Keira Lee Hancock
This week we were surprised with the birth of our third grandchild, a tiny, beautiful, perfect little girl. Her name is Keira Lee Hancock. She was born on Tuesday to our daughter Heidi and her husband Austin in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She was born a few weeks earlier than we expected. She weighed five and a half pounds at birth and she was 18.5 inches tall. Word cannot tell the story so you might want to click here to see the photos of the young family. http://loispierpont.com/our-sweet-granddaughter-keira-lee/ We’ve …

When I was small, before my Grandfather Pierpont had retired from Owens Corning Fiberglass in Newark, we visited the farm one weekend. It was in those first few warm and wonderful days of summer. We suburban kids longed so deeply to feel the grass between our toes. We longed for the touch of the evening breeze on our face, the sun on our heads, the scent of things that grow.  We longed for a ride on the tractor-for a evening with our cane poles on the edge of the quiet …

Last weekend I spoke to about 200 teens at Camp Barakel. Among them was a large group of young people from Grace Church in Granger, Indiana, where our son Kyle is the Youth Pastor. It was a perfect winter weekend.
There is really no way to describe the fellowship, the birds outside the dining hall, the purity of the white snow, the sun rising over the frozen lake, the trees dusted with snow, the laughter of the campers, the fragrance of wood smoke hanging in the air, the warmth of …

Years ago, when I was going through a season of reaction and resistance to my leadership in a church, my brother Nathan was helping with music. He was living at home and attending college. Nathan came to church one particularly difficult evening and he had a note for me from Dad. It was a simple passage of Scripture to read: Ezekiel 2:4-5. Dad quickly jotted it on the back of his business card and sent it my way.
Before I went out to preach that night I looked up the …

If you don’t love you don’t really know your Bible and you don’t really know God. Love is the heart of God’s law.
Message: Blinded by Stubborn Legalism
Series: Matthew’s Gospel
Text: Matthew 12:1-14
Date: January 22, 2012 AM
Place: Evangel Baptist Church–Taylor, Michigan
Speaker: Pastor Kenneth L. Pierpont

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There is good religion and bad religion. In this talk I go after bad religion. Jesus had very little patience with bad religion. He saved his straitest talk for “Bad-religion pushers.”
Message: The Demonic Vortex of Legalism
Series: The Gospel of Matthew
Place: Evangel Baptist Church–Taylor, Michigan
Date: January 15, 2012
Speaker: Pastor Kenneth L. Pierpont

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This evening I came across this wonderful photo of my Dad preaching at Evangel for a Good Friday service. He as at his best that day. I just spent a few days alone with the Lord, just fostering fellowship with the Lord and spending time with Him.
Over and over I thanked Him for my faithful, godly parents. Driving home it occurred to me again how profoundly my parents have influenced me for good and for God and how deeply I love them.
Mostly …

Red Like Blood is a good read. I’m not going to take time for a review here, but I think it is very worth your time. If you like concrete narrative and good, gospel theology together, you will want to invest in this book. I read it on my Kindle and found it for 3.99.
There were a few places that just made me weep at the mercy of God and the sweetness of the gospel.
The language is salty in places and I think that is a bad trend and …

The Lord allowed me a couple quiet days away and alone with Him. They are coming to an end. Tomorrow I drive out and back downstate and Downriver back to family and church with a renewed love and devotion to the Lord and with a renewed conviction my deep need for Christ.
As I pillow my head tonight the great hymn And Can it Be rings in my heart…
My chains fell off!
My heart was free!
I rose went forth and followed Thee!

When I speak to young people, and I often do, I almost always tell them about Ann Kiemel’s 1979 book “I’m Out to Change My World.”
Ann Kiemel still writes and she still speaks. I think most of her books were aimed at young women, but her writing has always stirred up my heart to spread the love of Jesus. She writes an occasional blog-post in her unique small-case free-verse. Her posts have the honest rough-edge of reality to them.