Cornerstone Church

Have you ever let one failure define how you see yourself? What if the moment you wish you could erase could become a place where God helps you grow? In Week 4 of Follow, guest speaker Trey VanCamp opens Mark 10:32-45 to explore what it means to become like Jesus. Beginning with Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, a woman who stopped every clock after a devastating disappointme...

Why is change so hard, even when you want it? What do you do when the habits that once helped you get through life start keeping you stuck? In Week 3 of Follow, Scott Savage opens Mark 8:11-21 to explore why moving forward often means unlearning old patterns. Beginning with a dishwasher disaster and the everyday habits we pick up from others, Scott asks us to consider how family, culture, past exp...

Week 2

Do you believe Jesus enjoys being with you, or do you picture him as disappointed and just putting up with you? Can you do all the right Christian things and still miss the relationship at the center of it all? In Week 1 of Follow, Josh McClintock opens Mark 3:13-15 to explore where following Jesus begins. Using a puzzle filled with familiar Christian activities, Josh shows how church, prayer, Bib...

How can you tell when a thought that feels true is actually a lie? What would change if you stopped agreeing with the beliefs keeping you stuck? In Week 3 of Kill the Spider, Scott Savage closes the series by exploring John 8:31-36 and how Jesus leads us into real freedom. Through the surprising story of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle being fooled by staged fairy photographs and the st...

Does God care about what you’re going through? When he seems silent, does that mean you’re on your own? In Week 2 of Kill the Spider, Scott Savage explores Mark 4:35-41 and the stories we tell ourselves about painful experiences. Through the disciples’ encounter with a storm and his own struggle with criticism, approval, and burnout, Scott asks us to consider how what happened to us has shaped wha...

Why do the same struggles keep coming back, no matter how disciplined you try to be? What if the behavior you are fighting is only a symptom of something deeper? In Week 1 of Kill the Spider , Scott Savage opens Genesis 3:1-7 to explain why trying harder doesn’t work. Beginning with a moldy loaf of bread hidden in a college apartment and the story behind Carlos Whittaker’s Kill the Spider , Scott...

What do you do when failure, loss, or disappointment leaves you wondering whether you can begin again? How do you move forward when you cannot yet see where a new beginning will lead? In this standalone message, Why Failure Does Not Get the Last Word , Scott Savage turns to Lamentations 3:21-26 and the story of Theodore Roosevelt to show why starting over is rarely simple. In the middle of Jerusal...

What is your anxiety trying to tell you? Is it the problem itself, or is it a warning light pointing toward something deeper? In this follow-up conversation from Week 3 of At The Movies, Lead Pastor Scott Savage and Jake Downing discuss what Inside Out 2 gets right about anxiety, identity, emotional health, and the pressure to fit in. The film gives memorable imagery to experiences that can be dif...

What happens when feelings change after a promise has been made? How do we begin again when a vow has been broken? In this follow-up conversation from Week 2 of At The Movies, Lead Pastor Scott Savage and Jake Downing discuss what The Vow reveals about marriage, commitment, broken promises, and the grace to start again.. After Paige loses her memory, Leo tries to rebuild their relationship and hon...

What does revenge cost us when we refuse to let go? Can forgiveness set us free without excusing the person who hurt us? In this follow-up conversation from Week 1 of At The Movies , Lead Pastor Scott Savage and Jake Downing discuss what True Grit reveals about revenge, bitterness, grace, and the difficult work of forgiveness. The film follows 14-year-old Maddie Ross as she pursues the man who mur...

Why do people defend choices that cause obvious harm? How can something feel right to us while leading us farther from God? In Week 11 of In Their Own Eyes , Scott Savage concludes the series by teaching through Judges 19–21, one of the darkest passages in the Bible. A Levite refuses responsibility for his actions, the tribe of Benjamin protects guilty men, and Israel’s pursuit of justice becomes...

What are you afraid to lose? If the person, possession, achievement, or plan that makes you feel secure disappeared, what would you have left? In Week 10 of In Their Own Eyes , Scott Savage teaches from Judges 17–18, where Micah builds a religion designed to give him security and control. Using stolen silver, household idols, an ephod, and a hired Levite, Micah convinces himself that God must bles...

What happens when a God-given strength becomes the place where you stop depending on God? Could you keep succeeding and never realize that you are operating on autopilot? In Week 9 of In Their Own Eyes , Jake Downing teaches from Judges 16 and the final chapter of Samson's life. Samson had been set apart by God and given extraordinary strength, but years of compromise taught him to treat that gift...

What if the choices that shape your life are not the dramatic ones, but the small compromises you barely notice? What if visible success has convinced you that God approves of habits that are quietly pulling you away from Him? In Week 8 of *In Their Own Eyes*, Dr. Brian Koning teaches from Judges 13-15 and the early life of Samson. Long before Delilah and Samson’s public collapse, God chooses him...

What if you know the truth about God but still struggle to trust Him? What if your faith has become more about control, bargaining, or performance than confidence in God’s character? In Week 7 of In Their Own Eyes , Scott Savage continues through the book of Judges with the story of Jephthah in Judges 10-12. Jephthah is a complicated figure: rejected by his family, called back by his people, able...

What do you do when it feels like evil is winning? What happens when revenge feels like the only way to make things right? In Week 6 of In Their Own Eyes, Scott Savage teaches from Judges 9 and the brutal story of Abimelech. After Gideon's death, Abimelech uses family wounds, political ambition, and money from Baal-Berith to seize power, kill his brothers, and become the kind of ruler Israel thoug...

Why do we keep asking God for signs when He has already shown us the next step? What if the real issue is not that God has been silent, but that we are still hiding from what He has called us to do? In Week 4 of our series, In Their Own Eyes, Scott Savage continues through the book of Judges with the story of Gideon in Judges 6. Gideon is hiding in a wine press when God calls him a mighty warrior,...

Why do we keep repeating the same destructive patterns, even when we know where they lead? How can we break the cycle before it causes more damage? In Week 3 of In Their Own Eyes , guest speaker Jeff Gokee teaches from Judges 4 and the story of Deborah, Barak, Sisera, and Jael. Israel repeatedly rebels, suffers the consequences, cries out to God, and experiences restoration. But the cycle is not s...

What do you do when you know the right things about God, but He no longer feels real in your heart? What happens when faith becomes something you remember with your head, but no longer live with your whole life? In Week 2 of our series, In Their Own Eyes, Scott Savage continues through the book of Judges with Judges 3:7-31. Through the stories of Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar, we see how God responds...

Week 1

Why do we so often measure impact by reach, attention, and visible results? What if some of the most meaningful influence in your life happens through the people right in front of you? In Week 7 of The Table, Dr. Brian Koning teaches from Acts 20:17-38, where Paul gathers the Ephesian elders on the beach at Miletus for a final farewell. Paul has preached to crowds, performed miracles, and carried...

What is the most important question a person can ask? In Week 6 of The Table, Scott Savage walks through Acts 16 and the unforgettable moment when a desperate jailer asks, “What must I do to be saved?” Through the story of Paul and Silas in prison, this message reveals how God often works through pain, opposition, and the places we never would have chosen. What happens when life falls apart and ev...

What if the people you struggle to understand are the very people God is pursuing? What happens when Jesus challenges the labels, assumptions, and divisions we place on others? In Week 5 of The Table, Scott Savage walks through Acts 10, 11, and 15 to explore the life-changing moment when God reshaped Peter’s understanding of grace, belonging, and who gets a seat at the table. Through the story of...

Why do relationships fall apart? And when they do, is it even possible to fix what’s been broken? In Week 4 of The Table, Pastor Scott Savage explores Acts 6 and uncovers the real reasons relationships break down—and what it actually takes to restore them. Conflict isn’t the exception in life, it’s the norm. The real question is whether we avoid it, or learn how to handle it in a healthy, biblical...