The Forest We have a small home in the forest, actually The Forest. When they planned our neighborhood someone did two brilliant things for which I am grateful every day. They left hundreds of old trees standing and they “bent” the streets. They call our neighborhood “The Forest.” Within a few weeks of moving here […]
Godly Selfishness
Date: June 24, 2012 AM Title: Godly Selfishness Speaker: Ken Pierpont Series: Matthew’s Gospel Text: Matthew 16:24-27
Savor Summer
A Silvery Morning I hope you all are savoring summer. What a beautiful gift from God it is. On a recent morning walk I noticed a silvery quality on the cool morning air. As I walked along the edge of the woods a magnetic fragrance slowed my pace and at the same time the clear, […]
Manliness
What Makes a Man a Man? • Achieving Eagle Scout? • Heavy-lifting? • Being a stand-out, first-string athlete? • Being tough and never showing weakness? • Sexual conquests? • Able to hold your liquor? • Impressive facial hair? • Being able to wire, plumb, mud dry-wall and rebuild an engine? Challenges Over the last few […]
A Shocking Lesson
Date: June 17, 2012 AM Title: A Shocking Lesson Speaker: Ken Pierpont Series: Matthew’s Gospel Matthew 16:21-27
Wesley’s New Recording
This is original music by our son, Wesley. Pretty creative and convicting stuff. Let me know what you think. You can listen here
Perfect Peaches
On State Route 13 near the little village of St. Louisville, Ohio, just where the North Fork Licking River snakes under the highway south of the village, an old gas station stood between the railroad and the highway. It hadn’t been a working gas station for many years. On the mid-summer afternoon twenty years ago […]
Things I Love About Being a Pastor
It was beautiful last night. There was a light breeze. The sky was clear and the sun was setting. Hazard took me on a long walk and I got to thinking about being a pastor. On August 11 I will have been a pastor 34 years. I pastored my first church when I was seventeen. […]
I Will Build My Church
Date: June 10, 2012 PM Title: I Will Build My Church Speaker: Ken Pierpont Series: Matthew’s Gospel Text: Matthew 16:13-20
Willful Blindness
Date: June 3, 2012 AM Title: Willful Blindness Series: Matthew’s Gospel Text: Matthew 16:1-12 Speaker: Ken Pierpont Place: Evangel Baptist Church–Taylor, Michigan