Date: May 6, 2012 AM
Title: Inside-Out Holiness
Speaker: Ken Pierpont
Series: Matthew’s Gospel
Text: Matthew 15:1-20

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This week over eight thousand mostly young men are gathering for the Together for the Gospel Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The tweets are coming in about the conference and I am up at three in the morning wondering what dark force possessed me that I would fail to attend this conference. Every tweet is a sharp rebuke for my foolish neglect. What was I thinking?
In 2010 I stood with my son with tears streaming down my face and hands lifted bellowing gospel-laden songs with thousands of other men. I returned …

Have you ever thought that there is good swearing and there is bad swearing? Making a serious promise and talking dirty are both called swearing. Why?
Swearing is a good thing, it is serious promise-making, but when a good thing is perverted or distorted then it becomes a bad thing, and so it is with swearing. Realizing the evil roots of perverted swearing helps us understand why we use the term swearing for dirty speech.
Hebrews 6:16 says; For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for …

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 …

Do you long to influence people for Jesus Christ? Do you love God, the law of God and the gospel? Do you love this country? Are you concerned for what we are becoming? Do you have a deep inner desire for revival? You will want to take about a half-hour to watch this movie. Share it with others.

Classic re-post from 2002
If you know me you know I like to tell happy stories about good things. I like to tell stories of love and goodness. I make excuses for celebrations every day. I like to point others to God’s good gifts all around them. I find this especially easy to do when spring overcomes winter and when summer turns to autumn. Evidence of God’s goodness abounds in autumn. But sometimes even in the autumn heartache silences laughter and tears drown …

Tim Keller inspired me to preach a series of messages based on honset questions people have about the Bible and Christianity. His book The Reason for God got me thinking about it. This post is a link to my message on hell.
Re-posted from 2008
11:00 AMKen PierpontSeries: Straight Answers for Honest Questions; Luke 16:19-31

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I want to recommend a book I have not yet read. I bought it the other day, but I promised our son Daniel he could read the book first. He is training for ministry in Grand Rapids–the home of Rob Bell (No Hell Rob Bell). Some of his classmates have been enthusiastic about Rob Bell’s heresy about Hell.
He’s been reading Francis Chan’s new book on Hell–Erasing Hell. As we drive along he keeps asking questions and reading portions of the book. He quickly read half the book even while …

This morning I came upon this thoughtful article about young people who are raised in the church, leaving the church during their post-high school years. It’s worth your time.
Somehow I have a feeling that young people are not leaving the church because we didn’t have enough rules. They are not leaving the church because we didn’t try to schedule enough “fun.” That is all much of youth ministry has been for the last 30 years. It’s been the Christian “Party Plan.” Now thousands don’t take the church or the …

Last weekend (Thursday night through Saturday morning) I spoke in Canada to 200 men from the Lighthouse Gospel Church in Port Burwell, Ontario. The meeting was at a campground on the north shore of Lake Erie near Blenheim. It was a perfect weekend for a campout. These men were hungry for the things of God and they have a great appetite for the Word. They insisted on me preaching a minimum of an hour in each session.
Pastor Henry Wiebe is the pastor there and has been there for about …