Cornerstone Conversations

Our pastors recently sat down to talk about the most enjoyable and the most difficult parts of the Christmas season. However you are feeling about Christmas this year, there are ways it can point you to the blessednes of belonging to your God through Christ. We hope you enjoy this fun and thought-provoking podcast. Merry Christmas!

Approaching the celebration of Thanksgiving in 2024, Pastors Rob and Jeff shared an encouraging conversation about the appropriate place of gratitude in our lives, why it can be difficult to be grateful sometimes, and how God graciously brings us to deeper gratitude through the Good News of the Gospel.

We recently received the results of the 2024 general election and learned that Donald Trump will once again be President of the United States. With words of truth, compassion, gratitude, and caution our pastors talk through the implications of this election for Christians living in America today. 

In this Cornerstong Conversation, our pastors continue discussing the amazingly unique nature of Jesus' royalty as displayed in the Gospel of John. While we are all like psuedo sovereigns, constantly plagued by our desire to control our lives and the people and things in them, Jesus gives it all up and lays it all down for the glory of His father and the good of His people. While we are constantly fighting for our little kingdoms, fighting in our relationships, fighting in our stewardships, and even fighting in our politics, Jesus is dying for His kingdom, dying for us on the cross to welcome us into His family of humility, love, and service. He invites us to denounce our own false sense of royalty and to find freedom and peace by putting our full trust in Him. If you sense your need to be dethroned and to find hope in enthroning Him, check out today's podcast. 

The evangelical world has been hit yet again with a bombshell annoucement of a prominent pastor who has disqualified himself from ministry due to personal moral failure. The news has sent shockwaves of sorrow, outrage, and confusion throughout the church. How do we make sense of spiritual leaders falling into sin? How does the Bible account for such things? What help and what hope does it have to offer us? Our pastors sit down to address these questions and others on this week's Cornerstone Conversation. 

In this episode of Cornerstone Conversations, we are talking about “Glorifying God.” This is a commonly discussed biblical topic. Followers of Jesus often think about and talk about their desire to glorify God. In last Sunday’s sermon Pastor Rob talked about it quite a bit as it came up several times in our study of John 17. We will discuss this statement which was made in last week’s sermon: “We don’t make God more glorious; He is glorious.” God is glorious; His glory is most clearly seen through Christ and the Gospel; We glorify God in our lives as we know Him and show Him.

There is arguably no more formative relationship in a person's life than with their father. For better or worse, our sense of security, provision, and protection often comes from this relationship. In the Bible, God is frequently referred to as our "Heavenly Father," and unlike His earthly counterparts, He is perfect in every way, in His love, discipline, and provisions. He is also always available and always faithful. And He invites us to come to Him often and honestly. He delights in our dependence upon Him. Today's podcast explores this heavenly father to earthly child relationship.

More than anything else, we need rescue from ourselves, from our fallen thinking, and from our opposition to God. And, God, in His amazing love and mercy, pulls out all the stops to save us, even using the sufferings of this life to open our eyes to our desperate need for Him.

We are just a few months from the 2024 General Election and many of us are feeling anxious. It is a time of uncertainty, a time of divisiveness, and even a time of hostility. The polarization of the political right and the political left is at a fever pitch. On today's podacst, our pastors talk about navigating through a troubling election cycle with the anchoring hope of the Gospel. 

There has been a lot of chatter among Christians online lately about whether mental illness is an actual form of suffering or whether it is sin. In today's podcast, Pastors Jeff and Rob talk about the importance of having a balanced perspective on the topic and how the Gospel gives hope for all sin and suffering, including that which is associated with mental illness.