Dear Friends, I don’t know about you, but the news is tiring. I find myself wanting to keep up with current events but the incessant, non-stop political coverage is exhausting. What happened to the days of reporting news stories that actually told stories? Maybe I’m miss-remembering and simply committing the “good-ole-days” fallacy.  We know that we live… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, Last week I addressed the Scripture Reading portion of our service. Continuing in our series on our Liturgy or Order of Worship, we come to the midpoint in our service where we often have flexibility with what we do in this portion of the service. Before the Offertory and the Sermon, we usually have a piece… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, It has been a while, but I wanted to get back to our series on Cornerstone’s Liturgy or Order of Worship. Back in June, I wrote about the Praise and Adoration portion of our worship service. Continuing in our series, I want to now address the Scripture Reading portion of our service. In our order of worship,… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, What a blessing this past Sunday was as we installed new officers in our church! I’m thankful to the Lord for raising up these brothers. Please be in prayer for the officers and staff of the church – that God would give us wisdom and direction in all that we do.  I wanted… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, I want to tell you about two things regarding this Sunday’s Worship Service. First, as many of you know, our worship service has been full these past few Sundays. What a blessing! However, it has created some challenges with families being able to sit together. To help with this challenge, our deacons have… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, It’s hard to believe that summer is almost over as August arrives and children go back to school. But with a new season comes a new season for ministry at Cornerstone. There are some exciting things coming up that I want to tell you about and remind you of. Preaching! Our journey through Psalms… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, This week a team from Cornerstone has been at the Yakama Reservation in Washington, partnering with Sacred Road Ministries. We will be hearing a report from the team in the worship service on July 28. Please continue to pray for them as they return home this weekend. Pray also for the people of… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.  (Acts 14:23 ESV) One of the great privileges that God’s people have in a presbyterian form of government is the responsibility to nominate and elect men to… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, Continuing in our series on Liturgy or Order of Worship, we now come to the Praise and Adoration portion of our worship service. This follows the Call to Worship and Invocation. After we are reminded of why we gather to worship and after we invoke the presence of our benevolent God, asking Him to be… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, Continuing in this series of discussion in the Pastor’s Corner on the Order of Worship or Liturgy, we come now to the Invocation. The Invocation is the opening prayer in our service whereby we are invoking the presence of God to superintend our worship of Him. This prayer is about God and to God.  There are several things that should be noted… Continue Reading