Cornerstone Church of Christ

05/31/2026

Join Matt & Jason for live bible talk beginning at 8 AM ET!

05/30/2026

Sunday we'll watch Paul name the work of a church that looks like Jesus — and it's not what most churches herald loudest. We'll watch him name the aim — and it's not what most of us would write down if we were planning a church. And we'll watch him refuse two equal and opposite lies about the cost — because the labor is real, and the strength is given.

Sunday we'll watch Paul name the work of a church that looks like Jesus — and it's not what most churches herald loudest. We'll watch him name the aim — and it's not what most of us would write down if we were planning a church. And we'll watch him refuse two equal and opposite lies about the co...

05/23/2026

You've heard 1 Corinthians 13 at every wedding you've ever been to. Love is patient. Love is kind. Cross-stitched on a pillow. Cursive on the wall. But right in the middle of all that, Paul changes lanes:

"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child."

What's that doing in the love chapter?

Sunday — Childish Things. What Paul puts down so the room we all sit in can finally exhale. 1 Corinthians 13:11

05/20/2026

05/20/2026

We're just a little under 2 weeks away. Our summer series begins on TUESDAY, June 2. See you then!

05/14/2026

James 1:2–4 says count it all joy when you fall into various trials, because the testing of your faith is producing endurance — and endurance, allowed to finish its work, leaves you mature and complete, lacking nothing. That's almost offensive at first read. Joy, in the middle of the trial I would never have chosen? Yes. Not because the pain is joyful, but because the project God is working through the pain is.
https://cornerstone-coc.com/blog/2026/05/14/where-maturity-gets-made-a-sunday-worth-staying-for

05/12/2026

Our class for new Christians, My First Year in Christ, continued tonight with 10 students present. We are 4 weeks in! If you’re looking for a great class on getting a good spiritual foundation under your feet, this is for you! We meet every Monday at 7 in the Lecture Hall.

Each class begins with a 12 minute video then we open it up for discussion. We’d love to have you!

05/08/2026

This Sunday we'll sit with one of the most quietly shocking paragraphs in the New Testament — Philippians 3:12–15. Paul has just spent ten verses describing what it cost him to follow Christ and what he's still chasing after. And then, in verse 12, he pulls the brake on his own self-assessment: *"Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect…"* This is the apostle Paul. Decades into ministry. Writing from a Roman prison cell, in chains for Christ Jesus. And he says, *I'm not there yet.*

This Sunday we'll sit with one of the most quietly shocking paragraphs in the New Testament — Philippians 3:12–15. Paul has just spent ten verses describing what it cost him to follow Christ and what he's still chasing after. And then, in verse 12, he pulls the brake on his own self-assessment: ...

05/08/2026

A Lord's Supper meditation on Romans 7:4 — the verse where Paul stops us with a startling claim. We expect him to say the law has died and we are free; instead he says we did, through the body of Christ, so that we might belong to another — to him who was raised from the dead.

Matthew Allen walks the verse phrase by phrase: the body of Christ as the means of release, the resurrection as the reason our belonging holds, and the careful clarification that our righteousness was paid for at the cross, not earned by Christ keeping the law on our behalf. The cup is a cup of resurrection-belonging. From union with the risen Christ flows the fruit Paul says we are now meant to bear — not to earn an approval we don't have, but as the natural overflow of an approval the cross has already secured.

05/07/2026

Today's episode closes Matthew 5 with what Jesus saves for last — love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. The "hate your enemy" half of verse 43 was never in the Old Testament; it was a folk theology graft on top of Leviticus 19:18, and Jesus erases the line. The Father's indiscriminate love — sun on the evil and the good, rain on the righteous and the unrighteous — becomes the standard. Loving the enemy is how the family resemblance starts to show.

And verse 48's "be perfect" isn't a demand for moral flawlessness; it's a call to let love grow up into its full design — to become complete in love the way the Father is complete in love. Christ embodied this passage from the cross before he ever taught it. Grace doesn't excuse us from the call. Grace is what makes the call answerable.