Cornerstone Atl Weekly Sermons

Our attention to others shows our attitude towards their Creator.

It's only a high view of God that yields a right view of man.

As we continue our series in Romans 10 we're reminded that salvation is something that is never out of reach.

When it comes to religion, people often tend to think that sincere intentions are the only thing that matters. Our attempts to please God, if misdirected, could actually keep us from God Himself. As we look at Romans 10, we'll see that chasing righteousness on our own only ensures that we'll never find it. However, Jesus offers us a better solution and a better hope.

When we truly see as God sees, then we'll feel as God feels. As we finish our series in the book of Jonah, we see how God patiently provides his perspective to us--reminding us that He wants more than compliance from us, He desires to produce compassion in us.

The hope of Christ's return in the future, gives us great energy to be all about His work in the present.

All of us have received good advice in the past about ways that we can prevent trouble in our lives. The bad news is, when we fail to take that advice and find ourselves in present trouble we can often feel helpless and hopeless. What do you do when you've it rock bottom and you have no one to blame but yourself? If we look at the life of Jonah we see that even weak prayers offered to a willing Savior can actually accomplish something significant.

Some problems in life can be solved simply by ignoring them, they tend to just go away. Other problems simply get worse. When we find ourselves having problems with the way that God wants to run our lives, that's not a problem that we can just ignore. God won't be ignored and is bent on confronting us. Quite frankly, that's the best news that we could ever imagine. God shows the depth of His compassion by chasing people who don't deserve an ounce of it.

The fact that God speaks to us is a truth that has become all to familiar. This familiarity has caused that great truth to lose its force. We can get so preoccupied with a desire to hear from God that we forget that the most important thing isn't hearing from Him, but heeding HIs words. As we start a new series in the book of Jonah, we take some time to understand that how we treat God's word, reveals what it is that we really think of Him. Do we think He's a friend or foe?

The church is under attack, but not how you might think. When we think of the most dangerous pitfalls to the health of the church we usually think of external forces. However, there's an internal danger that threatens the effectiveness of every church. Simple neglect. Left unchecked it can cause major disunity. We look at Acts 6 to see how the church dealt with it and what our role is in maintaining unity.

In the world that we live in Christianity is often critiqued. Because of many bad examples, people tend to think of hypocrisy when talking about the church or the Christian faith. However, as we look at the life of Jesus we see that Christians should be marked first and foremost by a humble posture of service. Pastor Trip preaches from Philippians 2 and encourages us, based on Christ's example, to let go, get down, and to lift Jesus up.

What does God want from me? It's a question that shapes everything about our lives, but we'll never get to a meaningful answer if we start with trying to find out what actions God wants. Before we can give God what He wants, we have to know who God is. Service doesn't start with what you do, but who you worship.

There is a god-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man, and only God can fill it. The world that we live in all addresses this gap and attempts to fill it with things that fall very short of providing us with contentment. Our guest preacher William "Duce" Branch helps us see how God satisfies us completely in Christ.

Pastor Trip preaches on the importance of words in the life of the Christian. We're reminded that if we want to see the state of our hearts, the best way for us to do that is to look carefully at our words.

Pastor Trip preaches on the importance of music in the life of the Christian. When it comes to engaging with God, to ignore music is to accept unfaithfulness.

Pastor Trip preaches about what work should look like in the everyday lives of God people. The most important thing about our work isn't the particular type of work that we do, but our posture towards the work that we do.

Based on our past experiences with faith, frustrating times and failure, all of us have to come form certain conclusions about life. It's easy to come to expect certain things from the lives that we live. But if Jesus really did raise from the dead, then nothing about life as we knew it has to stay the same. We finish our Mark series by looking at how the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus changes life as we know it.

Jesus' words in Mark 13 to his disciples offer a great reminder for those of us that find ourselves either distracted by the impressive things of this life, or distressed by the depressing things we experience. We are best equipped to live in the here and now, not by looking to these things, but by looking forward. Jesus helps us see that we shouldn't put our trust in what's temporary, nor should we tremble in the face of trouble; rather, we should turn our eyes to Jesus and stay tuned for His return.

Being right about God isn't the same thing as being right with God. In Mark 12, Jesus helps someone who agrees with Him understand that He's looking for more than just right actions.

What good does your spiritual resume do when you stand before God? The bad news is that whatever you have falls short. The good news is, that Jesus can give you His.