When our daughter,  Deborah,  was preparing to depart for Odessa in Ukraine in 2008 she had to sign a form stating how she wished to have her remains disposed of if anything happened to her while she was overseas.  Pretty heavy stuff for a twenty-one year old.  But practical.  But what do you do with…

Matthew 27:46 At about three o’clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” How many times have we asked ourselves the same question that Jesus asked as he hung dying on the cross?  “God, why have you abandoned your son? …

Just as the Serpent was lifted up The first time he had met Jesus it was in the dark, and there was just him and the master.  We see him at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry and then we hear him speak in defence of Jesus halfway through the story and then we don’t see…

Electricity filled the air as the people of Jerusalem pushed against one another to see the man that everyone was talking about.  Some said he was a god and others said he was a demon.  Some claimed he performed miracles while others proclaimed him a fraud a charlatan or worse.  For better or for worse…

Well here we are, for some of you it is your favorite month of the year at Cornerstone, for others, not so much.  If you are new to Cornerstone or a guest today a little background, each year at Cornerstone during the month of April Denn preaches on Money.  Well to be exact I preach…

Has everyone heard about the movie coming out next week called Noah?  That was the trailer for it.  Now understand that Noah, the Movie is not the same as Noah the Bible story.  And they’ve tried to tweak it to make it work, as a biblical epic, but it just doesn’t. They’ve tried focus groups…

He was a hero.  And not just in the Bible but also on the big screen.  But that wasn’t the way his life began.  He was born as the son of slaves, his immediate future looked bleak and short.  Nobody would have assumed that his name would ever be known outside of his immediate family…

It’s one of those phrases that you hear every once in a while but I’m not always sure that those using it are aware of the context.   It often involves someone who is in a tough spot and they will say “I felt like Daniel in the lions den.”  But it is just something they…

They had always wondered what it would like to stare into the face of imminent death.  Well actually they had never wondered what it would be like to stare into the face of imminent death, but here they were anyway. Three young men who were only doing what they thought was right and now they…

And so it ends where  it began.  It seems fitting that the Jesus initiated Peter’s call on a beach, confirmed his call on a beach and now is finalizing his call on the beach.  And not just any beach, the same beach. But before we start today’s message, a story. It was the year after…