Sunday Sermons
At Cornerstone, the sermons are primarily expository in nature. We spend most of our time stepping through a section or book of the Bible verse by verse, section by section, and occasionally we will preach on a theme. The elders strive to make each sermon a Christ centered, church building, Gospel proclaiming, truth driven, biblically grounded, proclamation for the purpose of God glorifying transformation.
Our text for this Sunday is [esvignore]Ephesians 4:17-24[/esvignore]. We look at the contrast between walking in the new life and walking in the futility of the old life. In this sermon we learn what the darkened mind looks like and how Christians can be deceived into thinking the old, dead self is attractive. This sermon sets us up for part two in…
Our sermon, from [esvignore]Ephesians 4:11-16[/esvignore] examines the work and ministry of God’s gifts to His people for the purposes of equipping the church. Here we find the idea of maturity and growth by means of speaking the truth in love. It is vital that all the individual members of the church exercise their gifts so that the church will be an army…
Our sermon from [esvignore]Ephesians 4:1-7[/esvignore] speaks of unity of the new society of Christ. We learn some of the marks of unity and also why the church doesn’t seem so unified with all of our denominations and apparent fractures. We also learn that unity at the expense of truth is no unity at all. Ephesians 4:1-7
Here is look at Paul’s prayer for the strengthening of the [esvignore]Ephesians[/esvignore] found in [esvignore]chapter 3[/esvignore], [esvignore]verses 14-21[/esvignore]. Up to this point, we’ve been learning some lofty and beneficial doctrine with our minds focused on great truths. In this prayer, Paul yearns for the Ephesians to also experience the love of Christ in fullness, because…
In this sermon we examine [esvignore]Ephesians 2:11-22[/esvignore]. Our chief concern is the breaking down of hostile divisions between the Jew and Gentile, and the new people resulting from the peace that Jesus Christ has brought to us – that new people is the Church. Up to this point, we have been concerned with the work of Christ on the personal level; here,…
Memory is a powerful thing capable of changing our attitude and outlook. In this sermon from [esvignore]Ephesians 2:11-12[/esvignore], the chief commands Paul leaves us with are “remember, and remember.” How fitting that the last sermon on the year is a call to remember our former hopelessness in light of the glorious gospel we now possess! Ephesians 2:11-12 Our public reading was [esvignore]Matt…
This sermon investigates [esvignore]Ephesians 2:8-10[/esvignore] where we learn about the gift grace. Our three sermon points are 1.) Free grace is a gift; 2.) we are HIS workmanship, not our own; and 3.) good works display His glory. Come learn with us how grace ought to inform our living. Ephesians 2:8-10
This Sunday we dig into the other side of “But God…” in [esvignore]Ephesians 2:4-7[/esvignore]. We will be refreshed knowing that God has moved on our behalf, and we’ll find out what His motives were. This message is the good news that comes after reading [esvignore]Romans 6:1-3[/esvignore], where our true nature is on display in all its ugliness. Though we were sinners and…
We receive a dose of reality from Paul in [esvignore]Ephesians 2:1-4a[/esvignore]. Like any good book has well-developed characters, so the Bible presents man in all his ugliness. We are, apart from Jesus Christ, very dead, really condemned and deeply enslaved. That means something very, very real. Once we understand our Christ-less position, our salvation and life in Christ will surely take on…
We look once again at the prayer of Paul for the Ephesians and learn that the power of God is the greatest knowledge we can have to see us through this life into glory. [esvignore]Ephesians 1:15-23[/esvignore] culminates in many expressive words about this great power. We learn three aspects of God’s mighty power – His resurrection power, his coronation power and his…