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…

Away in a Manger If there is one scene that seems tell the Christmas story more than any other, it would be Mary and Joseph and their new-born son in the stable. When we think Nativity, that’s what comes to mind, and I’m sure that many of you have Nativity sets that you have taken…

It wasn’t the world’s oldest profession, but it was close! I mean you know what the world’s oldest profession is right? That’s right, farming. Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain the oldest was a farmer, thus making that the world’s oldest profession. What were you thinking? And Abel the younger brother was a shepherd…

So you probably know the story, the Angel Gabriel appears to Mary and tells her the exciting news, she’s going to be a mom, even though she is still a virgin, they work out the details but then there is the entire process of telling her parents and her fiancé, in Australia we’d say that…