Citizens of Heaven and a Worthy Savior Nick Esch, 5/3/2020 Cornerstone Baptist Church Introduction If I said, a good American is ___________… what would you say? How would you fill in the blank? Perhaps you would say a good American is honest and hardworking… Or maybe you’d say a good American is a good citizen […]

Philippians 1:18–26 (ESV) 18b Yes, and I will rejoice, 19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, 20 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as […]

Good Will And Love For Christ Nick Esch, 4/19/2020 Cornerstone Baptist Church Introduction What does it mean to be good? Now, I don’t mean that in the sense of what it means to be inherently good as God is. As the saying goes, God is good all the time and all the time God is […]

Suffering, God’s Good Sovereignty, and the Glory of Christ Nick Esch, 4/5/2020 Cornerstone Baptist Church Introduction John Bunyan was an English Puritan who lived from 1628-1688. He devoted his life to the glory of Christ and the advancement of the gospel of Christ. In fact, he spent 12 years of his life in prison for preaching […]

Philippians 1:7–11 In the beginning of verse 7 Paul says, “It is right for me to feel this way about you all…” The feelings that he is referring to are those that he just laid out in verses 3-6. There he said that he’s thankful for the Philippian church and filled with joy because of […]

Philippians 1:1–6 Our passage begins by telling us Paul and Timothy are the authors of this letter, though it seems that Paul is the main author. And in verse 1 they identify themselves as, “servants of Christ Jesus.” And for us, as we see that we might not think much about it… But, given that […]

Romans 1:16–17 (ESV) [16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. [17] For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live […]

Isaiah 6:8–13 (ESV) [8] And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” [9] And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ [10] […]

The Holy God Who Saves Sinners Nick Esch, 3/1/2020 Cornerstone Baptist Church Introduction In his book, The Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer said, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” And that quote concerns me when I think about another quote. […]

Isaiah 5 (ESV)   [1] Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. [2] He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine […]