Good News for Those Who Need Good News

I sat down knowing I had a deadline looming. It was early on a Saturday morning. The rest of the gang was still asleep. I turned to my reading plan and moved my finger across the date. Isaiah 61. I smiled. The chapter I’ve prayed more than any other. My...

When Kindness Changes Your Story

I was 25 and thought I knew it all. I was in a ministry job at a church I love. But I was prideful and arrogant and stubborn. And so I had to learn the hard way. During a meeting with the leadership above me, I displayed my immaturity in an embarrassing way. They...

More Than the Clothes In Your Closet

I am a bit fashion-impaired. Left to my own devices, I would wear running shorts and my favorite t-shirt that is roughly eight year old every day. (Except during the months of January and February where I would wear sweat pants and my old fuzzy blue bath robe all the...

How God Organized Our Life to GO with Him to Mississippi

Happy Sunday morning! In this video, Rip tells the story in how God started back in August 2015, really organizing our life, getting us more focused and intentional, to get us here in Mississippi. We knew “change” was coming, but had NO idea what that...

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By the sound of harp strings, my phone let’s me know when I have a text. But it’s when I see “My Rip” across the top of the screen that I smile. I never know what he’s going to send … things he may need me to do, some little...