http://kenpierpont.com Home of the Stonebridge Newsletter Fri, 16 May 2008 10:35:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our four daughters sang on a television station in Kentucky last night. If you would like to watch the broadcast it as archived at www.wljc.com. Click on the Monday night May 12 link to watch the broadcast. Let me know what you think. The host speaks for about twelve minutes ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/wljccom/ Before summer ends you might want to consider reading The Shaping of A Christian Home by Elizabeth Elliot. She writes beautifully of her family summer cottage in Franconia, Maine. She mentions, as I recall, that every family should have a place to get away together. The summer ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/a-camping-memory/ I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice, And it told Thy love to me; But I long to rise in the arms of faith, And be closer drawn to Thee. Draw me nearer, nearer blessèd Lord, To the cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer blessèd Lord, To Thy precious, bleeding ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/draw-me-nearer/ This morning I discovered a post on my Dad's site about his mother and growing up. It is good writing and a fascinating story. I am working on a book based on the farm my grandparents bought in the fifties. I may call it Licking County Farm. http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/family-stories/ I borrowed this post from the TeamPyro... Read on and you will see why Spurgeon is still on my top shelf and always will be. One day I will add a set of The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit to my library. For now I have to settle for my digital version. In ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/itching-ears/ Last night one of our missionaries, P. V. Joseph, spoke at Evangel. He is a church-planter and educator in India. He invited me to speak to the graduation at his Bible School. There will be over a thousand people at the graduation. There will be an opportunity to train national ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/run-to-india/ (In 2005 I wrote this letter to my mother for Mother's Day) Thank you for all you have done for so many years for all of us and for Dad. You have put music in our lives every day. You have put bread on the table. Above all, ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/dear-mom/ Next week the girls head to Kentucky on a pre-tour tour. In June they will be doing their Kentucky Mountain Parkway Tour. They will sing on TV, porches, churches, the street, Hoedown Island at Daniel Boone State Park, Bethany Children's Home in Breathitt County, and other places. They will start ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/pre-tour-tour/ It’s a nice warm day in the Downriver by Sunday morning the lilacs will have burst into bloom here at the church. While spring is bursting into life around us it seems that we have been visited with dying of late. On the way home from the church to Granville ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/05/we-will-never-die/ [gallery] Mexico--May 2006 In May 2006 I skipped my graduate school commencement and Chuk skipped his college graduation ceremony to take advantage of a missionary opportunity. Our family went with an evangelistic team to Mexico. One evening we visited a tiny, humble village on Lake Chapala. Most of the streets in ... http://kenpierpont.com/2008/04/the-simple-joy-of-missions/