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This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... We find ourselves facing pressures and differing kinds of threats in our age, and these pressures come from numerous directions. There are pressures and threats from the culture around us, from the church nearby, and from our own soul. These pressures unearth the temptation to 1) retreat to safety, avoiding the threat, or 2) run toward...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... In this week's passage, we encounter another strong warning. Under divine inspiration, the author of Hebrews urges his audience to remain in the simplicity and singularity of faith in Jesus for the preserving of their souls. As we have seen throughout, there was at that time, and still is today, a very natural and enticing temptation t...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... This week we continue our study of Hebrews considering the "once for all" sacrifice of Jesus. Unlike the Old Testament animal sacrifices which had to be offered over and over, and which could not fully take care of our sin problem, Jesus' offering happened only one time and addressed our sin problem completely. His provision was infini...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... There is an experiential difference between the general presence of God, the special, spiritual presence of God, and the full, face-to-face glory of God's physical presence. Through the ages, God has been present among all of mankind, for He is omnipresent (or everywhere present). The whole world is full of His glory (Isaiah 6:3). In v...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Toward the end of this week's passage, there is an ominous statement: "it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). As the author implores his audience to stick with simplicity and singularity of faith in Jesus, he reminds them of the truth that there is a final analysis coming, where all of us wil...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... As we reminisce on our lives, we tend to focus nostalgically on all the good aspects of our experiences, sometimes forgetting the difficulties or limitations that we have known. The author of Hebrews, having established the importance of a new kind of priest whose ministry is based upon a new kind of covenant or law, ensures that we re...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Continuing his appeal to his readers to resist the temptation to return to the Old Covenant, with its inferior priests, the author of Hebrews expounds further upon Jesus' Great High Priesthood. Not only is Jesus alone a royal priest, and an immortal priest, and a sinless priest, He alone is the sinless sacrifice, and He alone brings Hi...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Most of us like movies that have a good conclusion. We like it when the right people win, the evil people lose, and when the guy and the girl end up together. We like it when everyone is healed and happy and successful. If you knew the ending before the story unfolded, some of the drama would be removed and the effect minimized. In thi...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Under the pressure of mounting persecution, the Hebrew Christians were being tempted to return to the Old Covenant of Judaism for a sense of escape, safety, and security. Part of that temptation was to consider the Levitical priesthood to be still of value in offering them human mediators and purifiers. From these esteemed and dignifie...

This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Our lives are filled with so many twists and turns. So much is out of our control, yet we keep trying to find ways to work our plan, to keep our timelines and goals on track, and to feel a sense of progression. When our plans are moving in accordance with our goals, we feel accomplishment. When we feel off course, we struggle and striv...