About twenty-five years ago I was on staff at Fulkerson Park Baptist Church in Niles, Michigan. Today the church is in very good hands. Their pastor is Brian Hedges. He is a gifted writer and he is dead-on with the gospel. He has written a helpful article on how to present the gospel to children. […]
Weak Praying
Sunday morning I preached to Evangel on why our prayers are weak. This message will help you understand why God allows trouble and what to do when you have to go through it. It explains how to glorify God and what it means to glorify God. https://kenpierpont.com/evaudio/20090222_Ken_Pierpont_Why_Our_Prayers_Are_Weak.mp3 (Thanks, Bob for fixing the link)
Coffee to the Glory of God
I was reading John Piper’s practical book; “When I Don’t Desire God” and I found a humorous reference to coffee. Read on: “The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be so. Before electricity and radio and television and the Internet, going […]
Praying Women
Things have been hard in Flint, Michigan for a long time. It has a rich and fascinating history, but it is a shell of what it used to be. In the 1980’s as the local economy suffered through an early downturn in General Motors, the City and other interested parties joined together to build the […]
Cynics and Drought
In the summer of 1988 Central Ohio experienced the most severe drought in 50 years. We lived in a farming community there where many of the people depended on the abundance of their grain yields from year to year, just staying ahead of the interest on their payments to keep their farms and equipment, and […]
He’s in the Word!
A white pastor was a visiting preacher at a predominantly African-American church. In the front row was in impeccably-dressed woman with white gloves. Any time he would refer to a passage of Scripture she would stand to her feet and shout, “He’s in the Word!” He was delighted and started to look for new ways […]
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