The Road to Emmaus (Easter Sermon) Evangel Baptist Church-Taylor, Michigan Pastor Ken Pierpont March 29, 2016 AM
A Warm Gesture
In 1994 we leased a big farm house in west Knox County, Ohio near our church. It was a huge 4500 square foot drafty barn of a house which was heated with fuel oil. We loved the space, the great hardwood floors, the big windows looking out on the fields and all the room for […]
Hope for a Dying World
Grabbed a plate of hash browns and some coffee today in a local coffee shop…. This week you can feel something different in the air. Spring comes slowly and deliberately to Michigan. But it comes. The redbuds won’t open and the dogwoods won’t blossom, the flowering pear won’t flower until mid-May but still, the days […]
Daffodils in the Corner of the Parking Lot
You only are the maker of all things near and far. You paint the wayside flower, you light the evening star. The wind and waves obey you, by you the birds are fed; much more to us, your children, you give our daily bread. -Matthias Claudius Yesterday was Palm Sunday and the first day of […]
The God of the Bible is the Judge of the Universe (Rev. 14)
The God of the Bible is the Judge of the Universe (Revelation 14:1-20) Evangel Baptist Church-Taylor, Michigan March 20, 2016 Pastor Ken Pierpont
The Yellow Envelope
In my desk drawer for years in a file marked “Children’s Birth Certificates” is a yellow business-sized envelope. The envelope held a stack of eight cards little blue cards—the children’s social security cards. The stack has been getting thinner year by year and the children enter the workforce and they begin to manage more and […]