(A Christmas Story for the People I love)
It was December in 1940.,  Usually we didn’t have much snow in Ohio that early but Mom and Dad said Santa Claus would be coming to the square in downtown Newark on Saturday.,  I was a little puzzled because his reindeer and sleigh, it seemed, would have to [...]

Introduction
By the time I had arrived in the world and was old enough to know them, my grandparents Pierpont were retired and lived in the lazy little village of Chatham, a few miles north of my hometown, Newark.,  Neither of them lived very far into my adulthood, so my memories of them were mostly as [...]

My mother was born Grace Geraldine Sasser on February 12, 1916 in Newark, Ohio, the youngest child of Charles and Anna Sasser. Mother lived with her family “in the south end.” If you were from Newark, as I was, everyone there was pretty much categorized by the end of town in which [...]

Over the years, we have always given our cars names. When we got out 95 LaSabre three years ago, I named it “Tubby” because it reminds me of an upside down bath tub on wheels. Of course, Jane,
as a Weight Watcher lecturer of many years has an aversion to my name, but I [...]

It was New Year’s Eve. I was eleven years old and happy to have my dad back from the Navy at the end of World War II. A tradition in our family and observed by others in our working class neighborhood was to go outside and fire our shotguns in the air at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Welcome to FOOTFALLS ON THE CROSS WALK, articles of thoughts on the cross of Christ in the everyday life of the believer.
I’m Ken Pierpont, the Baptist pastor in Jonesville, Michigan.
Today our topic is: “THE CROSS AND THE ELECTRIC CHAIR”
“Anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse” (Deuteronomy 21:23b). The enemies of Christ [...]

Welcome to Footfalls On the Cross Walk, articles of thoughts on the Cross of Christ in the everyday life of the Believer.
THE DAILY WALK WITH CHRIST’S CROSS
A few years ago, God impressed upon me the necessity of getting regular exercise. About the same time, I realized my Christian life was suffering from a dearth of [...]