Bible Reading Program

Many of you have expressed a desire to continue your Bible reading program.  You can find the chart that I took the readings from HERE.  I am so excited that we read through the Bible twice last week.  I pray it will continue.

Sunday March 1st Decisions

This weekend at Cornerstone, we made decisions to serve God with all our heart in the day to day menial tasks.  below are some of the decisions that were publicized.  I hope that you will make your own decision to serve God in the little things of life with all your heart, to the glory of God.

• I will schedule, schedule, schedule with all my heart to the glory of God.

• I will study sign language with all my heart to the glory of God.
  

• I will pray with all my heart to the glory of God.

• I will work hard during a busy season and not complain of being short staffed, but praise God for a job I enjoy.

• I will work in the hardware/paint department with all my heart to God’s glory.

• I will let people see Jesus in me with all my heart to the glory of God.

• I will correct errors with all my heart to the glory of God.
  

• I will be the best student with all my heart.
  

• I will be the best financial services specialist with all my heart
  

• I will transcribe doctor’s dictations with all my heart and care for my family.
  

• I will go to school with all my heart.

• I will do the stuff I need to do with all my heart to the glory of God.

• I will teach and train my children with all my heart.

• I will not let cancer beat me today.
  

• I will love my neighbor with all my heart.
  

• I will teach 3^rd grade with all my heart.
  

• I will serve and clean with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will clean my room with all my heart.
  

• I will serve food to the demanding and rude people and nice people with all my heart to the glory of God.
  

• I will manage cottages with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will listen to my family with all my heart.
  

• I will wake up earlier to eat breakfast with my family to start a great day and be at work on time and present each day to the Lord in prayer.
  

• I will greet others with all my heart.
  

• I will drive boats with all my heart to the glory of God.

• I will do workouts faithfully every day with all my heart to the glory of God.
  

• I will drive the monorail with all my heart to the glory of God.
  

• I will clean bathrooms with all my heart to the glory of God.
  

• I will serve God while working at HCC with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will do produce cutting with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will do pizza delivery with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will make music and write stories.
  

• I will teach my students with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will configure and test HRIS systems with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will do inventory maintenance with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will serve coffee with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will trim trees with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will do whatever God requires of me to do this week.
  

• I will paint and watch children with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will apply for jobs with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will make kids happy with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will teach kindergarten with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will do whatever it takes to get the job done with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will teach middle school with all my heart.
  

• I will be an example of a Christian with all my heart.
  

• I will witness to non-believers and encourage during these difficult times with all my heart.
  

• I will do my job with all my heart.
  

• I will serve the Lord every day at work with all my heart.
  

• I will go to the gym, help my sister and husband and deliver pizzas with all my heart.
  

• I will sit at a desk and email directors and bug them about getting me information with all my heart.
  

• I will drive a bus for God’s glory.
  

• I will deal with angry clients with all my heart.
  

• Protecting the magic with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will keep the home, pass out bulletins, and keep the books with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will work hard at my business and deal with problems with all my heart for the glory of God.
  

• I will try and eat lunch in the lunchroom instead of at my desk.
  

Tim Hawkins - A Homeschool Family

This goes out to all my homies with a big "home school high five!"

Come, Worship with Us!

This week I changed my sermon topic in our Kaleo series to talk about the need for daily worship in our lives.  I feel that the need that we all have is to have daily, meaningful time with God, however, I know that for most Christians, time with God is set aside as 1 hour on Sunday.  Sadly, many Christians will not even worship God in church.  To our church family, I want to beg you to come to worship service tonight or tomorrow.  Without worship, we will be anemic as Christians and ineffective in our calling.

Best Man Fail

tomorrow I will preside over two weddings.... one of them at the beach. So here's to you Jeff, Angie, Doug and Adel.... May your best man truly be the best.

Hope Center Tecolostote

Video presentation of our team's week in Teco.

Let's Get Ready to Ramble!!!!

No offense to Boxing Announcer Michael Buffer but there is so much going on that this blog is going to be a bit of a ramble.  keep up if you can....

1. God is doing some amazing things at Cornerstone.  Last weekend we had a record Sunday attendance, save Easter and Christmas.  Somebody asked what we did to get everyone there.  I said, nothing it was a God thing.  It is His church and He has decided that it is time for us to grow to the next level.  Now we just have to make some adjustments...
2. Speaking of Adjustments, I cannot wait to move over to the other building.  We have brand spanking new chairs and 3 times as much space to fill up in all three services.  No kidding, our church could run 1,000 in the space we will have....Let's fill it up!
3.  Today I have to go to the store for some toiletry items.... this is not usually news, but it is for our Missions trip to Nicaragua.  We have 8 people from our church leaving this Sunday afternoon and will spend a week doing construction on the Hope Center in Teco!  You can see the progress made by previous groups, and we will be doing all kinds of stuff.  I will be taking part in a baptism, I am guessing my part will be to distract the crocodiles, a la Steve Erwin, and then preaching via translator on Wednesday night.  Seriously pray for me to not screw that up!  I plan on telling my buddy Paul to let me speak in English, and for him to just preach in Spanish.
4. Speaking of World Hope, tonight we are going to a celebration dinner at First Baptist Orlando, celebrating all that God has done this past year through World Hope.  I am so glad that we have a strategic Missions Partner like Hope.  I don't know any missionaries who balance Evangelism and Ministry like them.  Jesus served people AND preached the gospel.  To do one and not the other is inadequate.
5. I will be meeting today with Gabe to work on some stuff for our upcoming message series Kaleo.  It is going to be awesome, and I want to kick this one up a notch.
6. It has been 1 month since Ward came along side and started working with us in our small groups.  God has given him a vision to make our church the most biblically literate church in the world, and I believe that Ward believes God will do it!  We are working with our small group leaders on Wednesday nights and are looking forward to getting everybody excited and engaged.
7.  This Sunday will be my last message from Gideon.  I am going to miss that dude! He has taught me a lot about myself and how God wants to use me and how to find His plan for me.  This weekend we will see that God want's us to do MORE with less.  Prolly a good message for 2009!
8. Let's put the recess back in recession!  I am tired of all the complaining!  Let's enjoy the downturn seriously!  I remember when the lights went out as a kid and we "GOT' to use candles!  That was a blast.  Just cause we have less, does not mean we have to pout!  Let's kick up the creativity and put recess back in recession!
9. Just got word from Paul in Nicaragua, that as soon as our team leaves, a surgical team will arrive from Canada.  I am not a Dr. but I can do my part by building an examination room.  That is teamwork!
10.  BTW for any of you who skip church when I skip town, I will not miss a weekend service, and I will know if you are not there!  More so, you will miss out our presentation on the 7th and 8th if you are not there, and I may not post pictures here simply out of spite!  Don't miss!
11. Giving was great in January!  We took a step forward this year, and set an aggressive budget.  Each week we need $5,000 to come in so that we can continue growing forward.  I told someone the other day that February will be the test for the rest of the year.  Moving into the larger room requires that everybody get on board and share the load.
12.  I don't know a time when I have been more hopeful about what God is doing in our church.  We do not have another "growth barrier" until we hit 400 in attendance and I can't wait to get to the foot of that mountain. Let's enjoy the journey!

Sarcastics Anonymous

T-Minus 18 Days to Nicaragua

2009 is off to a hot start, and it is hard to believe that our team will be leaving for Nicaragua in just 18 days.  We will be working with World Hope to construct some pavilions to be used by Missionary Paul Heier and National Pastors who will rotate Discipleship and Medical teams based out of  the city of Teco.  Another exciting announcement is that God has brought Ward Hodges to base his World Hope ministry out of Cornerstone.  Ward's ministry with us was announced last Sunday during our Annual Vision Meeting, and his position will be to strengthen the small groups and missions ministries of our church.  This trip will no doubt be the first of many trips that our church will take with World Hope around the world.  Ward and His wife Amy have a wonderful baby boy named Ethan.

Weekend Reflections

• I believe our set up team rocks, except that Michael Brown parked the trailer crooked.
• We had a bunch of people come to the Saturday version of the Vision Meeting
• The band rocked, and something about a kazoo 
• The band named themselves 23B after an illustration in Ward's sermon a few week's ago.
• It was cool to see Saturday nights turn 1 year old...
• I knew it was a great start when I got to church a few minutes early to see volunteers already at work.
• I got to spend a few extra minutes in prayer in the truck.
• People were early for worship, which is rare in FL, I guess they were excited.
• We had to put out extra seats out in the early service, welcome back snowbirds!
• Enjoyed preaching about Jonathan and his armor bearer.  Let's go pick a fight!
• Had a blast in the Vision Meeting sharing what God has done in our midst during 2008.
• We saw 40% growth last year, and are desperate to do it all over again.
• We set some BIG HARRY AUDACIOUS GOALS
• We introduced Ward Hodges joining the team to help us kick Small Groups up a notch.
• We challenged everyone to join the TEAM, and they responded.
  
• The last service was literally packed to the wall, we again ran out of chairs.
• I can't wait to break out the new chairs on February 21st
• 3 of our people ran in the Disney marathon.... but did not miss church, I love Saturdays!
• There was a ton of teenagers at church, Seth and Christy are knocking it out of the park!
• First time guests came up after the service asking where they can get involved, I love that!
• Crashed on the couch after services with a holy hangover!  Watched football...and Jack Bauer!