Peter just shook his head.  All they wanted was money.  Couldn’t they see the bigger picture?  That there was more at stake than just money.  They had just arrived back in town and before they could even get settled the church was there with its hand out.  Well, it wasn’t actually the church, but close…

So here we are. Week two of Money Month! In case you weren’t here last week or if you are new to Cornerstone, I made a decision a number of years ago that instead of responding to various financial crisis in the church by preaching on them that I would take one month each year…

Through the 58 years of my life I’ve had the opportunity to live in 4 different countries and have visited 5 African Countries, 7 European Countries, and another 15 countries scattered throughout the Caribbean, Central America and South America.   And the one thing that have in common of course is money.   Now, their money might…

Since it was first Introduced in Dr. Seuss’ 1954 Horton Hears a Who, Whoville has been a staple in popular culture.  In 1957 Seuss reintroduced Whoville in his book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the location and residents have been popularized in different media through the years.  There has been a TV special of…

Over the past few weeks we’ve talked about Whoville in relation to Dr. Suess' classic Horton Hears a Who, but the reality is, that when most people hear the term “Whoville” that isn’t the book they think of.  Instead, they think of Little Cindy Lou Who and her family from Seuss’ 1957 Classic how the…

He had lived through the war and the war had shaped who he was.  It had also shaped how he saw others.  In particular, it shaped his view of the Japanese.  Between Pearl Harbour and the war that followed he had very little time or use for those who called Japan their home. But in…

Back in November the worship team introduced the song “Who You Say I Am”, maybe you remember.  And as the team was singing, I had an epiphany.   An epiphany is defined as: a moment of sudden revelation or insight. And maybe epiphany is a little strong but considering that many Christians celebrate today as “Epiphany”,…

Well, here we are about 2000 years down the road from that first church.  I’m sure if Peter and John had of ever discussed the future of the Christian church that they could not have envisioned what it would be like 2000 years later. I mean 2000 years!  The Jewish religion wasn’t even 2000 years…

Here we are it’s Christmas Eve, which brings us to the end of our A Christmas Carol Series at Cornerstone.  Through the past four weeks we’ve been using Dickens’ most famous story as a frame work for the Christmas story.  If you aren’t familiar with A Christmas Carol, it is divided up into five chapters…

It was December 19th, 1843 and the Christmas Novella that Dickens had been working on for six weeks was finally released, to immediate success. By Christmas Eve all 6000 copies of A Christmas Carol had been sold out.    And they weren’t cheap, the little book sold for five shillings which we are told is the…