Evangelism.  It is not just a good idea; it is a matter of survival.  Without evangelism, there would be no Christianity, because without evangelism there would be no Christians. If we read the various accounts of Jesus’ last words to the apostles, we discover that he left no doubt at all that Christianity was something…

Two men, the number is both important and irrelevant.  It is important because there had to be two, one would not have been enough.  It’s irrelevant because those two men represent every human being who has ever lived.  Two men, the number is both important and irrelevant. The story is a familiar one to those…

What are you afraid of? What sends shivers down your spine or keeps you up at night? Marie Curie wrote, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Perhaps if she had of feared radiation a little…

I don’t know if there is a worse taunt when you are a kid than being called a scaredy cat.  Having my friends think I was afraid to do something was a major embarrassment for me as a child and probably got me into more trouble and has caused me to shed more blood than…

With one word everything changes, I love you. . . but, I would. . . but, You’re healthy. . . but. It’s only a small word, it only has three letters however that one word is the hinge that swings a statement in another direction. For example,  Jeffrey Fry wrote “Integrity is not everything, but…

It started as a day marked with mourning, but today it is a day of celebration. It started as a day when the forces of Evil celebrated victory, but today it is a seen as the day when goodness and grace triumphed. It started as a day when people paused to remember what man did…

It was supposed to be a day marked with celebration, but it was a day defined by tragedy. It was supposed to be a day friends gathered together, but it was a day that friends scattered. It was supposed to be a day when people paused to remember what God had done for man, but…

Where is he? Where? Where is he? How many times had she asked that question over the past four days? Her only brother had come down with some mysterious virus and nobody could do anything for him. Well nobody except for their friend Jesus. How many times had he reached out his hand and the…

It’s a small word, only 3 letters, however when I looked up its definition in Collins English Dictionary, I found not one, but eight different ways the word could be used. It can be a conjunction, a preposition, an adverb, a pronoun and a noun. The word of course is “But” and if you have…

This is week four of our Foreign Exchange series. If you haven’t been with us during March or if you are new to Cornerstone, I will bring you up to speed. I decided that instead of preaching about money when we were behind or there was a financial crunch or crisis in the church, which…