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Making Fanning the Flame a Priority

On January 23, 2012 By

Since the time we followed the Lord’s leading to commit ourselves to Fanning the Flame, it has been our intent to make it a priority. Our coach, Joe Weatherly, is a pastor himself and has coached over 70 churches through this process, helping them carefully evaluate themselves, put together a plan for the future, and [...]

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Resolve for a Long Apprenticeship

On December 28, 2011 By

“It is not difficult…to get a person interested in the message of the gospel; it is terrifically difficult to sustain the interest. Millions of people in our culture make decisions for Christ, but there is a dreadful attrition rate. Many claim to have been born again, but the evidence for mature Christian discipleship is slim. [...]

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Fanning the Flame and Effective Structures

On December 1, 2011 By

This past month we have kicked off a team assembled to assess and strategize effective structures for our congregation. You might ask, what do you mean by effective structures? This strategy is meant to help us figure out the best way to push our vision down into the way we organize ourselves into ministry teams [...]

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Fanning the Flame and our Key Purpose

On November 1, 2011 By

This past month your fanning the flame team has been working on telling people about the things that we are doing. One of the things is to communicate our vision or key purpose. A “key purpose” of “vision statement” is meant to communicate how Cornerstone will seek to apply the mission of the Church Read more →

Fanning the Flame: September 2011

On September 27, 2011 By

Fanning the Flame Update: Spiritual Battle Cry

And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him… Then Sibbecai [...]

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Becoming a Praying Church

On June 28, 2011 By

One of our goals at Cornerstone is to become a praying church. In one sense we could say that we already are a praying church. Our worship services are saturated with prayer, our session and staff pray weekly over your prayer requests, a prayer chain circulates other ad hoc prayer requests among the ladies of the church, etc. But [...]

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Prayer for Today

On April 20, 2011 By

Matthew Henry, a pastor who lived 300 years ago, wrote a book on prayer called, A Method to Prayer, which has been very helpful to many pastors as they learn how to pray according to Scripture. The below prayer is a reading from this book. Please join with me in this prayer:

We must acknowledge [...]

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A Distant War No Longer

On April 1, 2011 By

Until 9/11/2001, America had no memory of fighting a war on its own soil. All the wars that we have fought in the last century (going back to the Civil War) have been fought overseas. World War I (aka, The Great War) brought America face to face with a growing threat from Germany. World War [...]

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Missionary Update from Jeff Kim in France

On February 17, 2011 By

Just got off the phone with Jeff Kim, who is a missionary from our Presbytery to Auch, France.  He’s currently working on a team to develop outreach and service opportunities as well as identify and train French church planters. He, his wife Veronique, and young son Victor have endured through the cross-cultural adjustment and are [...]

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Bible reading plan: Sin has Passions

On February 3, 2011 By

“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.”

In this great chapter on our union with Christ, sin is personified. It is personified as a master (all who sin make themselves it’s slave), and here having passions. When I am tempted it sure seems to be my passions [...]

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