Comments for Cornerstone http://cornerstonekaty.org Cornerstone Evangelical Presbyterian Church Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Share your story by Linda Cover http://cornerstonekaty.org/2011/12/share-your-story/#comment-378 Linda Cover Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:13:47 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3452#comment-378 It was such an encouragement to me to hear Dick Hedin's children, at his funeral, speak about how Cornerstone had been "a family" for Dick. One of our our goals, when the church moved to Katy twenty years ago, was to "be family" for people in the community who needed that support - to provide (along with good, sound, Christian teaching and preaching) encouragement, love, and practical help that many who were uprooted from their natural families were missing. God has certainly honored that desire, and he has glorified himself in the love that is shown among our members. It was such an encouragement to me to hear Dick Hedin’s children, at his funeral, speak about how Cornerstone had been “a family” for Dick. One of our our goals, when the church moved to Katy twenty years ago, was to “be family” for people in the community who needed that support – to provide (along with good, sound, Christian teaching and preaching) encouragement, love, and practical help that many who were uprooted from their natural families were missing. God has certainly honored that desire, and he has glorified himself in the love that is shown among our members.

]]> Comment on Share your story by Amy Horn http://cornerstonekaty.org/2011/12/share-your-story/#comment-377 Amy Horn Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:23:09 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3452#comment-377 I know God is at work when I see my family find the good things in what seem to be major disappointments. I know he is changing our hearts and renewing us when I see them thank God and remember that all of these things may just some how be a blessing to us and they watch for it. That is God's mighty hand! I know God is at work when I see my family find the good things in what seem to be major disappointments. I know he is changing our hearts and renewing us when I see them thank God and remember that all of these things may just some how be a blessing to us and they watch for it. That is God’s mighty hand!

]]> Comment on Making Fanning the Flame a Priority by Carter http://cornerstonekaty.org/2012/01/making-fanning-the-flame-a-priority/#comment-375 Carter Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:13:38 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3569#comment-375 FTF team members are: Pastor Carter Sanger, Pastor Nathan Carico, Jonathan Tucker, Kent Saugier, Gene Cover, Kathy Jorgensen, Lynn Weatherly, Becky Yuvancic, Johnny Tassin, Don Russell, Janette Cogliandro, Trey Harper, Justin O'Shay FTF team members are: Pastor Carter Sanger, Pastor Nathan Carico, Jonathan Tucker, Kent Saugier, Gene Cover, Kathy Jorgensen, Lynn Weatherly, Becky Yuvancic, Johnny Tassin, Don Russell, Janette Cogliandro, Trey Harper, Justin O’Shay

]]> Comment on Making Fanning the Flame a Priority by Pat White http://cornerstonekaty.org/2012/01/making-fanning-the-flame-a-priority/#comment-374 Pat White Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:48:17 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3569#comment-374 Sorry I have missed Sundays recently. I was out of town one of those times, but the rest of the time, honestly, I didn't want to go to church. Not because of you or the church, but because of me. God is reallly pushing me into some personal introspection, and I have found a lot putrid things there. I do pray for you and Nathan and the church. I pray for FTF, knowing that all good God-glorifying things are attacked by Satan. However, I know God has a purpose for our church, and participation in FTF is part of it. When people ask me what psychiatric counselling is like, I say it is like having your skin pulled off layer by layer without any pain killer. Like an onion I had to have all the veneer and outer layers scraped away to get to the center where I had managed to squelch so much. (I am still having to do that.) I guess I want you and the FTF team to know that whenever anything is seriously investigated/analysed/explored with the intent to change and "get better," it really, really hurts. And in fact, if it didn't, I would question the depth and honestly of the search/counselling. So, I want to encourage you and every person on the FTF team. Hurting or being hurt is part of the process. Honestly sometimes causes pain, but if dealt with openly and properly, there will be healing and improvement. Sometimes we try to put a bandage on something, which disguises the hurt, but it can get infected and putrify (like I am now finding in my heart/life). I don't want to go where I know God is pushing me. I don't want to hurt and accept responsibility for this place I am in or for contributing so much to being here, but I want to change and I have to choose. And I am afraid, too. No one likes to be examined and picked apart to find the things that need to be "fixed" or looked at properly. God is working and He is using YOU, Carter, is a powerful to touch the lives of many. You have become a wonderful preacher. God gave us you, "for such a time as thins." But that doesn't mean it will be easy. But it will be right(eous). Actually, I just wanted ask who is on the FTF team and suggest that information be written on the bottom of the bulletin. It is hard to talk to FTF team members if you don't know who they are. If you have done this alredy and I haven't been there to read it, I'm sorry. Blessings abound! Pat White Sorry I have missed Sundays recently. I was out of town one of those times, but the rest of the time, honestly, I didn’t want to go to church. Not because of you or the church, but because of me. God is reallly pushing me into some personal introspection, and I have found a lot putrid things there.

I do pray for you and Nathan and the church. I pray for FTF, knowing that all good God-glorifying things are attacked by Satan. However, I know God has a purpose for our church, and participation in FTF is part of it.
When people ask me what psychiatric counselling is like, I say it is like having your skin pulled off layer by layer without any pain killer. Like an onion I had to have all the veneer and outer layers scraped away to get to the center where I had managed to squelch so much. (I am still having to do that.)
I guess I want you and the FTF team to know that whenever anything is seriously investigated/analysed/explored with the intent to change and “get better,” it really, really hurts. And in fact, if it didn’t, I would question the depth and honestly of the search/counselling.
So, I want to encourage you and every person on the FTF team. Hurting or being hurt is part of the process. Honestly sometimes causes pain, but if dealt with openly and properly, there will be healing and improvement.

Sometimes we try to put a bandage on something, which disguises the hurt, but it can get infected and putrify (like I am now finding in my heart/life). I don’t want to go where I know God is pushing me. I don’t want to hurt and accept responsibility for this place I am in or for contributing so much to being here, but I want to change and I have to choose. And I am afraid, too. No one likes to be examined and picked apart to find the things that need to be “fixed” or looked at properly.

God is working and He is using YOU, Carter, is a powerful to touch the lives of many. You have become a wonderful preacher. God gave us you, “for such a time as thins.” But that doesn’t mean it will be easy. But it will be right(eous).

Actually, I just wanted ask who is on the FTF team and suggest that information be written on the bottom of the bulletin. It is hard to talk to FTF team members if you don’t know who they are. If you have done this alredy and I haven’t been there to read it, I’m sorry.

Blessings abound! Pat White

]]> Comment on Share your story by Nathan Carico http://cornerstonekaty.org/2011/12/share-your-story/#comment-373 Nathan Carico Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:59:20 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3452#comment-373 One way I have seen God work in my life recently is by using the Fanning the Flame process to unify my family. 2 weeks before Christmas, Brooke and I went away to a lake house north of San Antonio by ourselves for 3 days. It was an amazing time of rest for us. We were able to walk around with deer, have conversation with one another, conversation with God, and immerse ourselves in his Word without any distractions. This was significant after a long year filled with great struggle and significant loss. During this time away the Lord laid it on our hearts to develop a family mission statement. We were asking Him questions like: "What should our lives and our family look like if we are following You?" "How have you uniquely gifted us a family to serve you?" "how would you, God, have the Caricos live for the next 11 years?" We used 11 years as a measure because that is when our youngest (Autumn) will be 18 and hopefully getting ready to leave to become a more independent image bearer of God, seeking His direction for her life. One afternoon at Canyon Lake, Brooke and I spent time making lists, storyboarding, dreaming, and she drew pictures of all of these things and we came up with a common thread that seems to run through our family. We love story. Story in theatre, story in song, story in TV dramas and films, in novels, we love listening to the stories of others, and we love sharing our story. Most importantly, we see ourselves in God's story. This drama in which God is redeeming the world through the death and resurrection of his Son and His already/not yet kingdom that is unfolding as we speak. After hours of prayer and meditation on this we came up with this mission for our family. For the next 11 years..."the Caricos exist to know, share, and live out the story of God's kingdom come on Earth as it is in Heaven." Knowing the Story -- We will continue to tell one another this story through various means, but we will point back all education and all knowing to this drama. Sharing the Story -- What ways can we as Carico's share the story of God's kingdom come in our family? Through relationships and conversation? through music? Through the arts? Live Out the Story -- What ways can we as Carico's live out the story? Strengthening our family and our extended families…self sacrificial love to one another and to our neighbors who are deeply broken. Also, we decided that some day we want a big garden…subdue and have dominion…this is living out kingdom come on Earth. There are other things that we dreamed that come under these three headings but I just wanted to share some ways that God is leading us at this time as a family. I am hoping this mission will give our lives more significance/direction and less chaos. As our kids get older and busier we hope to filter everything we do through this mission. We tried to make it broad enough not to limit God in what he can do through us, but also we wanted to make it defined enough to give our lives focus. If nothing else, it united Brooke and I together. Thanks be to God for his work in our lives! One way I have seen God work in my life recently is by using the Fanning the Flame process to unify my family. 2 weeks before Christmas, Brooke and I went away to a lake house north of San Antonio by ourselves for 3 days. It was an amazing time of rest for us. We were able to walk around with deer, have conversation with one another, conversation with God, and immerse ourselves in his Word without any distractions. This was significant after a long year filled with great struggle and significant loss. During this time away the Lord laid it on our hearts to develop a family mission statement. We were asking Him questions like: “What should our lives and our family look like if we are following You?” “How have you uniquely gifted us a family to serve you?” “how would you, God, have the Caricos live for the next 11 years?” We used 11 years as a measure because that is when our youngest (Autumn) will be 18 and hopefully getting ready to leave to become a more independent image bearer of God, seeking His direction for her life.

One afternoon at Canyon Lake, Brooke and I spent time making lists, storyboarding, dreaming, and she drew pictures of all of these things and we came up with a common thread that seems to run through our family. We love story. Story in theatre, story in song, story in TV dramas and films, in novels, we love listening to the stories of others, and we love sharing our story. Most importantly, we see ourselves in God’s story. This drama in which God is redeeming the world through the death and resurrection of his Son and His already/not yet kingdom that is unfolding as we speak. After hours of prayer and meditation on this we came up with this mission for our family. For the next 11 years…”the Caricos exist to know, share, and live out the story of God’s kingdom come on Earth as it is in Heaven.”

Knowing the Story — We will continue to tell one another this story through various means, but we will point back all education and all knowing to this drama.
Sharing the Story — What ways can we as Carico’s share the story of God’s kingdom come in our family? Through relationships and conversation? through music? Through the arts?
Live Out the Story — What ways can we as Carico’s live out the story? Strengthening our family and our extended families…self sacrificial love to one another and to our neighbors who are deeply broken. Also, we decided that some day we want a big garden…subdue and have dominion…this is living out kingdom come on Earth.

There are other things that we dreamed that come under these three headings but I just wanted to share some ways that God is leading us at this time as a family.

I am hoping this mission will give our lives more significance/direction and less chaos. As our kids get older and busier we hope to filter everything we do through this mission. We tried to make it broad enough not to limit God in what he can do through us, but also we wanted to make it defined enough to give our lives focus. If nothing else, it united Brooke and I together. Thanks be to God for his work in our lives!

]]> Comment on Resolve for a Long Apprenticeship by kent saugier http://cornerstonekaty.org/2011/12/resolve-for-a-long-apprenticeship/#comment-371 kent saugier Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:18:31 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3500#comment-371 Thank you for that post Carter, it is encouraging to me. i am reminded of two things. First, that the path to destruction is broad because and is traveled by so many people. Second, that transformation is by the power of god. Thank you for that post Carter, it is encouraging to me. i am reminded of two things. First, that the path to destruction is broad because and is traveled by so many people. Second, that transformation is by the power of god.

]]> Comment on Resolve for a Long Apprenticeship by Evelyn Saugier http://cornerstonekaty.org/2011/12/resolve-for-a-long-apprenticeship/#comment-370 Evelyn Saugier Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:11:53 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3500#comment-370 When I realize that what is described above as the "tourist mindset"(so common to us all) is really just another form of trusting in my human reasoning, I find it easier to let it go! It's the opposite of trust, in that I can depend more on my "making something happen" than on the fact that God's plans have, perhaps, very little to do with my plotting and planning! He is sovereign, and will do what He will do, however we may try to "package" our faith. I appreciate your candor Carter, and your encouragement to persevere in our apprenticeships; it helps to remember that there is no instant discipleship. When I realize that what is described above as the “tourist mindset”(so common to us all) is really just another form of trusting in my human reasoning, I find it easier to let it go! It’s the opposite of trust, in that I can depend more on my “making something happen” than on the fact that God’s plans have, perhaps, very little to do with my plotting and planning! He is sovereign, and will do what He will do, however we may try to “package” our faith. I appreciate your candor Carter, and your encouragement to persevere in our apprenticeships; it helps to remember that there is no instant discipleship.

]]> Comment on Share your story by Carter http://cornerstonekaty.org/2011/12/share-your-story/#comment-369 Carter Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:33:42 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3452#comment-369 Reagan, thanks for sharing about your grandaddy. Your story and video are moving and filled with such hope! Reagan, thanks for sharing about your grandaddy. Your story and video are moving and filled with such hope!

]]> Comment on Share your story by Carter http://cornerstonekaty.org/2011/12/share-your-story/#comment-368 Carter Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:32:14 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3452#comment-368 Susie, thanks for sharing. You and Johnny are an encouraging model for us. Susie, thanks for sharing. You and Johnny are an encouraging model for us.

]]> Comment on Resolve for a Long Apprenticeship by Resolution Resources | Cornerstone http://cornerstonekaty.org/2011/12/resolve-for-a-long-apprenticeship/#comment-367 Resolution Resources | Cornerstone Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:44:07 +0000 http://cornerstonekaty.org/?p=3500#comment-367 [...] Share your story Resolve for a Long Apprenticeship [...] [...] Share your story Resolve for a Long Apprenticeship [...]

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