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10 Ideas for Your Fall Tables

By lisa rippy / September 14, 2023

What is it about the calendar saying “September” that nudges us to peruse through magazines and Pinterest boards looking for fall-ish menus, fall-ish fashion, and fall-ish home décor? I even found myself the other day walking in the back of our land, noticing all the changes in nature and thinking,…

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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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Have You Thought About? – Part 2

By lisa rippy / September 10, 2023

He was nearing 70 years old and was quite the seasoned listener. Some even said he had a ‘gift’ in listening because he wouldn’t interrupt. Ever. He would simply sit and smile, while giving the most caring eye contact while listening and not just hearing whoever came to him for…

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Have You Thought About – Part 1

By lisa rippy / September 8, 2023

A storm rolls in right around the time it was forecasted…so we’re glad we remembered our umbrella. A baby is born close to their due date…so we’re thankful the nursery is ready. A house closes on the day and time as planned…so we’re glad we don’t have to reschedule the…

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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 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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