Cornerstone Christian Fellowship

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________      Description: Continuing the theme of suffering for righteousness, Peter calls Christians to remain tethered and anchored in their suffering by looking to Christ, the hope of future glory, and the presence of His Spirit. He calls us to rejoice in suffering, to persist in doing good, and to entrust our souls to a f...

Sermon Series: Titus— How a Rightly Ordered Church Tells the Truth About God and the Gospel.    Speaker: Tony Billington    ________    Main Idea: We live like we have the hope of eternal life because God, our Savior, washed us and renewed us by the Holy Spirit, generously through Jesus Christ our Savior.    ________    Application: Those who believe in the God who cannot lie will engage in good d...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________      Description: Considering the victory that is ours in Christ through his suffering, resurrection, and ascension, Peter calls Christians to arm themselves for the dying life of this world and to live for the world to come in the light of Christ’s return.    __________    Main Idea: Christians embrace the dying life...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________      Description: Within the ongoing theme of suffering in Peter’s letter, this week’s passage emphasizes the victory Christ has accomplished through his suffering and how we share in it.   ________       Main Idea:  Those who trust in the suffering, risen, and ascended Christ share in his victory.    __________    I....

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________      Description: Peter continues the theme of suffering for righteousness, which takes the focus of much of the rest of the letter. In these verses, the emphasis is on Christian witness and readiness to suffer and respond with the hope of a better life as chosen strangers on a journey between two worlds.    _________...

Sermon Series: Titus— How a Rightly Ordered Church Tells the Truth About God and the Gospel.    Speaker: Tony Billington    ________    This Sunday, Tony Billington will continue the series in Titus on how a rightly ordered church tells the truth about God and the gospel. This time, focusing on how we live this out through relationships in the church.     __________    Main Idea: We live like we h...

Sermon Series: Titus— How a Rightly Ordered Church Tells the Truth About God and the Gospel.    Speaker: Tony Billington    ________    This Sunday, Tony Billington will continue the series in Titus on how a rightly ordered church tells the truth about God and the gospel. This time, focusing on the godly character necessary for this way of living.  ____________  Main Idea: God wants leaders in his...

Sermon Series: Titus—How a Rightly Ordered Church Tells the Truth About God and the Gospel.    Speaker: Tony Billington    ________    Main Idea: God our Savior, who cannot lie, promises us the hope of eternal life through the knowledge and faith of Christ Jesus our Savior.    ________    Application: Those chosen of God should live like we have the hope of eternal life by listening to the God who...

Sermon Series: Isaiah Speaker: Elder Seth Sherwood  __________      Description: Isaiah 45 reveals God’s power over time, nature, and circumstance, seen particularly in his calling of Cyrus, a pagan king, to participate in his redemptive purposes for Israel.    ________     Main Idea: God is sovereign and does all things for the sake of His elect.     ________         I.  God is sovereign:        ...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________      In this passage, Peter concludes a larger section that began in 2:11, dealing with our identity as sojourners and exiles and the call to live in such a way that brings glory to God amid suffering. He has shown how we live this out as citizens, servants, wives, and husbands. Now he turns to apply the context of ou...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________      In this passage, Peter shows us how we are to live as servants in the home. He applies this call to both wives and husbands in their respective roles. What he is calling for is submission within the institution of marriage in such a way that points each other and the world to Jesus and tells the truth about the g...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________      In this passage, Peter shows us how we are to suffer as servants in this world. Not only is our suffering considered gracious in God’s eyes, but it is a testimony of our faith in him and his faithfulness to us. More than this, in our service and suffering, we are following the example of the one who suffered for...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________      Description: In this passage, Peter shows us how we are to live as citizens of this world on our way to a better world by lives of good deeds in submission to earthly authorities. After introducing this section on how we are to live as chosen strangers on a journey between two worlds, Peter now begins to show how...

Sermon Series: Special Services Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________    Description: John’s Gospel is known for several ‘signs’ that are intended to show who Jesus is as the Son of God who has come to save the world from sin and death. The raising of Lazarus is the last of those signs and shows Christ’s power over death and the grave, foreshadowing the power of his resurrected life, which i...

Sermon Series: Special Services       Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________    Description: We may not wrestle with the question of what is so ‘good’ about Good Friday. On this side of the cross, it may seem like a silly question. But our present hope in future glory that was accomplished on the cross and in the resurrection of Jesus was all but clear on that day. On that day, the weight of...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________    Description: In the last passage, Peter focused on our individual identity as children of God and our responsibility within the family of God. As children, we love one another earnestly and grow together diligently. Here he shifts to our corporate identity: the church as a dwelling place for God, built on the found...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________    Description: Peter continues to show us how to live as chosen strangers on a journey between two worlds by lives that are marked by love for one another. This love is not something we conjure up but is founded on the gospel of our hope and salvation in Christ, and calls us to live in such a way that shows that we a...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________    Description: In this section, Peter moves from the grounds of our hope to the outworking of our salvation. Everything that follows in his letter is based on the previous passage, with our hope and salvation set on the resurrection and return of Jesus Christ. He is our only hope in life and death. We have new life a...

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    __________    Description: Peter begins the body of his letter by pointing these chosen strangers to the living hope they have in this world, on their way to the salvation that is to come. The ideas of present hope and coming salvation are paralleled by the resurrection and return of Christ.    __________    Main Idea: Our hope...

Speaker: Tony Billington    __________    Main Idea: God wants His people scattered over the whole Earth to make His name great.        Application: Humbly let God use you to make His name great, bringing His kingdom to the whole Earth.   

Speaker: David Nelson    ________     Description: David’s kindness to Mephibosheth presents a powerful model of mercy and compassion, while pointing to one greater than David who is merciful to us in our weakness.    __________        I.  Is there a seat at your table for another?        II. Do you have a seat at the King’s table?   

Sermon Series: Between Two Worlds    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    ________     Description: This message introduces the series with the various themes included in the introductory greeting of Peter’s letter.    ________     Main Idea: Grace and peace are multiplied to us as we grow in the gospel.            I.  We grow in the gospel by knowing who we are.             a. Called by the Father. ...

Sermon Series: Noah      Speaker: Tony Billington       ________     Title: Our Different God    Text: Genesis 8:1 (Genesis 6-9)    __________    Main Idea: Because our God is different, God remembers us in Our Chaos.    __________    Application: Partner with God as an agent of order.    

Sermon Series: Isaiah    Speaker: Seth Sherwood    ________    Description: Considering the significance of God as Creator in Isaiah 40.    ________    I.  Revelation of the Creator God (vs. 12-28).    II.  The Strength He Provides to Those Who Wait on Him (29-31).    

Sermon Series: Seeing Christ in the Old Testament: Types, Shadows, Prophecies & Promises    Speaker: Pastor Josh Sherrell    ________    Description: The series concludes with the conversation on the Road to Emmaus, where the risen Christ, though veiled from their eyes, unfolds the mystery of the things concerning himself in all the Old Testament.    ________    Christ is the source and fulfil...