Getting what we don’t deserve

It really seemed as if he had gotten away with it.  For almost forty years Clarence Moore had lived as a free man after escaping from a North Carolina prison where he was serving an eleven year sentence for larceny. But last week the sixty-six year old fugitive voluntarily turned himself in.  It seems that…

The Generosity Principle

This is our last week of money month and for the past four weeks we have been parked in the generosity spot.  Each year we take the month of April to explore the theology of money, giving and generosity.  Not only within the church but in our lives in general.  This idea is that if…

A Sense of Entitlement?

Sometimes we hear folks describe the youth of today as having a “sense of entitlement”, but that really isn’t anything new.  I’m sure Adam and Eve had that discussion about their children and Socrates must have had that in mind over two thousand years ago when he wrote “Children are now tyrants, not the servants…

The Generosity of the Book

This is week two or three of Money Month at Cornerstone, depending on how you count.  Two weeks ago we at least gave a nod to the fact that this is the month that we deal with Money at Cornerstone when I preached on A Generous Easter, and then last week was our 20th Anniversary…

Cruise of a Lifetime

I don’t know if the plan had been for it to be a three hour cruise but it turned into a 66 day nightmare. Louis Jordan had set sail for a few days of fishing but what was supposed to be a routine trip on his 35 foot sailboat named “Angel” turned into anything but. …

The Birth of a Generous Church

I’ve always been intrigued with the Corinthian Church.  A church with problems, you don’t have to read very far through the letters addressed to the church to discover that they struggled with “issues”.  Theological issues, moral issues, behavioural issues.  But in my experience that is the reality of the church.  I mean as long as…

Happy Birthday

That year gas sold for 54.3 cents a litre, the five year mortgage rate was 10.6 % and the Canadian dollar was worth about 72 cents American.   Some might remember that was the year that the Maple Leaf Gardens were sold, the Paul Bernado trial began, Quebec narrowly decided to remain a part of Canada,…

A Generous Easter

We sometimes refer to the gift of Easter, and when some folks think of Easter gifts they think of new clothes and chocolate.  And while those might be Easter gifts they aren’t the gifts we are talking about today.  And this message really started on Friday because there couldn’t be a Sunday without a Friday. …

The Cost of Good Friday

Sometimes we hear people refer to the gift of Easter, and on Sunday we are going to reflect on the generosity that made Easter a reality for us, and for the gifts that are extended to us because of the resurrection.  But that is Sunday and this is Friday.  You see there couldn’t be a…

Happy Almost Birthday

Next week we will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of our first public service.  But our first “non” public service was held 20 years ago this week.  In order to be somewhat sure that everything would work on our grand opening, we had a “trial” service on April 2, 1995.  And so Stan Wickwire and…