Five Universal Human Longings (Psalm 139)
I love to preach on the Psalms. One of my favorites Psalms is Psalm 139. Early this summer I was asked to speak at my brother Kevin’s church in beautiful Higgins Lake, Michigan. While I was there I preached on Psalm 139 and he recorded it. Visit his audio page if you would like to listen to the message.
You can listen to my brother Kevin’s preaching while you are there!

ARE YOU CLOSE ENOUGH TO DRIVE?
Dr. Bill Thrasher is here this week for a series of Spiritual Enrichment. He will speak at 7:45 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The meetings are especially for those involved in the programs here but they are open to the public.
Dr. Thrasher has written three great books:
Living the LIfe God has Planned
A Journey to Victorious Praying
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This weekend I have also been re-reading The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis. Jerry is a great Michigan writer and the Great Lakes are a great subject.
I discovered a little autobiography of Vance Havner last week entitled “Three Score and Ten.” It’s a treasure. Vance Havner preached all over the country and wrote about a book a year for over twenty-five years. I have most of them, but I have never been able to get my hands on this one. I am enjoying …

When I was asked to do the job I currently have I knew it was humanly impossible for me to do what needed to be done. I told Mr. Gothard so.
I said, “I feel I am inadequate to do what you need me to do.”
He smiled and said, “Well, good. That way you will have to rely on the Lord.”

If you get a chance take a look at my wife’s xanga blog. She has some cute pictures there and a little surprise.

These pictures are of me (Ken Pierpont) and a litte girl named Lois Gail Hatton, when we were both about six years old. We wouldn’t meet for another twelve or thirteen years.

I am reading the complete works of Henry VanDyke. He is well-known as the author of “The Other Wise Man,” and the words to “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee.” I am currently reading the first of the eighteen-volume set: “Little Rivers.”
Little Rivers is a collection of outdoor essays. He writes of trout fishing and rivers and mountains and Heater in Scotland. The book is out of print. You can enjoy lazy afternoons brousing used book shops in hopes of finding a copy. It’s …

Kyle and Elizabeth Pierpont

I slept outside in a tent with the boys this weekend. The weather was ideal to sleep outdoors. The air was cool but not at all cold. The sky was clear. We enjoyed a fire each night including s’mores and a good-natured jumbo marshmallow war. We slept as well as you can on the hard ground, but well enough to sleep in until awakened as I suppose our Creator intended, by the first light of morning through branches of oak and pine and the natural …

Here is a little bonus. About five years ago I send a pastoral epistle to the church that I founded with a few other families in beautiful central Ohio. Here is that letter: