When we began as a church, we decided that we would adopt the 1689 London Baptist Confession as the best summary of our core beliefs. In line with that, we have spent a significant amount of time studying the confession as a church in our special meetings on the first Friday of each month. About…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
As taught in the scriptures, every believer should confess his or her sins, but what does it mean when a church says that it is “confessional”? How can a church which promotes the sufficiency of scripture also be confessional? Listen as Pastor Head explains the important, yet supporting role the 1689 London Baptist Confession plays…