On Our Way Home

Send us Fan Mail You don't have to live the life of faith on your own.  You don't need to fight the good fight of the faith on a solo mission.  That isn't God's best for us.  Actively Pursuing Jesus with God's Family in the Church is! Everything changes when love enters the equation and that is exactly what Jonathan and Ryan will be talking about in today's podcast.  ...

Send us Fan Mail How consistently and actively would you say you are in responding to God's Word preached and taught?  God's Word is meant to be so much more than just HEAD KNOWLEDGE. We desperately need God's Word to live a life that reflects Jesus and impacts the relationships we have in our lives. God's Word is meant to transform our lives.  When we share God's Word wit...

Send us Fan Mail What we do together SHAPES US!  When we're an active part of a group gathering we can become better than we were before, or worse, depending on the type of people we are allowing to influence us. In today's podcast, Mark and Ryan talk about what can happen when we invest in time worshipping together as a church and how God can shape us to be more like Christ as we regula...

Send us Fan Mail What is conversion?  From WHAT to WHAT?  And is CONVERSION really needed?  YES! What we really need most in our lives is CONVERSION through faith from deep in our heart.  This is what we need and what Joel and Ryan discuss today on On Our Way Home. If the Holy Spirit doesn't give you NEW LIFE through CONVERSION, though REPENTANCE from our sins and FAITH in JESUS CHRIST, there...

Send us Fan Mail What is a church?  Is church just an extra add on to our lives or is church essential for life? Is it a CLUB?  Is it a place to be ENTERTAINED? As we rediscover church this year it's important for us to know why church is essential based on what the Scriptures say and what the church IS. As Dwight, Jason, and Ryan discuss this chapter today, we will discover how the preaching...

Send us Fan Mail It's easy to give way to fear.  And our culture today is being heavily influenced and affected by fear.  But the Church of Jesus lives by faith in Jesus. It's easy to drift away from ACTIVE MUTUAL PARTICIPATION in the body life of the Church due to individualism or consumerism. Anna, Garrick, and Ryan talk about persecution, fear, faith, the essential need of believers t...

Send us Fan Mail A great way to start 2022 is by REPENTING.   Believe it because that's what Psalm 120 is all about. Repenting puts you in relationship with Jesus and with other brothers and sisters who can help you as you walk with Jesus. Repenting isn't just feeling bad about your choices.  It isn't about earning our way.  It's about getting in relationship with God and stayi...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus promised His followers that when He left to return to His Father in Heaven that they would do greater works than the ones He had done. But what exactly are those greater works?  Could it be that loving someone practically and sacrificially who is very different than you is one of those greater works? What if sharing your story of coming to know Jesus or living your life WITH...

Send us Fan Mail How would you describe your relationship with God at this moment?   Obedience is an important part of that relationship, but God is more interested in our hearts and minds than in merely external obedience. If God has OUR HEARTS, He will naturally have our external obedience as well. A more mature faith is what each of us wants.  Obedience is a key part, but discovering how our re...

Send us Fan Mail Is love something you have to do or is love something that you just DO? Sometimes we can choose a comfortable life over a life lived on mission with Jesus.   What would cause us to make that choice?  How can we grow in consistently choosing a life lived on mission, which is really a life lived loving God and loving people He brings into our paths? Listen to Roy and Joel discuss li...

Send us Fan Mail Actively participating in Our Mission gives us great meaning in life.  But what is our mission? Our mission is to MAKE DISCIPLES in all the world of EVERY PEOPLE and of EVERY NATION.  This is why Jesus came and it's what He's sending us to do together. It takes a team to build a bridge.  When we work together we can help each other overcome our tendencies to be TOO BUSY,...

Send us Fan Mail Our new VISION statement isn't meant to be a catchy slogan that fits on a T-SHIRT, because it definitely WON'T!  It's too long. But the point of our VISION STATEMENT is to give us a redefined focus for the next three to five years that will help us better achieve our MISSION to MAKE DISCIPLES. In today's podcast, Joel and Ryan discuss how Reaching, Maturing, an...

Send us Fan Mail Most of our relationships need a REFOCUS from time to time.  It's easy to drift.  It's easy to lose passion.  It's easy to be discouraged. SO...allow this podcast with Joel and Ryan to be the nice little "kick in the pants" that we're praying this will be...so that we'll ALL reignite a passionate relationship with Jesus. How is your prayer life w...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus really loves you!  He wants a REAL relationship with us.  But what will it take to persuade us to become an ALL IN active part of a local church? For someone who is a part of Cornerstone, we define ALL IN as consistently connecting with God through worship on our Sunday Morning Gathering, becoming an active part of a smaller group of people in a Life Group, and finding a pla...

Send us Fan Mail Living on Mission for Jesus is not living on vacation.  We need to be reminded to encourage one another to LOVE and GOOD DEEDS for Jesus.  It's easy to drift.  It's easy to be selfish. In this replaying of our podcast discussion from Chapter 7 of Come and See, Mark and Ryan discuss how using the gifts that God has given to EACH ONE of us is so important as we live on Jes...

Send us Fan Mail As we are unified in worshipping God, great things can happen with us as a body and in our community. In part two of this discussion on Cornerstone's worship distinctives, Joel and Ryan talk about how being Engaged, Focused, Blended, and Unified will greatly impact us positively for Christ. We must not allow our preferences to overshadow our love for one another and Jesus Chr...

Send us Fan Mail Worship is our whole life in response to God's WORK to SAVE US from our sin.  Worship is powerful.  Being unified in our worship is ESSENTIAL! This is probably the reason that the enemy targets our worship to be a place of disunity rather than a UNIFIED powerful place to PRAISE JESUS together. As a local church, Cornerstone's Elders have developed our mission and vision,...

Send us Fan Mail What is your ONE THING in life?  Would you say that your one thing was BLESSING GOD? On today's podcast, Joel, Jason, and Ryan talk about how living a life of gratitude is needed and how we can remember to engage in being grateful to Jesus for everything He has done, keeps doing, and will do for us. We look to many things in life to give us meaning and significance, but they...

Send us Fan Mail We are all CALLED to live in community with other followers of Jesus.  But sometimes we can see people as only a problem to be solved or a widget in a big machine. But each person is someone whom God created and for whom Christ died.  And we can't make disciples of Christ UNLESS we're living in COMMUNITY with other followers.  That's what God's Word says in Heb...

Send us Fan Mail Obedience is essential to stay on the road home to our Father.  Obedience isn't legalism.  And we shouldn't try to use our obedience just to get what we want.  Obedience is all about having and maintaining a growing relationship with God. The better our relationship with God, the better our obedience will be.  So, what is your relationship with God like right now and how...

Send us Fan Mail We all need pruning to keep from getting OUT OF CONTROL in our lives. Psalm 131 (all about HUMILITY) will help us to KEEP HUMBLING ourselves before God so that He can LIFT US UP. We all need Humility in consistent doses for our journey home as we walk with Jesus. Humility will keep us from trying to control people our kids, our co-workers, and our family. Humility will keep us fro...

Send us Fan Mail We all experience suffering during our life .  We cannot escape suffering.  It is real and not an illusion that we can ignore or suppress.  But how do we deal with the suffering?  And how can we find HOPE? What does Psalm 130 say about what we should do on our journey home when the bottom falls out of our life? In  our podcast today, Larry and Ryan talk about how the writer of Psa...

Send us Fan Mail The Race of our life with Jesus Christ is long and hard.  But Christians, true followers of Jesus, are TOUGH. So how can we keep running the race, stay in the race, not quit, stop, or give up? Maurie and Ryan talk about Psalm 129 today and how GOD is sticking with us so WE CAN keep sticking with Him.   We all face discouragement in our walk with Jesus.  We all face difficulties an...

Send us Fan Mail Where can we find HAPPINESS?  Happiness isn't as elusive as we might think. On today's podcast, Bethany and Ryan talk about where we can find true happiness.  Happiness isn't found by being focused on yourself, having a perfect life, or not having any or many problems. God's WAYS and His PRESENCE are two places where we can find happiness that lasts. Curious ab...

Send us Fan Mail Work isn't meant to be a four letter word.  But how can we keep a Godward focus as we go about our work?  Sometimes this is a struggle. In the podcast today, Jason and Ryan talk about how we weren't made to work for the sake of working.  We were made to work for God and to serve others.  Read Psalm 127, read chapter 9 in A Long Obedience in the Same Direction , and liste...