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About Ivy

Ivy Bishop works for JoyDance Ministries. She's married to Gary Bishop and is the mother of two grown children, Jonah and Hannah. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and is a member of First Baptist Church Hillsborough. Ivy has been diagnosed bi-polar, and is very happy to share that Jesus Christ is her source of joy!

Who Turned On The Rain?

And away we go…as we walk, the clouds gather up and it begins to rain. Well, isn’t that a fine”howdy-do” on the first day of our trip! We figured that when this trip began the sun would be shining to beat the band, shining so brightly that we’d need to dig sunglasses out of the […]

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Let’s Pray! …And Then We Set Out!

When a group in our church goes on a trip, we pray in the vehicles before we leave the parking lot. Do you do that every day? I don’t, and I think I should. Even if I’m alone, I should probably be praying before I crank up. Hmmm, something to remember, yes?  So, before we […]

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One Last Item …Your Passport!

There is one more item that you’ll need to pack for our summer road trip – your passport. This is the most important item by far, so you’ll need to put it someplace very secure. It has to be guarded and must be with you at all times.  The Spirit guards this item best, so […]

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Let’s Pack! Part Two

We’re packing for a summer road trip with Christ. We’ve given Him our hearts as Christians, and for some reason we were still sitting in our cells even though the door was opened. We had placed self-imposed chains on ourselves, and even though they weren’t locked we sat there, believing the lie of each chain. […]

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Let’s Pack!

We’re going to take the online road trip on this blog. I believe that this is the best way to go, so that everyone will be on the trip as well! To recap, God is calling us to come away with Him on a summertime road trip. We’re volunteering to walk out of our jail cells. Remember? […]

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Want To Take An Online Road Trip?

What spiritual season are you in? Are you in a rut, doing the same thing over and over and over? Are you suffering from burnout? Are you zealous right now, with a passion for everything Jesus and everyone knowing Jesus? Or do you just not care for any of it? As Christians, we go from […]

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The Sound of Falling Chains

There we were, all cozy with sin and all.  We were hating what we did but when it came down to it, as soon as the temptation was thrown in our faces we succumbed to it.  Too easily.  In fact, we were such an easy score for the enemy that he didn’t have to make […]

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The Fullness of The Cross

On Good Friday my heart is full, is your heart full, too?  The very idea that the perfect Son of God would willingly put on skin, come to earth, and die a cruel death so that I can actually be one with Him makes me speechless.  This amazing, holy gift of His death (which I […]

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The High Cost of Prayer

This blog entry is for those who believe and have confessed that Jesus is LORD.  Those who are bipolar and those who are not.  Those who are depressed and those who are not.  Children of God – no matter who you are or where you live, all those who adore and believe Jesus is the […]

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Christ In Spring

“I wandered lonely as a cloud / that floats on high o’er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / a host, of golden daffodils; / beside the lake, / beneath the trees, / fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” The beauty of spring is making me think of this […]

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