Evian Roller Babies US
Sure. You've seen it, but watch it again, just because today is Friday.…
Writing from 2009
What you don't See
What you don't see is Tania Heier taking the shoes off of her son Pablito and giving them to a boy in Nicaragua. I am so proud of our team in Teco and all the hard work that they d…
Steve Harvey Introduces Jesus
Steve Harvey, secular comedian, in front of a secular audience. He poses the question "How would you introduce God?" His response is amazing. Takes 3 minutes to watch. Well worth i…
Kideos
Josh Harris has a great link over at his blog for a new "filtered" version of Youtube for kids. My kids 11 & 8 love to get online and see all the funny videos, but it is a full tim…
You can't provoke me!
It seems that church people who don't get involved fall into three categories... the uninformed, the uninspired, and the unprovokable. Now, my spell checker is telling me that ther…
What you don't know...
This week, between the TV camera and the repetition of a 24 hour news media, we have been privy to some amazing feats of immaturity. Mark Twain once wrote " It's not what you don't…
Rifqa Bary's Testimony Before the summer of 2009
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Tithe Rap
Thanks to Cornerstone founding member Gabe Hernandez for sending me this link. I thought it appropriate after last weekend's message on Stewardship. Enjoy!…
Five Dangerous Faults
Yesterday I started reading Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" which is from the 6th century BC. I have wanted to read it for some time, but it is not my typical genre. I am half way throu…
Prime Timer's Pot Luck and Bean Bag Baseball
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Small Groups Begin June 6
We are so excited to announce the new small group line up for our summer session. For the first time there are multiple topics on multiple days. Pastor Ward has been working for mo…
What's Your Big Problem?
Everyone has problems, in fact everyone has a list of problems, and the point of a job, the point of leadership is to solve problems. In churches there are all kinds of problems, t…
Rise - Easter Services
Thanks: First, I want to thank God for His abundant grace as we made the move over to the middle school. Of all the things that could have gone wrong, only minor hiccupps occured. …
Prayer Walk Tonight
Tonight we will have a very special prayer walk at church as we prepare our hearts and minds for this coming Easter Sunday. We will be praying at each location where our guests and…
Easter Offering for San Lorenzo
On February third I got in the back of an Isuzu pickup truck and drove from the Nicaraguan town of Tecolostote to the neighboring town of San Lorenzo. The Hope Center in Teco was a…
Methods of Personal Evangelism
I mentioned in the service that I would post some how to methods for leading a person to faith in Christ. ABC’s / Romans Road a. Admit Romans 3:23 ( ESV ) 23 for all have sinned an…
Anticipating Easter
Okay here's the story.... We were supposed to move to the larger space on January 22nd, but due to some complications with getting the CO, Community of Faith is still in the middle…
Discovery Launch 3,15,09
here is the launch via my cell phone. we had a great time playing catch with the football, and eating overpriced festival food. Unfortunately, I did not have a very good exit strat…
Random thoughts for Friday
1. Keep praying for Chuck Stephens, he had abdominal reconstruction surgery yesterday and is in ICU recovering. They expect him to be in thehospital for 5 days to a week. 2. Last S…
Bible Reading Program
Many of you have expressed a desire to continue your Bible reading program. You can find the chart that I took the readings from HERE. I am so excited that we read through the Bibl…
Sunday March 1st Decisions
This weekend at Cornerstone, we made decisions to serve God with all our heart in the day to day menial tasks. below are some of the decisions that were publicized. I hope that you…
Tim Hawkins - A Homeschool Family
This goes out to all my homies with a big "home school high five!"…
Come, Worship with Us!
This week I changed my sermon topic in our Kaleo series to talk about the need for daily worship in our lives. I feel that the need that we all have is to have daily, meaningful ti…
Best Man Fail
tomorrow I will preside over two weddings.... one of them at the beach. So here's to you Jeff, Angie, Doug and Adel.... May your best man truly be the best.…
Hope Center Tecolostote
Video presentation of our team's week in Teco.…
Let's Get Ready to Ramble!!!!
No offense to Boxing Announcer Michael Buffer but there is so much going on that this blog is going to be a bit of a ramble. keep up if you can.... 1. God is doing some amazing thi…
Sarcastics Anonymous
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T-Minus 18 Days to Nicaragua
2009 is off to a hot start, and it is hard to believe that our team will be leaving for Nicaragua in just 18 days. We will be working with World Hope to construct some pavilions to…
Weekend Reflections
I believe our set up team rocks, except that Michael Brown parked the trailer crooked. We had a bunch of people come to the Saturday version of the Vision Meeting The band rocked, …
Big Vision
This Sunday we will be sharing a BIG vision that God has laid on our hearts for 2009. I am so excited to be able to share some things that have been in the works for several months…