This one is in the I LOVE MY CHURCH category. Lyn Lehman and her husband Bill are long-time Bethel members. They are salt-of-the earth and delightful to know. Last year they invited us for a meal in their home and it was a delightful evening of food, conversation and prayer, crowned with singing around the […]
Bittersweet Farm Journal (Number 75) Chained in the Barn
Calendar Spring Yesterday was the first day of “Spring” out on Bittersweet Farm. The sun shone. The temperatures rose. The birds sang. The Sandhill Cranes flew over calling out with their crackling call as if to say; “Spring is coming. Spring is coming.” Hazard and I took a walk and met a few neighbor people […]
More Love to Thee (Sermon) Video
Series: Letters from Jesus (Rev. 1-3) Sermon: More Love to Thee (Rev. 2:1-7) Bethel Church-Jackson, Michigan Ken Pierpont-Lead Pastor February 23, 2020 AM
Blue Ridge Adventure
I have a “friend” kind of an internet acquaintance, who was a college professor at Indiana Wesleyan University. He name is Keith Drury. He would always go on adventures during school breaks. I love to read about them. Once he section-hiked the Appalachian Trail. Another time he floated the Colorado River. He has hiked the […]
Write
Write words on paper… Form sentences—well-crafted sentences. Cluster them into paragraphs. Gather the paragraphs into stories… or essays or speeches. Weave them together and bind them into books… …books that warm people on winter nights, …or make good company at the lake house, …or expose the plight and pain of the poor and oppressed… …books […]
I Was Wrong
Fred Craddock tells the following story about his family. “My mother took us to church and Sunday school; my father didn’t go. He complained about Sunday dinner being later when she came home. Sometimes the preacher would call, and my father would say, “I know what the church wants. Church doesn’t care about me. Church […]