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Archives for April 2018

Lessons From the Porch-Free Audio Book

Filed Under: Village Parson

Lessons From the Porch is a free audio book I created to share something that has profoundly shaped my care for people and ministry habits. I want to get it into the hands and hearts of as many pastors, elders, deacons, Sunday School workers, small group leaders and ministry leaders as I can. Please listen and feel free to share it with others. Here is is free-of-charge. It is one way I can seek first the Kingdom of God.

Chapter One; Racoons on A Cool Night

Chapter Two; A Forgotten Name

Chapter Three; Walking Around the Pond

Chapter Four; Dee Duke

Chapter Five; Numbers

Ken Pierpont
Bittersweet Farm
April, 2018

Pretty Clouds and Ugly Weather; Podcast #69

Filed Under: Story Podcast

Here is the first of six stories about an adventure we took a few summers ago. It was memorable for all the wrong reasons. It not an experience any of us would want to repeat, but it’s a memory none of want to forget all-together.

Ken Pierpont Storytelling Podcast

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Listening in the Night

Filed Under: Current Thoughts

It is April 5th this morning and there is a fine dust of snow on all the countryside around Bittersweet Farm this morning. A woke in the middle of the night. When I awaken in the night I’ve learned to listen quietly for the voice of God in my spirit. I may labor through the day among people or in the privacy of my study, but the “still, small, voice” often comes sweetly and clearly to my heart in the night or in the luminous glow of the moon behind the stark bare trees on a cold April morning.

I remembered this passage from Psalm 40:1-3 ESV:

I waited patiently for the LORD;
he inclined to me and heard my cry.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
and put their trust in the LORD.

Then a quote from Thomas a Kempis came to mind; “Make no great account who is for thee or against thee, but mind only the present duty and take care that God be with thee in whatsoever thou doest. Have a good conscience and God will defend thee, for he whom God will help no man’s perverseness shall be able to hurt.”

These words from the song I Christ Alone leaped into my soul: “…no power of hell, no scheme of man will ever pluck me from His hand. ‘Til He returns or calls me home, Here in the power of Christ I stand.”

Ken Pierpont
Bittersweet Farm
Summit Township, Michigan
April 5, 2018

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