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.

If you spend a weekend at Camp Barakel in the winter there are a few things you can count on. You will leave with a sweet taste in your mouth. Sticky buns are a tradition on Sunday morning. You will feed on the Word of God. You will sing Christ-honoring music. You will smell the tang of a wood fire, and you will meet people who sincerely love Our Savior, the Lord Jesus.
I think Jeremy Linsley is the man behind the Camp Barakel Twitter account. It’s worth following. A …

Our daughter Holly started a Facebook page for Christian girls who admire Tim Tebow. She has lived all her life in Michigan and Ohio and has become, first a Florida fan and now a Denver fan. What meaneth this? Read on:
Deep in my genetic make-up is a strand of loyalty to The Ohio State University Football Program. It’s almost involuntary. I was born and raised in Ohio listening to Ohio State football on autumn Saturday afternoons, when Woody was King of Ohio. Dad owned an old black Studabaker that he …

I try to pray daily that God will bring people across my path, or that I will find people who are open to the truth of God. If they are not I try to sow seeds of truth wherever I go but I am always praying that God will bring people into my life who are ready to listen and I am always ready to tell them the good news.
When that is your great love the people around you know it. They tend to send people your way.
On Wednesday …

If we aren’t careful, our Christianity can be a cover for pride. God hates pride. He resists pride. God used this message in a beautiful way at Evangel. Listen to it prayerfully. I trust that God will especially use it to draw you closer to Him.
Title: Worse Than Sodom
Text: Matthew 11:20-24
Place: Evangel Baptist Church–Taylor, Michigan
Date: January 8, 2012 AM
Speaker: Pastor Kenneth L. Pierpont

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I found this entry in an old journal today:
We are trying to teach Hope to sleep in her own bed. In April she will be five years old so she is used to sleeping with us. The other night we had her stay in her own bed in the girls room where all four girls sleep. She was not happy. She was crying so I went into her room and said; “Why are you crying, Hope?”
She said, “I don’t like sleeping in here. I don’t …

I noticed this little piece in an old journal from 2004 today.
I visited the doctor today. In the room waiting for him to arrive I read an article about a little, white clapboard Lutheran Church in Maine. Last year most of the church board got sick and one member died from poisoning. They discovered that someone had thrown a handful of arsnic into the coffee pot. Later that night a former board member took his life claiming responsibility for the deed.
They say he …

Series: Matthew’s Gospel
Message: What Kind of Doubter Are You?
Text: Matthew 11:1-19
Place: Evangel Baptist Church–Taylor, Michigan
Date: Sunday January 1, 2012
We baptized six people on New Year’s Day at Evangel. This message is about two kinds of doubters. Which are you?

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