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Knock It Down (Debt Reduction Opportunity)

Church Family, The elders are asking everyone to prayerfully consider giving to debt reduction in April.  The campaign is called “Knock it Down”.  We would like to pay down a large portion of our mortgage starting in April with giving going into next year.  Please submit a pledge card no later than May 1 (https://cornerstone-marion.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/KNOCK-IT-DOWN-PLEDGE-CARD-SINGLE-1.pdf). Please prayerfully consider what […]

Pastor Post: February 24, 2022

Church Family, First off, I just want to say a big thank you to all our volunteer leaders and our fantastic staff (Gary Hoobler, Michael Biegler, and Meegan Dyrland–I love you guys!). We are so blessed by your prayers, teaching, service, care, giving, and love. We have fantastic elders, deacons, directors, ministry leaders, and servants […]

Pastor Post: 2/3/22

Church family, Hurry sickness may be the greatest pandemic in our world today. The symptoms of hurry sickness are anxiety, prayerlessness, and lack of rest. It’s moving from one phone call, text message, and tv show to the next. Hurry sickness means fast food, late nights, and lack of sleep. Hurry sickness causes me to […]

Pastor Post – 1/20/22

Friends in Christ, #1: Take 5 minutes and let me encourage you in the Word with this video: https://youtu.be/NSHAff-ZMPA #2: Please register today for the city wide AbideCR Conference, held February 11-12…let’s seek the Lord together (http://abidecr.com).  #3: Also, just a final reminder that during the Leadership Summit (this coming Monday night @7PM), we’ll spend the first […]

Pastor Post: 1/6/2022

Hello Church Family, Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He walks with us into 2022; His Word never fails. Some of us carry griefs into 2022; I pray you sense God’s compassion and mercy. Some begin with enthusiasm and hope; I pray God puts strength into your steps. Regardless, know that Christ promised to […]

Pastor Post: 8/27/2020

Dearest Church Family, Our Sovereign Lord reigns over hurricanes, derechos, riots and viruses. He pours grace down on the broken-hearted; he sustains the weak. The world needs to know our crucified and risen King; we need to know Him and find daily life through Him. To that end, our fall ministries are not incidental. Rather, […]

Derecho Recovery Update – 8/20/20

Dear Cornerstone Church, Derecho came roaring through our city and taught us a major lesson: Any thoughts we had of control were only an illusion. Our hope is in trusting the One who is in control – the Almighty God – who loves us and always has our best interests at heart for His glory. I […]

2 Items Related to Regathering

​Dear Church Family, We’re on track to have our first Lord’s Day gathering in our church facility on Sunday June 7th at 9:25AM. For those choosing to stay at home, we hope to maintain a Facebook Live service at the same time. Currently, we’re awaiting some technology to enable us to do this. At minimum, […]

Weekly Update 4/2/2020

Friends, We have lost our natural rhythms of life. We’ve lost our normal patterns of giving and receiving encouragement. We’ve lost our normal ways of serving people with our gifts. And yet, Christ’s Church is a body made up of many invaluable parts (see 1 Corinthians 12). Together we use our gifts to build up […]

Cornerstone Updates 3/27/2020

Dear friends, Buddhists and Hindus have no reason to grieve because everything is karma; their teaching says you earn every suffering you get. Atheists and agnostics have nowhere to turn, because life is just what it is.The God of Islam is “ineffable” and thus you should just take whatever Allah gives. But Christians grieve. We grieve because […]