Cornerstone Church - Atlanta, GA

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.