As I write it’s Monday morning. I’ve had a wonderfully exhausting weekend, driving north and preaching five times, and a restful night. It’s a cold winter day outside. I only know because I let Hazard out for minute or two before ducking back into the warm security and comfort of our home. Now I want to write.
I realize more and more that I am probably not a writer who speaks, but I am a speaker who writes. But I do and I will write and work hard at writing for …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

It is the 28th of December and I’ve just stepped into my study. I’m hanging my new 2012 calendars today, but my heart is tender when my eye falls on the page that was December.
Never before have I had such sweet sadness after Christmas. Maybe it’s that a couple of our children now live a long way away and it is so hard to work out times to be together.
More and more the family is growing up and they are launching off and that’s as it should be. …

Check out the Tebow Family Website
This has been my most popular blog post ever Our family has great admiration for the Tebow family and how they have devoted their lives to the honor of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We used the same home-education program to train our families so we have followed Tim Tebow and his family with great interest. Since you surfed in I hope you will take a few minutes to check out some of my writing while you are here. There are over 1000 original …

We ventured out yesterday to our tree farm. I have the ultimate Christmas-tree-getting vehicle—a Jeep Cherokee, fire-engine red. On days like this it seems like a bright, festive sleigh. We bundled up, plugged in some Christmas music and we were on our way. Hazard made the trip with us for the second year in a row. He was on his best behavior, except that in his excitement he threw up on the floor. On the farm are a couple large, athletic hounds. He wanted out be we feared for their …

This was the sign we made for the Pine Street Parsonage in Fremont, Michigan. I believe the graphic was made by my brother, Kevin, for our original web-site. Larry Barber created the sign for us. I still have it in my study where it reminds me to pray for the good folk at First Baptist Church in Fremont and remember the kindness of the people, the good had of God and the memories of Fremont we will always treasure. Hope America was born in Fremont at the Gerber Hospital.
While …

A couple years ago I wrote some Thanksgiving thoughts. I’ve reposted them here to help start your Thanksgiving Week.
One thing I have observed in thirty years of ministry to people, some of whom have lived through the Great Depression or forded other deep, fast waters in life is this: Hard times can be good times if we stick together.
Another Thanksgiving is here. It’s a sweet, simple, unadorned holiday. The purpose is to gather with those you love and give thanks to our Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, and Lover of our …

It’s early and I have a full day starting with an early hospital call, meetings, people who need a visit from their pastor, two messages and a Sunday School lesson to prepare for, counseling and a dinner meeting all ahead of me today. I wanted to get an issue of the Stonebridge Newsletter out to you before my creativity was crushed with business.
Toward Prayer Meeting time last night the wind blew hard. Even the stubborn, now-yellow leaves in the Red Maple in the backyard were yielding their grip and …