{"id":26626,"date":"2011-11-25T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26626"},"modified":"2011-11-25T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T21:28:12","slug":"jim-rippeys-conversion-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26626","title":{"rendered":"Jim Rippey&#8217;s Conversion Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bilde-1-3.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bilde-1-3.jpeg','popup','width=550,height=468,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bilde-1-3-tm.jpg\" height=\"170\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bilde-1-3\" \/><\/a>For all his snowboarding feats of daring, we&#8217;ll always remember <strong>Jim Rippey<\/strong> for being the first guy to do a flip on a snowmobile and then immediately credit the Lord Jesus Christ. But that was then, now Rippey is an associate pastor at Grace Church in Reno, Nevada and, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierrasun.com\/article\/20111125\/NEWS\/111129943\/1066&amp;ParentProfile=1051\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, he doesn&#8217;t miss the pro shred life at all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI felt like the Lord spoke to my heart,\u201d said Rippey, a Truckee resident who was working in the Tahoe backcountry with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standardfilmstb20.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Standard Films<\/a><\/strong> at the time of his decision. . . \u201cThere were these younger kids who were trying to film some lines, and I was sitting there watching them and I remember the Lord spoke to my heart and said, \u2018Jim, you&#8217;ve been there, you&#8217;ve done that and you&#8217;ve done it at the highest level, and now it&#8217;s time to let go of it. I&#8217;ve got something else for you to do.&#8217;  . . . \u201cAnd I was just like, \u2018Wow, OK.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone that Rippey has gone in on his new life just has hard as he did his old. All we can say is, amen, bro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierrasun.com\/article\/20111125\/NEWS\/111129943\/1066&amp;ParentProfile=1051\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Sun<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all his snowboarding feats of daring, we&#8217;ll always remember Jim Rippey for being the first guy to do a flip on a snowmobile and then immediately credit the Lord Jesus Christ. But that was then, now Rippey is an associate pastor at Grace Church in Reno, Nevada and, according to a story in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26627,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26626\/revisions\/26627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}