11:00 AM
Ken Pierpont
Series: Straight Answers for Honest Questions; Matthew 7:13-27
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What About Wrongs Done In The Name of Jesus?
How To Have An Influence For Christ in Relationships
06:00 PM
Ken Pierpont
Series: The Little Red Book of Church; Titus 3
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First things First
I love to gather people’s stories.
I was visiting one of our parishioners the other day. She told me about a time that she was having a kidney stone attack. She called her mother to take her to the emergency room. Her mother hurried over. They raced toward the hospital. Suddenly her mother slowed and said, “I need to get a cup of coffee.” She pulled into Duncan Donuts and ordered a cup of coffee then proceeded to the hospital so her daughter could seek treatment for her kidney stone attack.
She and her daughter were sitting in the room chuckling about the incident so the sting must have gone out of the wound by now and the daughter recovered. I knew two things. Like me, she was a coffee lover. Unlike me, she had never had a kidney stone attack.
If you are going through a painful experience right now take comfort in the fact that you are being equipped to comfort others in a very powerful way. When you have passed through your suffering you will be powerfully equipped to help others who are suffering in a deep way.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
Ken Pierpont
Granville Cottage
Riverview, Michigan
June 19, 2008
What It Means To Be A Man
11:00 AM
Ken Pierpont; Father’s Day 2008
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Rock Solid
06:00 PM
Brian Hess; NGO Dedication Service (Psalm 62)
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She Testifies in Church
Our daughters Holly, Heidi, Hannah, and Hope are singing this month in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Last week one of the places they sang was Pigeon Roost Community House of Prayer. It was a tiny, neat church hidden in the hills of Kentucky, hill after green, forested hill from a town of any size. The girls have become such flatlanders living in Michigan that they usually arrive at their engagements green as the surrounding mountains.
They recovered enough to sing. When they sang, each of the girls testified. When they were done the pastor said he would like to hear their mother testify. Lois is reluctant to speak in public but when she does it is always sweet and meaningful. She stood to her feet and gave public thanks to the Lord Jesus for his goodness. When Lois was done the pastor said, “Well, now we’ve heard from each of the girls and the mother. Now I would like the grandmother to testify.”
Lois is reluctant to speak in public, but her mother never speaks in public – never. She is so quiet publically it is hard for her to order in a restaurant.
Lois and Holly both immediately started to intervene to save Grandma Allene from embarrassment, but before they could she stood up and delivered a flawless testimony of her dependence on Jesus and her gratitude to Him. She is almost seventy and it was the first time in her life that she ever gave a public testimony. On the way home she said, “These are my people down here in these hills. It’s not hard for me to talk to them.”
I’ve heard people in Kentucky, when they are referring to someone as a devout believer, say, “She’s a fine Christian, why she even testifies in Church.”
Ken Pierpont
Granville Cottage
Riverview, Michigan
June 9, 2008
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