Posts by Cornerstone Staff (Page 25)
Thanksgiving Communion
This past Thursday we gathered with friends and family to share a Thanksgiving meal and give thanks for the ways the Lord has blessed us. I found that this year I was far less intentional about giving thanks than I should have been. I gave thanks to the Lord for a few things in my mind but I got so wrapped up in family time that I didn’t stop and thank the Lord as I would have liked. I’m assuming…
Gospel-Centered Advent Reading Christmas Eve: The Christ Candle
Since the moment Adam took a bite out of the forbidden fruit we’ve all been waiting for a Savior to come and put things right again (Gen 3:15). We waited during the time of Noah and the flood. We waited during the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We waited during the years of captivity in Egypt and the years of spiritual rebellion in Israel. We waited under the good but broken King David and the bad kings who followed.…
Gospel-Centered Advent Reading Week 4: The Love Candle
The big story of the Bible is all about the one true God who chooses to love unloveable people. After Moses brought the people of Israel safely out of slavery in Egypt they came to a mountain called Sinai where God made a special covenant promise to love and care for them. Yet even as God was making this promise they made a golden calf to love and worship. God would have destroyed the people in that moment if Moses…
Winter 2020 Christian Education Classes
Check out our Christian Education offerings this winter. Starts January 5th 2020 from 9:00 till 10:00am Sunday mornings at Cornerstone (assuming no snow delay).
Gospel-Centered Advent Reading Week 3: The Joy Candle
Can you imagine the joy Adam and Eve must have felt to walk with God in the garden of Eden? They knew and experienced their Creator face to face. We can also imagine the despair they experienced when they were cast out of Eden for sinning against God. Yet in his mercy God began to restore the joy of knowing and experiencing him through a man he named Abraham and his descendants Israel. God often leads people into trial so…
Gospel-Centered Advent Reading Week 2: The Peace Candle
In the beginning we had peace with God and each other. When we chose our way instead of God’s way we traded our peace for conflict and war. Humankind ruled with an iron fist and so God wiped all people but Noah and his family off the face of the earth with a flood. As the waters dried Noah sent a dove from the ark to search for dry land. It returned with a freshly plucked olive leaf. The dove…
Gospel-Centered Advent Reading Week 1: The Hope Candle
Creation began with hope. In the first verses of the Bible God called hope out of the chaotic darkness. Genesis 1:2-3 (NIV) Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. At the beginning there was so much hope. Into this hope-filled world God brought the first man and woman, Adam and Eve.…
Children Dedication Example
This last Sunday I had the privilege of dedicating one the children of our families here at Cornerstone Congregational Church. I used Before the Lord, Before the Church: “How-To” Plan a Child Dedication to help me plan the explanation and commitments. With this family’s permission I’m sharing the slides I shared with the congregation that day. You can also watch how I did it in the above video. You can find a writeup of another baby dedication here. Please use thoughtfully.…
New Beginnings – Jennie Pelletier’s WCAT Cancer Story
Listen to Jennie Pelletier share her testimony of God’s faithfulness in the midst of cancer. Pastor Jonathan also shares a few words at the end. You can hear Jennie’s coming to Christ story here and her written story of her cancer journey here. Thank you Jennie for sharing and Betsy Carolina for having us on New Beginnings!
The Proverbs 31 Woman – The Perfect Wife
Have you ever wanted to be so good something that you tried to read everything that was written about it so that you could learn as much as possible? That was me the year that I got married to my husband Joe. I wanted so badly to be a good wife, the best wife I could ever possibly be, that I read every book I could find. I was hoping to find a to do list that said do these…
Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 7: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps 118:24) Let us wrap up our series of prayer with an exaltatation to the King with Ps 145. Please keep praying continually for the Holy Spirit to breath the new life of Christ in us and to spiritually revive Westford and our region. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your…
Prayer for Trunk or Treat – Day 6: but deliver us from evil
Are you counting down to the Trunk-or-Treat? One more day! Thank you for your faithfulness in prayers. Jesus said if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, we can move mountains. Nothing is impossible with God. (Matt 17:20) Let’s contiue to pray in faith. but deliver us from evil: “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the…