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

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 Call to Worship. The Call to Worship is exactly what the words mean – it is a call to God’s people to come in to God’s presence, on God’s Day, to worship Him.  The reason we… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, Continuing with our discussion of the Order of Worship or Liturgy, we will now dive into the specifics of our service. The first three parts of our Order of Worship have to do with preparation. It begins with the Prelude. During the prelude, the music team is signifying that it is time to take… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, A few weeks ago, I wrote about Doxological Evangelism and promised that I would take some time in future pastor’s corners to write about our order of worship that we use during Sunday morning worship.  What is an Order of Worship or Liturgy? It is just that – it is the formal way… Continue Reading

Dear Friends, At the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown finally gets his answer to what Christmas is all about when Linus reads the Christmas story from Luke 2. And, of course, Christmas is all about a Savior being born who is Christ the Lord. But what is Easter all about?  That is the… Continue Reading