David Milgaard Clayton Johnson Paul MorinMaria Shepherd Robert Baltovich Steven Truscott Perhaps some of those names sounded familiar to you. They are all Canadians who served prison time for crimes they were eventually exonerated for. Steven Truscott was 14 years old in 1959 when he was sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of…

The Innocence Project was formed in the United States in 1992 in order to bring justice to those who had been wrongfully convicted.  Since then, they are now represented by 70 independent chapters in 50 states and 12 countries. Their goal is to provide investigative support, legal representation, and assistance to individuals with claims of…

In 1992, attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, founded an organization called the Innocence Project, which has been at the forefront of criminal justice reform, using DNA and other scientific advancements to prove wrongful conviction. The mission of the Innocence project is defined this way: The Innocence Project works to free the innocent, prevent wrongful…

You can almost smell the anticipation in the air. Next week, whatever the sermon is about, it won’t be about money. This is week four of our series, A Heart for God’s House, and we’ve looked at A heart for God’s Mission, A Heart for God’s People and A Heart for God’s House, and this…

A Heart for His Building He walked across the dusty, stony ground, kicked a rock and bent and drew in the dirt. He looked around at the desolate land scape and down at the city below and wondered if his dream would ever be a reality. Would it really happen, someday would the people of…

A heart for God’s Mission If you have attended Cornerstone long enough you have probably heard our mission statement or maybe you have read it on our website. Late in the last century, when Angela and I were dreaming about what this church would look like, we were told that an important part of that…

Their parents must have taught them right, at least partly right. A while back, a lady in Saint Paul Minnesota had a package she had been waiting for, stolen off her porch.  That seems to be more common these days, which is unfortunate.  The strange thing about the story is the thief left a thank…

Pillar of Fire It was 1987, I was pastoring in Truro, and co-chairing a young adult’s event just outside of Washington, DC. I had been in DC for the weekend, looking at hotels and meeting space, and I was making my way back to Allentown, Pennsylvania, with my co-chair, Dwight Addington. Dwight pastored Bethany Wesleyan…

The smell of charcoal enveloped him as he stepped closer to the fire. And in a rush, it all came back. He was no longer standing on a beach, instead he was sitting around a charcoal fire outside the home of the Caiaphas, the high priest. And it was there that he did the unthinkable:…

He was a little confused. There were some people who loved him and others who hated him. He thought he was doing a good thing, a necessary thing, even a God thing, but obviously, there were those who disagreed. Nehemiah was one of the Jews living in exile and was in the service of the…