Cornerstone International Church

The word church shows up 106 times in the New Testament. The first occurrence of the word is found on the lips of Jesus in Matthew 16:13-20. Though we could spend a little time on this Scripture alone, I am going to move on to something else, and maybe we can revisit this specific passage in the near future. Read the rest of this entry »

When we speak of worship, what initially comes to mind for many is the corporate time of worship in our Sunday morning gatherings, which usually includes music. Or, within some more traditional contexts, worship would involve the whole ’service’, including the sharing of communion, the preaching of the Word, and a handful of other activities that could take place. Read the rest of this entry »

A particular title from a blog article I saw a few weeks back reminded me of these words of Jesus found in the ‘kingdom parables’ of Matthew 13, as they are known:

⁵¹ “Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.” ⁵²And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” (Matthew 13:51-52)

Jesus had just spent quite a lot of time laying out teaching about the kingdom of God, or kingdom of heaven. And He had done it in parabolic fashion, as was His habit at times. Read the rest of this entry »

Cornerstone International Church works with the network of churches known as Lifelink International. Within our network of churches, we believe apostles and prophets still exist today, but are definitely to be connected to the initial apostolic foundation and faithful to the teaching of Scripture. I’m writing a series on this topic on my personal blog.

Below, I have provided an audio clip. In this sound byte, Mike Rimmer, who works with both Cross Rhythms and the BBC radio in the UK, spends some time interviewing Alan Scotland. Alan works apostolically amongst the Lifelink network of churches.

In this 30-minute interview, Alan shares his story from childhood to the present looking at what God has been doing for these past 60 years. For those who visit this blog and are part of the Lifelink network, I thought you might be interested in hearing the interview.

Also, as a proponent for apostles today, this might be interesting for others to listen to, as I believe Alan has an apostolic ministry today, but is very humble and balanced. This is somewhat contrary to many other self-proclaimed apostles.

You can also download the audio file from our podcast site or from our iTunes podcast.

It’s quite possible that one can become wary of all the ‘new year’s resolutions’ with the start of a new year. I don’t believe they are evil. I just know there is a lot of hype that can usually go down the drain after a few weeks or even days. Read the rest of this entry »