Bittersweet Farm

Bittersweet Farm

Read Aloud Stories

Giving: A Rare and Wonderful Gift

Filed Under: Christmas Stories, Pondering His Creation, Read Aloud Stories

There is such joy in giving. I had just a taste of it when I was young.

When I was about fourteen years old I made fifteen dollars a week delivering the Dayton Journal Herald Monday through Saturday morning. In my neighborhood was a small store with bikes and toys and hardware called Western Auto. I was browsing in the store one day about a month before Christmas and my eyes fell on something I had always wanted myself when I was younger. It was an electric football game. This was long before realistic and reliable computer games were introduced. But the television commercials made those electric football sets look irresistible. They had little plastic men on tiny plastic feet the moved when the board vibrated.
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SNOWY DAY

Filed Under: Christmas Stories, Read Aloud Stories

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I worked security last night. I could tell on the monitors it was snowing through the night. When I finished my shift I went to sleep for a few hours. When I woke Lois was excited because the snow was falling. She announced that it was the perfect day to get our tree. I agreed.

LOIS’ PHOTOS: To see some of her photos of the day you can visit her site. This picture was taken on the little tree farm we have patronized for the last three Christmases. After we got our tree we drove to Frankenmuth. Now we have our new tree tucked in the corner of our cozy living room.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

On John Piper

Filed Under: Circuit-Riding, Current Thoughts, Read Aloud Stories

I am convinced that John Piper is a gift to the church for our day. Often when I observe the apostasy and coldness of the church, the compromise and worldliness… my heart aches, but when I read men like John Piper and see that there are many who long for their faithful treatment of the Word, my heart is alive with hope again. Thank God for Piper. I say read him and read those he reads and let God do a deeper work in your soul. Someday I will meet him and I will thank him for the blessing he has been to me.

Ken’s Stories

Filed Under: Circuit-Riding, Current Thoughts, Read Aloud Stories, Village Parson, Virtues and Values

Ken Pierpont is a small-town pastor at heart, who loves people. He loves his wife, he loves his children, he loves God and he loves life. This love spills over into each of his stories. Everywhere he looks he sees extraordinary truths about God demonstrated in ordinary people and common places. He is the father of eight children and he has been a rural and small-town pastor for nearly twenty-five years starting the summer after his junior year in high school when he was only seventeen years old.
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A Mongrel at a Dog Show

Filed Under: Faith and Family, Read Aloud Stories

The guys were going to Grand Rapids to a book store that smells of coffee. Then they were going to spend some time looking at guitars. I had other things to do but I really didn’t like the idea of the guys being gone all day without me. And I especially didn’t like the idea of missing out on a lazy Saturday browsing the bookstore that smells of fresh-brewed coffee. I invited myself to go along. They are always eager to have me along because I am good company, and I’m witty… and I always treat for lunch.
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