How many guys had GI Joes when you were kids?  They weren’t dolls they were action figures.  Ken was a doll, and GI Joe was cooler and had cooler stuff.  I was an army brat so the only GI Joe I had was the army one, but a friend of mine had all four, and…

Dress for Success Can you remember a book that you read the year you turned 16?  Did you read any books the year you turned 16?  As most of you know, I am a reader.  My parents read to me as a child, then I graduated into comic books, anything from Casper the Friendly Ghost…

It seems that we are constantly being barraged with images of battles being fought around the world.  There hardly seems to be an evening that goes by without the news telling us of an armed conflict that is being fought over real estate, religion or resources.  And we hear about it so much that we…

Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem, a journey that he knew would end with him being crucified, and yet many of those following him thought he was on his way to establish his Kingdom in the capital city. Sometimes I wonder if Jesus ever wanted to say:  “What we’ve got here is a failure…

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. …