Current Thoughts

My friend Neil Veydt stops into my study today fresh with the definition of serendipity on his tongue, a word which I assumed to mean a concurrence of one or more good things at the same time. I was close… Neal taught me (and Siri verified it) serendipity is: “The occurrence and development of events […]

  4. But If Not (Daniel 3) Bethel Church | Jackson, Michigan Ken Pierpont, Lead Pastor June 24, 2022 AM  

A letter to Bethel Church (June 2022) Your Local Church is More Powerful Than You Think. You may not realize it, but your greatest longing is for God—for the glory and the grandeur of God to dawn on your soul. God has designed the assembly for this very purpose. God’s Glory in Creation. There is […]

[Sunday June 12, 2022] I’m not sure I can adequately describe it, but there was a quiet sweetness of spirit in the building today at Bethel Church. Bethel Church is a place/a people devoted to love, to the word of the living God, and to worship. We have covenanted together to be kind and loving […]

[Sunday Evening, June 5, 2022] I’m sitting by the open window. The night is cool and the room is dark except for the small light on my desk and the glow of the monitor. The sun set on a perfect Lord’s Day an hour ago. Hope and Tim came to Bethel and shared diner with […]

A storm passed through this afternoon and when it cleared the evening was fresh all around out on Bittersweet. I should have taken a long walk but I delayed, the sun set, night fell and I missed my opportunity. Maybe I’ll walk in the morning. It’s peaceful here tonight, but it’s been a hard week. […]

  Blessed Men Remember the password is Blessed with a capital “B” “Blessed” (often written “blessèd” in poetry) is almost always pronounced with two syllables when used as an adjective. The verb form “blessed” (past tense and past participle) is almost always pronounced blest with one syllable. Here is a cool link on how to pronounce […]

Mother’s Day Tribute to Lois 2021. See this tribe–see the woman in the middle with the black dress and the pretty white hair? She is the mother of four sons and four daughters, grandmother to a growing group that will soon number seventeen grandchildren. On Sunday morning for many, many years, I got up, showered, got […]

My wife Lois grew up in Wolfe County Kentucky in the little village of Campton where she was born. Campton likes to call itself, “The Friendliest Little Town in the Mountains.” It’s more than a slogan. People really are friendly down there. It is situated in a beautiful part of the Bluegrass State. It’s nicely […]

I have been to schools, Bible schools, colleges, seminars and seminaries. I have read books and listened to and watched countless hours of lectures. No one has ever taught me more about the Bible than this woman, my mother, Jane A Pierpont. Every day of my life she not only talked about Jesus but with all […]