time to begin teaching was drawing closer, the suggestion to teach a coed class was considered.  Since 1999,…

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I Will Rejoice – by Charles Spurgeon

By lisa rippy / August 23, 2023

“I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.” Isaiah 65:19 In heaven the glorified do not weep, for all outward causes of grief are gone. There are no broken friendships, nor unfulfilled…

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