Higher Ground Ministries · Bro. John Kennon

Books & songs for the climb

“When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”PSALM 61:2 · KJV

A word before you begin

Thirty years in the making

What you’ll find here is more than thirty years of writing and composing, gathered in one place for the first time. These songs, sermons, studies, and books were written through every season of life and ministry, on the mountaintops and in the valleys. Much of it was never meant for anyone but God and me.

I share it now with one prayer: that something here meets you right where you are, and points you to the Rock that is higher than I.

This work is dedicated first to the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave every song and every word worth keeping. And to my family, who lived these pages with me.

Bro. John Kennon

The album

We Will Overcome

We Will Overcome is a gospel album with a Southern road under it: songs of victory through the blood of the Lamb, written for anyone fighting their way from trouble to testimony.

Hear the album

    Books

    Written from the valley floor

    Books, devotionals, and teaching studies: Scripture opened plainly, testimony told honestly, and the apostolic faith of the Book of Acts lived out in everyday life.

    All books
    Title slide: What Must I Do to Be Saved? A companion study to What Happened After the Cross?

    Bible study · A companion to What Happened After the Cross?

    What Must I Do to Be Saved?

    A doctrinal overview from the Book of Acts. This lesson starts with the human condition and the gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, then walks through grace and faith, repentance, baptism in the name of Jesus, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, the plan Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost.

    Open it on your own, or teach it to a small group or new believer. It is also available in Spanish.

    • Slide: goal of the lesson
    • Slide: the solution, the gospel
    • Slide: baptism
    • Slide: salvation past, present, future
    Bro. John Kennon

    About

    Minister. Musician. Writer.

    Bro. John Kennon is a local minister who has spent more than thirty years writing the way he preaches: straight from Scripture, honest about the hard places, and certain that God rebuilds what life tears down.

    At home, he is blessed with a beautiful wife, four lovely daughters, three sons, two amazing sons-in-law, two amazing daughters-in-law, and a five-year-old grandson.

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