Bittersweet Farm

Bittersweet Farm

Current Thoughts

Apple Pie Time

Filed Under: Current Thoughts, Faith and Family

It’s the season of Pumpkin Pie and Apple Pie. On the way home from speaking up north we took a few minutes to stop at Parshallville Mill. The owner showed us around the mill and I snapped this picture of fresh apple pies ready to ship. I imagined a fresh piece with coffee. There are two thousand dollars worth of fresh apple pies here. The owners drive to South Haven for the apples and bake them at the mill. If you want to take a nice little autumn day-trip it’s worth a drive. The Mill is just south of Fenton. The cider and cinnamon-sugar donuts are so good they will make you cry.

Pie at Parshalville

My Love Language

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Hopes Book

I like to buy books for people I love when I can. I like to think that years after I’m gone they will pick them up and remember my love for them. Last week I was speaking up near the Lelenau Peninsula in northern Michigan. Hope and I strolled into a little book shop and I found her a nice hard-cover of Charlotte’s Web. I inscribed it for her. She had it read in a couple days.

Hope Inscription

I Was Wrong

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Craddock on Call to PreachI had lunch with a young man this week who has visited Evangel at least twice. He said that it is not the kind of church he would usually visit, but so many of the people that he knows who attend here are so nice that he had to come and see what it was like. He has returned with his family. I hope one day they will be a part of the family here. Simple Christian faithfulness, kindness, sincerity, integrity are powerful things. They draw others to investigate the things of God. [Read more…] about I Was Wrong

Lou Sutera

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Sunday night I spoke with Lou Sutera on the phone. I would like to have him speak at Evangel some day. We are considering a meeting on prayer. Would you come?

An Evening by the Fire

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If you had an evening to spend by the fire with anyone, who would it be and why? What do you find fascinating in people? Their talent, their knowledge, their personality, their kindness, their listening ability, their experiences, their tastefulness, their generosity? What is it about people that is attractive to you? Think of it for a minute. Every quality we admire in others was true first and ultimately and in perfection in God. He is the source of everything we find fascinating. Who made Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and gave them their gifts? Who created music? God did. Who first made the mountains, the streams, the oceans and lights and the sky that painters paint? Who made the woman with breath taking beauty and the man with awesome power and coordination? I’ll tell you. It was a God of breath-taking beauty awesome in power. He is attractive. He is winsome. You will never tire of Him. He is infinitely admirable and ultimately fascinating.

heaven-coverRandy Alcorn in his wonderful book called Heaven said it this way: “All secondary joys are derivative in nature. They cannot be separated from God. Flowers are beautiful for one reason—God is beautiful. Rainbows are stunning because God is stunning. Puppies are delightful because God is delightful. Sports are fun because God is fun. Study is rewarding because God is rewarding. Work is fulfilling because God is fulfilling.”

Paul knew that. That is why he said, “When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:1-4)

Ken Pierpont
Granville Cottage
Riverview, Michigan
October 5, 2009

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