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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Every now and then, people ask us what it means to be a “Reformed Baptist”. They want to understand why we use that adjective, “reformed”, when describing what kind of church we are. That is a very good and important question. Traditionally, in protestant churches, Reformed means that a church holds to the particular doctrines…
When I was a child, my family attended church together. I fondly remember sitting in the pew with my mother and father, my sister and my grandmother, actively engaged in church. Everyone who attended our church was present during the worship service. Somewhere along the way, that changed. Today, a very large number of evangelical…
Cornerstone Christian Fellowship is a confessional church, meaning we hold to a particular confession of faith as our basic summary of beliefs. But what is a confession of faith and why is it important? A confession of faith is a document that summarizes a church’s beliefs about the Christian faith. It is easy for a…
A lost concept in many Christian churches is that fathers are to be the spiritual head of their homes. This is one of the consequences of the greater loss of traditional gender roles. Our society works overtime to marginalize the idea of clear gender roles beginning with our children. With every successive generation, the erosion…