Introduction Last week my sermon was primarily dealing with those of you who are more introspective, and tend to always question yourselves. And we all fall into that category from time to time. Even if we don’t have a sensitive conscience we all fall into fear and doubt at different times in our lives. Well…
Genesis 17:7-14 (ESV) 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the…
Introduction For a few years now I’ve had Hebrews 10:23 stuck in my brain. In every up and down of life, in every joy and every hardship, this one verse keeps coming to mind. We read it earlier. It says, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised…
Romans 9:6-13 (ESV) 6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of…
Introduction In his book, Idols for Destruction, historian Herbert Schlossberg writes, “The Bible can be interpreted [indeed, all of history can be interpreted] as a string of God’s triumphs disguised as disasters… The Kingdom of God advances from triumph to triumph, with all of them disguised as disasters.” Case and point—the cross of Christ. That…
ROMANS 8:28 (ESV)And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
This is the fourth lesson of a series seeking to explain the basics of who we are as a church, what we believe, how we worship, and what it means to belong to Cornerstone Reformed Church. We are a Reformed church within the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), and in this series we will…
This is the fourth lesson of a series seeking to explain the basics of who we are as a church, what we believe, how we worship, and what it means to belong to Cornerstone Reformed Church. We are a Reformed church within the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), and in this series we will…
This is the fourth lesson of a series seeking to explain the basics of who we are as a church, what we believe, how we worship, and what it means to belong to Cornerstone Reformed Church. We are a Reformed church within the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), and in this series we will…
1 Corinthians 2:14-16 (ESV) 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood…