I was up in the night and able to see the moonlight as it arched across the sky in the wee hours of the morning of Christmas Eve. Now I’m up and about and it’s foggy, but I’m heartened by brass carols, and the knowledge that the northern hemisphere where I live is leaning toward […]
Always Winter and Never Christmas (Video)
Always Winter But Never Christmas Series: Go Tell It December 19, 2021 AM Ken Pierpont | Lead Pastor
In My Humble Opinion…
IN MY HUMBLE OPINION. —Invest in black Eddie Bauer T shirts. Short-sleeved in spring and summer. Long-sleeved in fall and winter. One less decision every day. “Legend-wash.” —Stretch Levi’s or stretch Wranglers. You look manly but you are really wearing jammies. They are wonderful. —Keen shoes. Nothing better for a guy built like a Clydesdale. […]
The Kingdom of Light is Greater (Video)
The Kingdom of Light is Greater (Go Tell It Christmas Series) Bethel Church-Jackson, Michigan Ken Pierpont | Lead Pastor December 12, 2021
The Sacrament of the U-Haul Trailer
There was a time I could put everything I owned in a VW Beetle and still have room for a passenger. That was a few years in many thousands of blessings ago. The spring of our first year of marriage Lois and I started back to college—everything we owned fit in a small U-Haul trailer […]
Is My Heart the Temple of the Holy Spirit?
If you know me, you know I love the outdoors. It is a place where I meet God and have a powerful sense of the presence of God. I have had some of my most meaningful worship experiences outdoors. Sunday I preached a Christmas message about wandering under the night winter sky and wondering about […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal | December 8, 2021 | And Christmas Came
Out on Bittersweet tonight there is a light dust of snow on the ground an it is cold outside. Lois is listening to the news and weather and pouring candles and intermittently singing. I love it when she is happy. It warms the whole house. I’m up in the corner of my cozy room in […]
Under A Winter Sky (Video)
Series: Go To It, Christ is Born Under the Winter Sky Bethel Church | Jackson, Michigan Ken Pierpont-Lead Pastor December 5, 2021 AM
Under A Winter Sky (Audio)
Series: Go To It, Christ is Born Under the Winter Sky Bethel Church | Jackson, Michigan Ken Pierpont-Lead Pastor December 5, 2021 AM
Bittersweet Farm Journal | December 2, 2021 | A Christmas Fight
Last Sunday when I got home from church it was sunny and warm enough for me to brush the last of the leaves from the flowerbeds and coil the hose for the winter. This Sunday we awoke to three inches of snow. I rose at five and plowed and two days later I plowed an […]