On Our Way Home

Send us Fan Mail We should GUARD THE GOSPEL with our lives!  This is the message of this text and in this message Pastor Joel describes the 5 ways that we, as a body of believers, Jesus's Church, should PROTECT the Gospel we were given by faith. We should HONOR God through our work, REFLECT God's character, use our WEALTH for ETERNAL PURPOSES, PURSUE GODLINESS not GREED, and PROTECT the...

Send us Fan Mail What THREE WORDS would you use to describe how the Church should live its life surrendered to Jesus Christ? In our sermon from 1 Timothy 5, the Apostle Paul describes how the Church should live: honoring one another, caring for one another, and living our lives in integrity as we follow Jesus Christ. This is easy to say and very hard to do.  We must rely on the power of the Holy S...

Send us Fan Mail Today, TRUTH is under attack.  There are many false teachers whose teaching is leading Christians away from the truth of the Scriptures. When God's Word get twisted and when living in the World gets hard, how do we remain FAITHFUL to God, the Church, and His Word? As you listen to this sermon, you will hear how we should GUARD the truth, pursue TRAINING in the truth, and stay...

Send us Fan Mail What are the roles that are essential for the church of Jesus Christ to have in order to be healthy, led well, and functioning the way God intended? Pastor Joel will break down the character qualities that God requires of His called ones that lead and serve His Church. When the Church is structured the way the God intended and His servant leaders are humbling obeying all that He h...

Send us Fan Mail Does God have good designs for order and structure in the family and in His church and as we gather to worship together today? Yes, He does!   Does our culture also have plans that misunderstand God's good structure and put forward a plan that doesn't agree with God's plan for leadership in the home and in the church? Yes it does.  So what will we do?  Is the Bible...

Send us Fan Mail Can we really trust the Bible?  Is it authoritative  for our lives today?  Can we live our lives based on its God-given truth?  Or is the Bible just a good book with some good suggestions, written by some good guys? In this sermon, Pastor Joel unpacks the heart of Paul's personal letter to Timothy, his son in the faith.  Not only is this a challenge and encouragement to Timot...

Send us Fan Mail Praise and worship when the Body of Christ gathers each Sunday is powerful and transforms us. But what is involved in planning and executing praise as a Worship Team?  How do God's Word and the Holy Spirit work together with our Praise Team to bring us to the point of praise TOGETHER? Jake, Rachel, and Ryan, talk about the many parts and pieces of Praise based on our Cornerst...

Send us Fan Mail It's great to CELEBRATE GOD.  We are made to PRAISE THE LORD!  On today's podcast we get to CELEBRATE all that God was able to do through our TWO summer interns as they served the body of Christ in children and student ministry and led our Keepers of the Kingdom VBS! God can do immeasurably more that all we ASK or IMAGINE.  And you'll want to listen and watch every...

Send us Fan Mail When we come to truly believe in Jesus as our Savior and Lord, everything changes!  We are brought from darkness into Jesus' GLORIOUS LIGHT. Salvation is more than just an emotional response.  The Gospel is a Transformational Reality that saves, keeps, and changes us. But what happens if we wander?  What happens if we become an atheist?  What happens if we pursue a life of pa...

Send us Fan Mail We want to make Disciples of Jesus that make Disciples of Jesus.  But sometimes we get distracted, discouraged, or derailed from our mission.  Which is why a RE-IGNITING VISION is needed and why we're focusing our attention on our VISION for 2023 today! Jason and Ryan talk about how the KEY DISCIPLINES of prayer, God's Word, praising Jesus, and time with other followers...

Send us Fan Mail A life that is changed by Jesus through faith in Him is truly life at its best!   Our lives don't change simply by trying to modify our behavior from the outside.  When Jesus rescues you from your sins and gives you NEW LIFE, God begins the work of changing our lives from the inside out through His Holy Spirit that He gives to us. But how does this change begin and continue t...

Send us Fan Mail One of the best things we can do with our life is INVEST in the next generation! Especially when we can invest in the next generation that is FOLLOWING JESUS, we are doing exactly what Jesus wants us to do in making disciples that keep making disciples. This summer at Cornerstone we are blessed to have Eleah and Jessie serving on our team in children and student ministries and esp...

Send us Fan Mail No one likes being stagnant.  The Status Quo.  The Same Old, Same Old. So what do you have when you aren't content with where you are in your relationship with Jesus or God's Word?  You have A HOLY DISCONTENT! Which is the title and focus of On Our Way Home today.  Listen and Watch as Roy, Jason, and Ryan really work to break down what a holy discontent is and what we sh...

Send us Fan Mail God has called each one of us to reach people by sharing His Good News!  But what are the key ways that God uses to work  in our friendships and relationships so that people will come to believe in Jesus as their Savior and follow Jesus as their Lord? Kurt and Allen share the story of their friendship with Ryan today and how God worked to bring Allen and his wife to faith in Jesus...

Send us Fan Mail We have so many blessings in our lives.  The greatest of these blessings come to us through FAITH in JESUS CHRIST. So how can we live in response to all the blessings that God has given us?  Jason and Ryan discuss the blessings God gives in Romans 5:1-11 and how the blessings of peace with God, reconciliation, being declared righteous by God through faith, and developing character...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus' Resurrection from the dead on the third day is the MAIN EVENT of history, eternity, and our lives. But sometimes we can overlook or undervalue the POWER and the IMPORTANCE of the RESURRECTION.  How does the resurrection affect our lives today?  How can we make Jesus' victorious life our experience in every day? Joel and Ryan discuss Luke 24 and how we can live wit...

Send us Fan Mail We never know when we'll get a flat tire on our car.  So we need to be prepared so that we're ready just in case we encounter trouble. Jason and Ryan will discuss 2 Timothy 4:1-5 so that we can be ready to share God's Good News with someone who needs to know Jesus, whether it is a convenient time or an inconvenient time. SO...How can we be ready to share our story o...

Send us Fan Mail How can we begin to take steps to more naturally and relationally share Jesus with people we know?   That's a great question to ask and Jason and Ryan talk about how this can happen in our lives by discussing John 1: 29-51 and see how Jesus became a natural and relational sharing opportunity for the first disciples. It's refreshing to know that the Holy Spirit empowers u...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus' model of evangelism is RELATIONAL.  In other words, Jesus isn't COLD when reaching out to people in need to believe in the Messiah.  Evangelism requires some degree of warmth and CONNECTION. Jesus models this perfectly for us in John 4 with the woman at the well in Sychar, Samaria.  Joel and Ryan will break John 4 down and discuss how this impacts US today as we r...

Send us Fan Mail How in the world can the reality of Hell help us? Because KNOWING the reality of Hell and sharing the Gospel of Jesus can allow God's Spirit to bring many to trust in Christ and be saved from Hell. Joel and Ryan discuss why THE WHY of Hell's reality should impact our lives today.   We will want to share the Good News about Jesus because we care for and love people too mu...

Send us Fan Mail How can we keep EVANGELISM in front of us and how can we keep something as important as EVANGELISM from slipping into the rear view mirror? Joel and Ryan discuss this question in this episode of ON OUR WAY HOME and as you watch and listen, you may discover that keeping EVANGELISM in front of our faces is easier than you may think. Romans 10:1-11 really do help us to rely on God to...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we need to SEE something in order to UNDERSTAND. How can we understand what FAITH is, how to get it, how to keep it, and how to grow in FAITH? Dwight and Ryan will discuss Romans 4 today and talk about the life of Abraham who believed what God said to Him and trusted that God could give him descendants as many as the stars even though he was 99 years old and his wife was...

Send us Fan Mail Romans 3 is one of the best chapters in the Bible.  It wraps up so many GREAT WORDS describing our Salvation through faith in Jesus in ONE PLACE. So how can we come to understand God's incredible salvation which is really BEYOND our ability to understand?  And how should we live in response to this GREAT SALVATION given to us through faith in Christ? Watch and Listen as Mauri...

Send us Fan Mail We all mess up in many ways.  We just don't like to admit our mess ups. But could truly seeing our mess ups lead us to a better place that is totally for our GOOD? In Romans 3:9-20 Paul lays out that all people everywhere and throughout time all have the same troubles:  Our mouths that say terrible things, our eyes that look at the wrong things and lead us and our feet into m...

Send us Fan Mail It's hard to hear the truth sometimes.  But the truth is always our friend. As Paul writes in Romans 3: 1-8, God has given to us His very WORDS. God's WORDS can get in our face, "God is TRUE and everyone is a liar!" So how can we develop a HUMBLE POSTURE to receive God's truth and keep receiving God's truth so that we can live a life that's pleas...