Cornerstone Family,In case you haven’t heard already, Emily tested positive for COVID-19. According to the Jasper County Health Department, I’m supposed to be under quarantine until the 26th. That all said, it’s looking like we'll proceed with the following plans this Sunday:Sunday School – CanceledMain Service @ 10:45Home Fellowship Group – Canceled Next week everything will resume as normal (Sun...  Read More

This week's bulletin is online here. It's clear that there is freedom in the gospel. Not only is the Christian free of any obligation to obey a specific code of commands in order to be accepted by God, but, through the Spirit, there's even a kind of freedom to participate in some practices that would have been forbidden in the Old Testament. The question is: how is this freedom to be used?  Ryan w...  Read More

This week's bulletin is online here. It's clear that there is freedom in the gospel. Not only is the Christian free of any obligation to obey a specific code of commands in order to be accepted by God, but, through the Spirit, there's even a kind of freedom to participate in some practices that would have been forbidden in the Old Testament. The question is: how is this freedom to be used?  Ryan w...  Read More

This week's bulletin is online here. An identity crisis occurs when some new event or set of facts causes a person to re-evaluate their place and role in the world. In this way, the gospel should produce an identity crisis in the Christian. But what does identity crisis produce? How does the gospel transform the way we relate to others - and, most specifically, to the church? Ryan will explain thi...  Read More

This week's bulletin is online here. Is it possible for a genealogy to be exciting or even useful for the Christian life? Ryan will explain this Sunday how Matthew teaches us an important lesson about grace through the genealogy provided in Matthew 1:1-17.In Sunday school, we will continue our survey of the Old Testament with a lesson entitled "Old Testament Sacrificial System."...  Read More

This week's bulletin is online here. It's clear that there is freedom in the gospel. Not only is the Christian free of any obligation to obey a specific code of commands in order to be accepted by God, but, through the Spirit, there's even a kind of freedom to participate in some practices that would have been forbidden in the Old Testament. The question is: how is this freedom to be used?  Ryan w...  Read More

This week's bulletin is online here. It's clear that there is freedom in the gospel. Not only is the Christian free of any obligation to obey a specific code of commands in order to be accepted by God, but, through the Spirit, there's even a kind of freedom to participate in some practices that would have been forbidden in the Old Testament. The question is: how is this freedom to be used?  Ryan w...  Read More

This week's bulletin is online here. What does the Christian truly need more than anything else? In Matthew 14:13-36 Jesus takes His disciples to a desolate region to enjoy a much needed rest, but when they arrive they are immediately greeted by a large crowd looking for Jesus. Jesus greets the crowd, and in the miracles that follow He teaches His disciples about their greatest need. Ryan will exp...  Read More

This week's bulletin is online here. Like it or not, we're all under some form of authority, and one such authority is the government. It can be a source of anxiety for the Christian to know how to respond to this authority - and most especially when our leaders are foolish or even disobedient. What counsel does the Scripture provide for us in this scenario? How are we to think about and interact ...  Read More

Most of our brother Christians showed unbounded love and loyalty, never sparing themselves and thinking only of one another.  Heedless of danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need and ministering to them in Christ, and with them departed this life serenely happy; for they were infected by others with the disease, drawing on themselves the sickness of their neighbors and c...  Read More

42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.  43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.  44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common.  45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need....  Read More

In the midst of the turmoil that is currently taking place in our society, I thought I would take a moment to share a reminder with you from the book of Ecclesiastes. As the wise King Solomon ponders the meaning of all his effort and striving, he remarks:"2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.  3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the su...  Read More