From the Desk of the Elders

On these pages you’ll find some excerpts and extended thoughts on various topics such as church life, theology, biblical living, and much more.

After Action Review

At Cornerstone, we are fortunate to have an extended fellowship time after the worship service on Sunday afternoons. It is a great time to get to know new people who attend our church as well as strengthen relationships of long-standing friends. In addition to being a time of fellowship, this time after the worship service…

Silence Is Golden, Unless…

One of my favorite memes which went around my corner of the internet recently goes like this: Silence is golden…. unless you have a toddler. In that case, silence is very, very suspicious. Any parent of a typical toddler knows the truth in this bit of humor. If there’s a toddler awake somewhere in your…

Common Grace, Special Grace and Blind Squirrels

January 6, 2014
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[esvignore]“For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust”. – Matthew 5:45b[/esvignore] When Jesus taught us to love our enemies, one of the justifications He gave to us for doing so was that the Father is the caretaker of even the…

Membership at Cornerstone

December 10, 2013
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Recently, we at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship (CCF) added a number of families to our church membership and enjoyed formally receiving them into the congregation. Membership is a topic that is rarely addressed sufficiently in the churches today; its even seen as unnecessary in some congregations. But we believe the Bible teaches us that church membership…

The Good Grace of Discipline – An Immensely Important Lesson from Jonah

December 2, 2013
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Have you ever seen a child run away from his parent’s discipline? When I was a little kid growing up in the 1970s, just about everyone employed the old fashioned whoopin’. Kids could expect the belt, a paddle or a switch to lay some corrective exclamations upon their backside when an offense was bad enough.…

Worship of God Conference Reports

From October 31 through November 2, Pastor Head represented CCF at the Worship of God Conference sponsored by the National Center for Family-Integrated Churches. He produced the following video reports for our church during his time there. Post by Cornerstone Christian Fellowship of Houston. Post by Cornerstone Christian Fellowship of Houston. Post by Cornerstone Christian…

How to Avoid Making a Shipwreck of Your Faith

Early in the foggy, dark morning of February 6, 1865, Captain Thomas Leach brought the sleek and fast Confederate blockade runner Acadia, a 738 ton side wheel steamer, tight along the Texas shore. He had successfully avoided detection by the picket ships of the U.S. Naval blockade and was only hours from completing a successful…

The Nature of True Repentance – Thomas Watson’s Six Ingredients

Puritan Thomas Watson (1620-1686) teaches us the nature of true repentance in his excellent book, The Doctrine of Repentance. This little book is a wealth of practical applied faith and is worth reading more than once. It is written in typical Puritan style with points made as numbered outlines. Despite the Puritan’s reputation for employing…

The Myth of Neutrality and Your Bible

In our post-Christian culture, fairness, equality, tolerance and the inalienable right not to be offended are the chief marks of our day. That is, unless you are a Christian. There is a double standard regarding free speech, tolerance and general equity toward others. As Christians, we receive the hatred of the world and are not…

Does Man Have Free Will? The Doctrine of Total Depravity

There is a debate that runs among some Christian circles about the concept of free will. This debate is one part of the disagreement between people who are Calvinistic in their view of God and salvation, and those who are not. The Calvinist believes in a doctrine called “total depravity”, which teaches that men are…