Cornerstone Church - Atlanta, GA

Some problems in life can be solved simply by ignoring them, they tend to just go away. Other problems simply get worse. When we find ourselves having problems with the way that God wants to run our lives, that's not a problem that we can just ignore. God won't be ignored and is bent on confronting us. Quite frankly, that's the best news that we could ever imagine. God shows the depth of His compa...

The fact that God speaks to us is a truth that has become all to familiar. This familiarity has caused that great truth to lose its force. We can get so preoccupied with a desire to hear from God that we forget that the most important thing isn't hearing from Him, but heeding HIs words. As we start a new series in the book of Jonah, we take some time to understand that how we treat God's word, rev...

The church is under attack, but not how you might think. When we think of the most dangerous pitfalls to the health of the church we usually think of external forces. However, there's an internal danger that threatens the effectiveness of every church. Simple neglect. Left unchecked it can cause major disunity. We look at Acts 6 to see how the church dealt with it and what our role is in maintaini...

In the world that we live in Christianity is often critiqued. Because of many bad examples, people tend to think of hypocrisy when talking about the church or the Christian faith. However, as we look at the life of Jesus we see that Christians should be marked first and foremost by a humble posture of service. Pastor Trip preaches from Philippians 2 and encourages us, based on Christ's example, to...

What does God want from me? It's a question that shapes everything about our lives, but we'll never get to a meaningful answer if we start with trying to find out what actions God wants. Before we can give God what He wants, we have to know who God is. Service doesn't start with what you do, but who you worship.

There is a god-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man, and only God can fill it. The world that we live in all addresses this gap and attempts to fill it with things that fall very short of providing us with contentment. Our guest preacher William "Duce" Branch helps us see how God satisfies us completely in Christ.

Pastor Trip preaches on the importance of words in the life of the Christian. We're reminded that if we want to see the state of our hearts, the best way for us to do that is to look carefully at our words.

Pastor Trip preaches on the importance of music in the life of the Christian. When it comes to engaging with God, to ignore music is to accept unfaithfulness.

Pastor Trip preaches about what work should look like in the everyday lives of God people. The most important thing about our work isn't the particular type of work that we do, but our posture towards the work that we do.

Based on our past experiences with faith, frustrating times and failure, all of us have to come form certain conclusions about life. It's easy to come to expect certain things from the lives that we live. But if Jesus really did raise from the dead, then nothing about life as we knew it has to stay the same. We finish our Mark series by looking at how the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus ch...

Jesus' words in Mark 13 to his disciples offer a great reminder for those of us that find ourselves either distracted by the impressive things of this life, or distressed by the depressing things we experience. We are best equipped to live in the here and now, not by looking to these things, but by looking forward. Jesus helps us see that we shouldn't put our trust in what's temporary, nor should...

Being right about God isn't the same thing as being right with God. In Mark 12, Jesus helps someone who agrees with Him understand that He's looking for more than just right actions.

What good does your spiritual resume do when you stand before God? The bad news is that whatever you have falls short. The good news is, that Jesus can give you His.

As Jesus nears his death, he looks at two groups of people who are involved in religious practices. While outwardly both groups seem to be doing good, Jesus looks deeper and condemns one group while commends the other. What's the difference? Pastor Richard explains as he preaches from Mark 12.

How does the life to come shape the life you presently control? The hope of the resurrection is meant to provide more relief than just at funerals or in personal evangelism. The hope of the resurrection is supposed to provide very relevant hope for our daily lives.

How do we as Christians navigate the racial and political tensions that exist in our world, our nation, our homes and even our church. As we constantly find ourself facing situations where it feels like every choice we make has the potential to be the wrong one? In Mark 12:13-17 we see Jesus facing a similar problem and with 13 words, He turns our world upside down. "Render to Caesar what is Caesa...

Pastor Trip preaches from 1 John 3:16-18 about the authenticating signs of love. Real love shows up in our actions.

When the reality of death hits us close to home we instinctively go searching for a real sense of peace. Death has a way of showing us how inadequate our past search for peace has been. In Psalms 23 we see where David (a man who has felt what it means to walk through the valley of the shadow of death) has found a true peace for real pain.

For the Christian, love is how we know whether or not we're alive.

Knowing God means, you don't have to know shame

Knowing God Means....you don't have to know the future.

Knowing God means you don't have to know despair.

It's no secret that as humans we all want something. But what may be less apparent, is that at the end of the day, we really all want the same thing. That thing. The ability to "not want"--in other words we all want contentment. Is there a way to really find true contentment in this life amidst all of our other wants? If we're ever going to true rest it's not going to be as a result of our work, b...

The most repeated command in the Bible to us is to "Fear not". We all know that just because something is repeated, it doesn't necessarily make it any more real for us. God, offers us two reasons why we shouldn't fear. His presence and His provision. What knowing God means is that we don't have to know fear.

We tend to live our lives for the avoidance of pain. Because we think that suffering tends to stand in the way of our joy we find ourselves constantly longing for things that will make our lives easier and more enjoyable. While this pathway seems like the one that will lead us to joy, Jesus walks a different path. He shows us that suffering doesn't stand in the way of our joy, it is the actual pat...