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JAKE STIMPSON | VISION | PREACHING THE GOSPEL | ROMANS ROAD | CHARLES BLONDIN | BELIEF | LORD
How do we communicate the Gospel? How do we tell the world the good news that Jesus died for their sins? In the book of Romans, Paul lays out clearly what Jesus has done for us on the cross and how to respond to it.
JAKE STIMPSON | PREACHING THE GOSPEL | GREAT COMMISSION | EVANGELISM | FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS
When you live in Wisconsin, you grow to like cheese. It’s just part of our DNA up here in the frozen tundra. Probably literally a part of our DNA at this point. After a few years as a missionary in Romania, we were hankering for some good cheddar cheese. We visited international stores, talked to expats, and kept our eyes constantly open, always on the hunt for the elusive dairy product that would satisfy our wildest dreams. When we finally tracked some down, we told everyone we knew where to get it. Why? Because finding good cheddar in Eastern Europe is good news. The Greek word translated “Gospel” literally means “good news.” What is this good news? How can we share it? Watch the video…
JAKE STIMPSON | PREACHING THE GOSPEL | GREAT COMMISSION | ROMANS 1 | ROMAN EMPIRE
What would you do if you lived under a tyrannical government with corrupt leaders who demanded your absolute obedience? Leaders who emptied the treasury for their own perverse pursuits, leaders of such moral depravity and brutal violence that it would shock even the most hardened heart? What would you do if the people around you were indifferent to suffering, if right and wrong didn’t mean anything anymore, if the whole world seemed to have gone mad all at once? That’s the world into which Jesus launched His church with a simple command – preach the Gospel. If the Gospel was the answer in the first century, the Gospel is still the answer today. Church, we need to get serious about proclaiming what Jesus has done.
JAKE STIMPSON | VISION | PREACHING THE GOSPEL | DISCIPLES | PLANTING CHURCHES | GREAT COMMISSION
Preaching the Gospel, making disciples, raising up leaders, and establishing churches until the whole earth is filled with the glory of the Lord. That just so happens to be our vision statement at Cornerstone, but it’s more than that. It’s what Jesus commissioned His people to do to spread His kingdom on the earth. It’s about seeing lives changed.
JAKE STIMPSON | REMEMBER | DEUTERONOMY | TRADITION | FORGET | NEW YEARS EVE
“Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.” (Deuteronomy 32:7) Throughout the Bible, God exhorts His people to remember, to not forget all He has done. Despite the constant exhortation, throughout every phase in their history, Israel continually forgot the works of God and opened themselves up to sin, discouragement, fear, and idolatry. As we finish up 2020, don’t be like Israel. Take time to turn to God and remember what He has done this year.
JAKE STIMPSON | LUKE 1 | GABRIEL | MESSIAH | BIRTH OF JESUS | NATIVITY | MARY
In his book The Desire of the Everlasting Hills, author Thomas Cahill wrote, “Beneath the surface differences of each culture… there beats in human hearts a hope beyond all hoping, the hope of the hopeless… the hope of those who… seem to be waiting in vain, a hope – not for an emperor… but for a Just One.” After 400 years of silence, in the midst of political oppression and religious stagnation, the angel Gabriel appeared to a young woman named Mary. As he began to speak, he unleashed the most important news the world had ever heard, that the long-awaited Savior was coming to make all things right.
JAKE STIMPSON | IDENTITY | WHO ARE YOU | IN CHRIST | VICTORY | MORE THAN CONQUERORS | ROMANS 8
After years of persecution, struggle, and suffering, the Apostle Paul once wrote, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” What did he mean that we are “more than conquerors”? How could someone who suffered so much see himself as completely victorious?
JAKE STIMPSON | IDENTITY | WHO ARE YOU | IN CHRIST | SONS OF GOD | GLORY | GLORIFIED
In the late 1890s in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a wealthy lawyer passed away. His widow, Alice, unable to provide financially for herself, sold their luxury items, dismissed their servants, and locked herself away in their home. She survived for the next 20 years on handouts and charity from kind neighbors. After she passed away, the decaying mansion was opened. To everyone’s surprise, over $4.8 million in cash was found hidden inside. Alice had held onto more than enough money to live in luxury, yet for the past 2 decades, she had lived like a pauper. In Christ, you have been given a new identity, complete with untold wealth – His glory within and upon you. Are you grabbing ahold of the glory God has poured into you? Or are you living in spiritual poverty?
JAKE STIMPSON | IDENTITY | WHO ARE YOU | IN CHRIST | DEUTERONOMY 28 | BLESSED | SAINTS | HOLINESS | SALT
In Christ, you are way more important, more powerful, and more loved than you realize. You are blessed beyond belief. You are the salt of the earth, called to bring flavor, counteract bitterness, heal the sick, melt hard, icy hearts, and preserve from decay. And you are a saint of God, set apart for Him and His purposes. Stop running after the things that you were. Be who you were created to be in Christ.
JAKE STIMPSON | IDENTITY | WHO ARE YOU | IN CHRIST | NEW CREATION | 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 | YOU CAN CHANGE
Blaise Pascal stated, “Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, but we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ. We only know life and death through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus, we cannot know the meaning of our life, the meaning of our death, the meaning of God, or the meaning of ourselves. It is only in Christ.” When you come to Jesus, you find your identity in Him. Who is this new person in Christ? What does that new identity entail? Way more than most of us realize…