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It’s crazy, but it’s true: I have more in common with a 12^th century Greek who was a Christian than with the neighbor on my cul-de-sac who speaks my language, lives in a similar house, is the same age as I am, has the same salary, and who shops at the same stores as I do—but who worships a different God than I do.

In fact, I’m actually connected to that 12^th century Greek I haven’t yet met. We are brothers who will be united for all eternity because of our mutual connection to our Savior Jesus Christ. We are…

Several years ago, Andreas Köstenberger and Justin Taylor worked through the possible date of Jesus’s crucifixion, and they landed on April 3, AD 33. The interesting thing about that date, is that this year Good Friday also falls on April 3^rd. The dates of the first and most important Easter week, then, could very well line up with our Palm Sunday on March 29^th this Sunday, and then progress through this massively consequential week from March 29^th to April 5^th, the Sunday of all Sundays when Jesus was declared to be the Lord and Christ with his resurrection…

Below we have a request of you, but first, some introduction....

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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.