Cornerstone Church Sermons

I suppose someone, somewhere does, but I’ve never really considered feet all that beautiful as far as body parts go. My own are high-arched, gnarly appendages, constantly bearing my weight and often tired and sore. So when I read Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news...”, I struggled with the feet metaphor. That is, until I realized that the focus of the verse is not the feet, but the good news that makes the feet so beautiful. That good news is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Where would we be if Jesus did not come to this world, live life perfectly, and die on that terrible cross, to rise again three days later? I know where we would be...in bondage to sin, deserving of the wrath of God with a truly terrible eternity ahead of us. How thankful I am that my mother shared the good news with me. I now have the privilege of sharing that same message with others. This series aims to explain the good news so we can proclaim it. Yet not only proclaim it, but live it and experience its powerfully transforming results! I hope you join us as we look at Beautiful Feet that bring the good news of Jesus Christ.

Resurrection Sunday Service

I suppose someone, somewhere does, but I’ve never really considered feet all that beautiful as far as body parts go. My own are high-arched, gnarly appendages, constantly bearing my weight and often tired and sore. So when I read Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news...”, I struggled with the feet metaphor. That is, until I realized that the focus of the verse is not the feet, but the good news that makes the feet so beautiful. That good news is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Where would we be if Jesus did not come to this world, live life perfectly, and die on that terrible cross, to rise again three days later? I know where we would be...in bondage to sin, deserving of the wrath of God with a truly terrible eternity ahead of us. How thankful I am that my mother shared the good news with me. I now have the privilege of sharing that same message with others. This series aims to explain the good news so we can proclaim it. Yet not only proclaim it, but live it and experience its powerfully transforming results! I hope you join us as we look at Beautiful Feet that bring the good news of Jesus Christ.

I suppose someone, somewhere does, but I’ve never really considered feet all that beautiful as far as body parts go. My own are high-arched, gnarly appendages, constantly bearing my weight and often tired and sore. So when I read Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news...”, I struggled with the feet metaphor. That is, until I realized that the focus of the verse is not the feet, but the good news that makes the feet so beautiful. That good news is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Where would we be if Jesus did not come to this world, live life perfectly, and die on that terrible cross, to rise again three days later? I know where we would be...in bondage to sin, deserving of the wrath of God with a truly terrible eternity ahead of us. How thankful I am that my mother shared the good news with me. I now have the privilege of sharing that same message with others. This series aims to explain the good news so we can proclaim it. Yet not only proclaim it, but live it and experience its powerfully transforming results! I hope you join us as we look at Beautiful Feet that bring the good news of Jesus Christ.

I suppose someone, somewhere does, but I’ve never really considered feet all that beautiful as far as body parts go. My own are high-arched, gnarly appendages, constantly bearing my weight and often tired and sore. So when I read Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news...”, I struggled with the feet metaphor. That is, until I realized that the focus of the verse is not the feet, but the good news that makes the feet so beautiful. That good news is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Where would we be if Jesus did not come to this world, live life perfectly, and die on that terrible cross, to rise again three days later? I know where we would be...in bondage to sin, deserving of the wrath of God with a truly terrible eternity ahead of us. How thankful I am that my mother shared the good news with me. I now have the privilege of sharing that same message with others. This series aims to explain the good news so we can proclaim it. Yet not only proclaim it, but live it and experience its powerfully transforming results! I hope you join us as we look at Beautiful Feet that bring the good news of Jesus Christ.

I suppose someone, somewhere does, but I’ve never really considered feet all that beautiful as far as body parts go. My own are high-arched, gnarly appendages, constantly bearing my weight and often tired and sore. So when I read Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news...”, I struggled with the feet metaphor. That is, until I realized that the focus of the verse is not the feet, but the good news that makes the feet so beautiful. That good news is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Where would we be if Jesus did not come to this world, live life perfectly, and die on that terrible cross, to rise again three days later? I know where we would be...in bondage to sin, deserving of the wrath of God with a truly terrible eternity ahead of us. How thankful I am that my mother shared the good news with me. I now have the privilege of sharing that same message with others. This series aims to explain the good news so we can proclaim it. Yet not only proclaim it, but live it and experience its powerfully transforming results! I hope you join us as we look at Beautiful Feet that bring the good news of Jesus Christ.

God’s glory, in part, rests on how well we love each other, how together we are. So too does the power of our witness. Isn’t this what Jesus meant when He prayed with His disciples (and us!) just hours before He was crucified: “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” John 17:20-23. ‘Together’ is something the church has to intentionally strive for in the grace the Lord provides us. It does not come naturally, and the moment we lose sight of that, the beginnings of division will slowly come in. We invite you on the journey with us, as we learn how the early church lived ‘together’ in a fractured, divided world, for the glory of God!

God’s glory, in part, rests on how well we love each other, how together we are. So too does the power of our witness. Isn’t this what Jesus meant when He prayed with His disciples (and us!) just hours before He was crucified: “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” John 17:20-23. ‘Together’ is something the church has to intentionally strive for in the grace the Lord provides us. It does not come naturally, and the moment we lose sight of that, the beginnings of division will slowly come in. We invite you on the journey with us, as we learn how the early church lived ‘together’ in a fractured, divided world, for the glory of God!

God’s glory, in part, rests on how well we love each other, how together we are. So too does the power of our witness. Isn’t this what Jesus meant when He prayed with His disciples (and us!) just hours before He was crucified: “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” John 17:20-23. ‘Together’ is something the church has to intentionally strive for in the grace the Lord provides us. It does not come naturally, and the moment we lose sight of that, the beginnings of division will slowly come in. We invite you on the journey with us, as we learn how the early church lived ‘together’ in a fractured, divided world, for the glory of God!

God’s glory, in part, rests on how well we love each other, how together we are. So too does the power of our witness. Isn’t this what Jesus meant when He prayed with His disciples (and us!) just hours before He was crucified: “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” John 17:20-23. ‘Together’ is something the church has to intentionally strive for in the grace the Lord provides us. It does not come naturally, and the moment we lose sight of that, the beginnings of division will slowly come in. We invite you on the journey with us, as we learn how the early church lived ‘together’ in a fractured, divided world, for the glory of God!