Cornerstone Church - Atlanta, GA

Leadership is one of God's greatest gifts to the church. The world in which we live has many different definitions of what it means to be a leader. The apostle Paul gives us a different take on what godly leadership looks like in the life of believers. Pastor Moe closes out our Pillars series by looking at (1) the strength of a leader (2) the work of a leader and (3) the life of a leader.

We can find everything we need in God.

To live is Christ and to die is gain.

In prayer, we long for God's presence before (and more) than His provision.

When God saved us, He didn't just take out of danger, He took us into His family. Because we are adopted we have God as Father and glory in our future.

Weakness isn't a curse, it's a gift from God that makes us humble, dependent, and ultimately strong. True strength comes through weakness.

You biggest fight in life is a fight against isolation, not imperfections. In Ecclesiastes 4, we're challenged to accept life's imperfections while fighting to avoid isolation.

God's promises of future judgment is meant to keep our hearts from being discouraged, it's not meant to keep our hands from getting dirty. God's promises free us from the anxiety that comes from worrying about the future. The fact that He has the future covered gives us the freedom to spend this one life we have to live well.

The key to finding joy in this life comes from realizing the limits that are placed on us. Life is meant to be managed, not manipulated. The sooner we understand that, the sooner we can enjoy our present life as a gift from God. Ecclesiastes 3 we see three truths that must be grasped in order for us to have present joy. You aren't in control. God has complete control. God has perfect control.

God given resources are meant to be shared, not hoarded.

Everyone is a counselor, the issue is whether you'll be a good one or not. Christians have a responsibility to speak into situations with wisdom of God. The church grows to maturity as Christians embrace their responsibility to give advice, comfort, and correction.

If you fail to plan, you plan to pail. Sayings like that communicate the reality that looking to the future is the key to our success. And while that may be the case, the future is also the very thing that fuels our present anxiety. Anxiety can either cause you live for LATER (obsess over the future) or LOITER (ignore the future and just enjoy now). The future may be the key to our earthly success...

Everyone of us goes through life with a nagging sense that something's missing. There's a feeling of emptiness that leads to attempts on our part to fill the emptiness. For those of us that consider ourselves good and moral, it's easy to think that our biggest battle is to stay away from immoral pleasures in favor of immoral pleasures. However, the author of Ecclesiastes seems to think different....

Knowledge is power. It's a statement that we're all too familiar with. We know how powerful knowledge can be because we know the pain that ignorance can cause. We've all known the regret that comes along with the statement, "if only I knew then what I know now." Lack of knowledge about certain things seems to be the source of pain and loss in many of our lives. Knowledge, seems like something that...

The garden of our ideal life is littered with disappointments. Nothing in the life that we have is disappointment proof--regardless of how hard we work to make it so. When it comes to the business of living, we find ourselves moving from asking "how do I accomplish my goals" to "why do I exist? what am I even working for?". As we start our series in Ecclesiastes we see that the author of the book...

When it comes to interacting with other people, our preferences can easily become our prejudices. It's easy to be drawn to people that are impressive and distance ourselves from people that are unimpressive. In James chapter 2, we are reminded that God doesn't play favorites and that is the best news that people like us could ever hear.

How Christ came into the world, reveals why Christ came into the world. His birth in a manger served as a megaphone to announce to the world the reason for His coming. And if we understand that, it will drastically change the way we look at the world around us.

In Jesus, we get the best picture of what God's intention was for creating humanity. Jesus shows what it truly means to be human.

Our attention to others shows our attitude towards their Creator.

It's only a high view of God that yields a right view of man.

As we continue our series in Romans 10 we're reminded that salvation is something that is never out of reach.

When it comes to religion, people often tend to think that sincere intentions are the only thing that matters. Our attempts to please God, if misdirected, could actually keep us from God Himself. As we look at Romans 10, we'll see that chasing righteousness on our own only ensures that we'll never find it. However, Jesus offers us a better solution and a better hope.

When we truly see as God sees, then we'll feel as God feels. As we finish our series in the book of Jonah, we see how God patiently provides his perspective to us--reminding us that He wants more than compliance from us, He desires to produce compassion in us.

The hope of Christ's return in the future, gives us great energy to be all about His work in the present.

All of us have received good advice in the past about ways that we can prevent trouble in our lives. The bad news is, when we fail to take that advice and find ourselves in present trouble we can often feel helpless and hopeless. What do you do when you've it rock bottom and you have no one to blame but yourself? If we look at the life of Jonah we see that even weak prayers offered to a willing Sa...