This weekend will be mostly Bible teaching on Four Ways to Build Better Relationships. Love (2 Cor. 12:15 NKJV) Honor (1 Peter 2:17) Humility (Proverbs 28:13) Mercy (Matthew 18:21-22; Eph. 4:30-32) What we do when we gather in the barn will be part Bible teaching, part practical seminar-like instruction, part story-telling, and personal testimony. I’ve […]
The Pierpont Sisters 2008 and Today
Our daughters Holly, Heidi, Hannah, and Hope travelled into the mountains of eastern Kentucky in June of 2008 to sing and testify. It was their only tour. Deep in the mountains and a few weeks into their tour they happened on a mountain TV station where they recorded this song. Each of the girls would […]
42 Years Ago Today…
At 13 years old Lois walked down the aisle of the Southside Baptist Tabernacle in the West Willow subdivision in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and became a follower of Jesus. 42 years ago today on a grey autumn day she walked down the same aisle and vowed to spend the rest of her life as my wife. […]
Between Labor Day and Memorial Day
When I was a younger man I used to notice that the time between Memorial Day and Labor Day was short and swift-passing. I even wrote a book about it (Sunset on Summer)… This week I have been speaking to a sweet group of families all gathered at a beautiful, well-run camp in Wisconsin (Camp […]
Beginning-Hope and Tim
At 8:12 this evening, the way I reckon it, the sun will set on summer. In a beautiful twist of irony, three minutes later a plane from Florida will land in Detroit and two young people will begin their first autumn as a married couple. I will be there to take them to their new […]