So we are picking up our story where we left off last Mother’s Day.  You remember where we left off last Mother’s Day don’t you? For the few of you who don’t recall last year’s message.  It began with a drought in the country of Israel, God’s prophet Elijah was instructed to go to a…

For Christians around the world the celebration of Communion is something we have in common.  Oh we might call it by different names, and we might fight over how often we should observe communion, what actually happens to the elements when we receive them, and even over what we use for elements but there is…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

What a day!  Normally when we think of the Sunday before Easter we focus on what is traditionally referred to as the “Triumphant Entry”.  You remember the story, Jesus comes riding into Jerusalem on a young donkey and the crowds come out to greet him, yelling praises and waving Palm Branches which is where the…

The crowd surged toward the road, pushing and shoving to get a better look at the man called Jesus.  The city was Jericho and it was wall to wall people, each one of them eager to get a look at the young carpenter from Nazareth that everyone was talking about.   It was his first time…

Here we are in Week seven of our old school Sunday School series and during that time we have see Jesus lost in the temple, baptized in a river, heal a paralyzed man and a blind man and mediate a sibling rivalry.  And that’s what happened when Sunday School was being taught, each week a…