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Cornerstonekaty
Sermons from Cornerstone Presbyterian Church (EPC) Katy, Texas
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The Key to a Blessed Life
Psalm 128 This spring I planned our Utah motorcycle trip. I planned how far we would ride each day and where we would stay. But often along the way, we encountered opportunities to turn off and have unplanned adventures. We missed many because our reservations were fixed. Some of those would have...
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Unless the Lord Builds
Psalm 127 Throughout these Songs of Ascents, we have followed the pilgrim’s journey toward Zion as a picture of the Christian life. That journey begins in repentance, as we turn from a world of lies to the home God is preparing for us. As we travel, he is preparing us for that home—teaching us to...
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Choosing a Team
Luke 5:1-11 This test showcases how God advances redemption through ordinary people, not cultural elites, as Jesus calls working fishermen into His service. It traces a journey from skepticism to faith: after fruitless labor, the disciples obey Jesus’ command, haul in a miraculous catch, and are...
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Music in worship sample
Recorded by Jeremy rather than our sound system.
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Joy in the Journrey
Psalm 126 So far in our look at these songs of ascent, we’ve compared the journey of the pilgrim returning to Zion to the path of a disciple. We’ve seen how it begins with an intentional departure from a world of lies, recognizing this world does not have the answers that our hearts are searching...
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Stable in the Storm
Psalm 125 Every person is traveling toward some vision of the good life. We may not use the word pilgrimage, but all of us are trying to reach a place where we believe we will finally be secure, satisfied, and at rest. The world tells us that each person must define that destination for himself....
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Without Love, Where Would You Be Now?
Palm 124 When I was a child I used to ride my bicycle all over the neighborhood, whether it was to visit friends or go exploring. On one particular day, however, things went dangerously wrong. I don’t remember it, though, as I woke up in my home with my mother at my side. What I do remember is…
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Keep Your Eyes on the Lord
Psalm 123 is one of the Songs of Ascents. These were songs for the road. God’s people sang them as they traveled up to Jerusalem to worship at the temple. The journey to Zion was a real journey, but it also became a picture of the life of faith. God’s people were going somewhere. They had left…
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Excited to Worship!
Psalm 122 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” This statement is such a stark contrast to one that might sound more familiar, “Ah, do I have to go today?” What made the idea of going to the house of the Lord such a delight? How do we go from “do I have to go?” to...
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Help for the Journey
Psalm 121 Can a person lose his salvation? I grew up in a tradition that taught me that my will has the last word. God extends his grace to me in the gospel, but I decide whether or not I believe it. That sounded reasonable to me. God offers salvation, and I have the power to accept or reject his...
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Living in a World of Lies
Psalm 120 This Songs of Ascents by showing where the Christian pilgrimage starts: in distress, amid a world shaped by lies and hostility. Like the psalmist dwelling in distant Meshech and Kedar, believers feel far from home, surrounded by values opposed to God’s truth and peace. Yet deceit is not...
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Transformative Compassion
Luke 10:25–37 Genuine compassion begins by truly seeing another person’s need, but it does not stop with sympathy—it moves us toward action that may cost our time, resources, comfort, or plans. Jesus reframes the lawyer’s question from “Who is my neighbor?” to “Will you be a neighbor?”…
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The High Value of the Law
Psalm 119 The psalmist is enthusiastic about God’s law. Enthusiastic is an understatement. He’s ecstatic about it. Why is that? It is the key to happiness. This is not the first time this idea has been introduced. It is the very first idea in the Psalms as a whole. 1 Blessed is the man who walks...
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The Church of Insufficient Self-Sufficiency
Revelation 3:14–22 The Laodicean church was characterized as lukewarm, something that would case Jesus to "spit out of his mouth." But this lukewarmness was merely the symptom of a deeper problem: self-sufficiency. Confident in their wealth and resources, they had grown complacent, neglecting...
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Courageous Compassion
Matthew 25:31-46 Courageous compassion means recognizing Christ in people who are hungry, thirsty, sick, imprisoned, displaced, or vulnerable. Matthew 25 does not teach that good works earn salvation; compassionate action is evidence of faith and inheritance received through Christ. Believers are...
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Witnesses in 3D
Acts 1"6-8
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God's Steadfast Love and the Gates of Righteousness
Psalm 118 Imagine being an Israelite in ancient history. They faced countless threats and had every reason to wonder whether God's promises would survive. Suppose you were alive in Egypt. For four hundred years God's people had lived under slavery. Pharaoh ordered the Hebrew baby boys thrown into...
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What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do - 3
Luke 15:11-21 The Christian life requires continual repentance, honest self-examination, and dependence on God's grace. Like the prodigal son, people often seek fulfillment apart from God only to discover that their own solutions leave them empty. Lasting change begins when sin, fears…
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The Captured Heart
Psalm 116 We read many psalms which are carefully constructed forms of poetry. Psalm 119, for example, has a unique section for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Other psalms follow chiastic structures where they build up to a climax and then parallel the verses leading up to the climax to…
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The Danger of Idolatry
Psalm 115 If a proper worship of the Lord, both corporately and in the way you live in the world, leads to godliness, that is becoming like God in your character, then it only makes sense that worshiping other things will make us like these other things. This is what Psalm 115 is highlighting.…
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Tremble at His Presence
A few weeks ago we looked at Psalm 111 and 112, which shows how the character of God is shaped in the man who begins with a fear of the Lord. We saw how worshiping God and studying his works lead to this character formation. What we didn’t discuss much is what this term “fear” means. How do you...
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Who is Like the Lord, our God?
Psalm 113 God calls people to praise Him because worship is what humanity was created for. God is exalted above all nations and even above the heavens, yet in His grace He stoops down to care for the weak, the poor, and the forgotten. He raises the needy from the dust and gives hope to the barren...
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How Worship Shapes You
Psalm 111-112 One of the defining beliefs of modern western culture is that the truest thing about you is your inner desire. This is why we see the rise of “your truth” and “my truth.” It is why we see the rise in all kinds of self-identities. People are looking at their inner desires and…
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Who is the Christ?
Psalm 110 This morning we come to the most quoted Old Testament passage by the New Testament writers. It was absolutely central to their understanding of who Jesus is. It is a theologically rich text in terms of Christology. In fact, it is the text that Jesus himself and the apostles appeal to in...
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Help Against My Accuser
Psalm 109 This morning we come to an imprecatory psalm, which is a psalm that calls down curses. There are several in the psalms. This is the last of them and probably the harshest overall. What are we to make of it? In the New Testament Jesus calls us to love our enemies and pray for those who...
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What do you do when you don't know what to do
Luke 15:11-20
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With God We Shall Go Valiantly
Psalm 108 I want to begin with a story about David. David was the greatest king in Israel’s ancient history. He was called the man after God’s own heart. With such accolades, you might be inclined to think that his life was easy. For those of you who are familiar with his story, you know that...
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Saving Faith and a Life of Prayer
James 5:13-20 We’ve got one more sermon from the book of James and it has to do with prayer. If we put that in the context of the question we’ve been asking in James: what does saving faith, that is, genuine faith, look like? We can say that genuine faith leads a person to a life of prayer. Let’s...
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The Risen King
Zechariah 14:1-21 Easter is a pivotal day in history. It is arguably the most significant day of the Christian calendar. We hear that and believe it, but I’m convinced most of us don’t really understand it. That’s not to say we don’t value the resurrection. We think of the resurrection as God’s...
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The Risen King
Zechariah 14 Easter is a pivotal day in history. It is arguably the most significant day of the Christian calendar. We hear that and believe it, but I’m convinced most of us don’t really understand it. That’s not to say we don’t value the resurrection. We think of the resurrection as God’s…
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Preparing for Glory
Zechariah 12:10-13:9 Let’s jump in with a story; a story that begins in a place of darkness. It begins in ancient Jerusalem. Israel had left Egypt with grand hopes and a bright future. God would fulfill his promises to Abraham and make them into a great nation in a land full of “milk and honey.”…
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Patience
James 5:7-12 Last week James forced us to wrestle with a very uncomfortable question: Where do you really find your security? Is it in what you can build, such as your career or your family? Is it in what you can save, such as your retirement portfolio? Is it in what you can control, such as your...
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Saving Faith and Security
James 4:13-5:6 Each week we’ve approached James with this simple question: what does saving faith actually look like? How do we discern saving faith from false faith? For it is a frightening thing to build a life on something that, in the end, will fail us. As many of you know, I grew up going to…
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Sowing Peace
James 3:18=4:12 Last week we ended with James statement: a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. (James 3:18) James is talking about life within a community. Sowing peace is a powerful thing and is a product of saving faith. As we continue our series in James looking…
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Who is Wise among you?
James 3:13-18 We’ve been looking at James who gives us a clear look at what genuine saving faith looks like. I fear there are far too many people in the church today that believe they are Christians, but are not. Remember Jesus’ words, “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way…
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Is your Faith Dead or Alive?
James 2:14-26 Our big question in the book of James, “what does saving faith look like and do I have it?” comes to its climactic moment in this passage. James sums up much of his argument for his entire letter in verse 26, “faith apart from works is dead.” Over the centuries the church has…
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Show No Partiality
James 2:1-13 This morning we turn to chapter 2 and find another characteristic of saving faith. It does not show partiality. When I first read this chapter, I wasn’t quite sure why this was here. That is not to say we shouldn’t discourage partiality. It just doesn’t seem up to the same level of...
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Doers of the Word
James 1:19-27 What is saving faith? In January I preached three funerals. Every time I do, I feel the eagerness that so many have that everyone goes to heaven when they die. With my mother, so many of my relatives commented about how all of these other relatives, who passed away years ago, are…
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Do You Believe This?
John 11:17-40
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When You Remember Me
Luke 22:7-22
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Saving Faith is Forged in the Fire
James 1:1-18 As much as we talk about James as a letter that highlights the importance of good works, (which it does so much so that Martin Luther questioned its canonicity) it is actually a letter about faith. And that faith is extremely important, for the result of that faith is the crown of...
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Cultivating Gratitude
Luke17:11-19
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A Brand Plucked from the Fire
Zechariah 3:1-10 Have you ever come into a situation in which you were completely and utterly unprepared? It is enough to induce a moment of panic. What will you do? What will you say? All you can envision is a complete unravelling. I remember how that would express itself to me as a child. In…
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A House Full of Glory
Haggai 2:1-9 I still remember the day I was dropped off for college. My hard work had paid off and I was standing on the footsteps of college, full of excitement and confidence that this would lead to a bright future, that this would lead to glory! But as the year went on, I found lots of things…
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God's Justice is Good News
Nahum 1:1-15 Nahum is a difficult book. It is prophecy against Ninevah, the capital of Assyria and it describes the devastating power of God aimed in judgment upon them. Ninevah fell in 612 BC, when the Assyrian empire fell to Babylon. That sets it apart from most of the prophets, which spoke of...
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A Ruler from Bethlehem
Micah 5:1-5 Micah is best known for this passage. When the Magi arrived in Jerusalem looking for “he who had been born king of the Jews” they went to Herod to find out. Of course, he didn’t know so he called the chief priests and scribes (the experts) to ask them. In response, they paraphrased…
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The Remnant of Edom
Amos 9:11-15 Amos was a prophet who lived near the end of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, similar to that of Hosea. His message was one of warning about the coming judgment of God upon the nation with a twofold goal: his prophecy was a warning and call to repentance, as well as a promise of hope...
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The Bad, the Bold, and Beautiful
Hosea 3:1-5 According to James Boice, this is the greatest chapter in the Bible. Why would he say such a thing? Hosea, like many prophets, has a very hard—and strange—calling. He was told to go and marry a wife of whoredom. This goes against good sense and certainly doesn’t fit Paul’s instruction...
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Biblical Womanhood
1 Timothy 2:8-15 When I was originally thinking about this topic, my mind went to the passage in Proverbs 31, listed in your bulletin. It is an excellent explanation of a godly woman. And we will look at it this morning. But as I pressed more into the topic, another text seems more to the point.…
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Biblicical Masculinity
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 In light of our cultural climate, taking a look at what the Bible says about masculinity is in order. So what do we find? Simply put, there are times when masculinity is the God-given trait for defending and advancing the kingdom of God.
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