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.
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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 …