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In the United States, there are minimum ages for many things, many important things. The minimum age to drive a car? 16 in most places. The official age of adulthood? 18. The minimum age to drink alcohol? 21. The minimum age to rent a car without extra charges? 25, most of the time.

These ages are set with a basic rationale that some things are significant enough or potentially dangerous enough that we should require people to be a certain age before they are allowed to do them.

It happens sometimes that a person who has been baptized begins to wonder if they should be "re-baptized." Because of the importance of baptism and the meaning of baptism as the sacrament of entrance into the Christian life, the question is an important one. 

First let's be reminded about some basics of baptism. Jesus commanded the church to "baptize" disciples as part of the Great Commission (Matt 28:19–20). A "disciple" is a follower of Christ, one who is a learner of the ways of Christ. We aren't to baptize people who will one day become disciples, but we are to baptize disciples.…

I’ve been around single moms all my life. My own mother is a single mom, and I have friends who are single parents. However, nothing opened my eyes to the life of a single parent like becoming one. In 2011, I was 48 years old and my kids were 13, 11, and 10. In a single hour, my husband died. In that hour, all of the ways he cared for and invested in our family now fell to me. I was suddenly the head of our household. 

Becoming a single mom, I received a lot of help from friends. Still,…

One of our new Cornerstone Fellowship Music songs, written by Joyanna Luciano, Andrew McLeod, Christopher Scott.

Here is one of the new Cornerstone Fellowship Music songs written by Joyanna Luciano, Theo Luciano, and Andrew McLeod.

This past Wednesday, just past noon local time at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Charlie Kirk was killed by an assassin’s bullet. It appears the killer was a 22-year old young man, Tyler Robinson. Kirk was speaking at the time to several thousand college students. He was seated, composed, answering questions put to him by a diverse group of people with opinions that often differed strongly from him. Over the last several years Kirk went from a secular Libertarian to a Christian Conservative. In one of his last posts, he wrote, “Jesus defeated death, so you can live.” I…

This Sunday we begin our series in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5–7. It can rightly be said that Jesus’s Sermon here is the most famous ever preached. Even Mahatma Gandhi said after reading the New Testament, “The New Testament,...especially the Sermon on the Mount, went straight to my heart.”[1] Unfortunately for Gandhi, what he saw was only a profound ethical code and not the authoritative Word of the Living God. We want to hear it as it was meant to be heard. To help us, here are six things we need to know as we prepare…

CrossCon was started in 2013 with the goal of stirring up church-centered missions. Their core values reflect a desire to keep God’s Word and His Church in the center of an all-encompassing view of the great commission. Attendance in 2023 was 5,000, and so they decided to make the conference annual. In 2024, they saw their numbers double to 10,000, and this year we joined 15,000 other students in Kentucky. Louisville was practically overrun by college aged Christians from all over who had come together to direct their focus on God’s mission. Over three days, we sang together, heard sermons, listened to panel interviews, and attended breakout sessions. From small things, like how often we pull out our phones, to big things, like considering long term missions, this experience left our hearts and minds busy.

At our men's meeting, we talked about discipling our children. The topic is vast, of course, and a single message can't cover everything. Yet, two things stood out as things that would have been good to cover. The first is, I should have provided an answer to this question, "Where in the world do I even start?" If spiritual discipleship is a new element to add to your parenting, it can be daunting to know where to begin. One thing that can be especially paralyzing is the idea that you can mess it up and ruin your children. That's…

Missions:Together. It' something you've heard about. It's that thing Benjamin has talked about, and travels to D.C. and New York for. But you're probably still wondering: what exactly is M:T, and why should I care about this event on November 2nd? To help answer that question Mark Knetsch, the pastor of Resurrection Life Church (ResLife) at Apex Middle School and the visionary director for M:T has offered some helpful insight.

"Honestly, I sometimes hesitate to answer what M:T is, because I don’t want to come across like a salesman. As a church planter, I have given a pitch or two,…