A Call for Prayer

Pastor Mark

On this blog we often are sharing things that are on our hearts and asking you to join with me as we are going deeper with God. There is a hunger stirring in many of us that is coming from the Lord. That hunger cannot be ignored, we must together pay the price to go deeper with God and allow our desire to meet His. We started a couple of entries ago talking about ahunger for God that will not be satisfied by other things. Without being aware of it we can allow so m [...]

A Hunger that Changes us

Pastor Mark

When we are hungry for God we will begin to understand the words of Jesus where He says that His food was to do the fathers will and to finish His work. When we are hungry for God nothing else will satisfy, not things of this world or things that would be a substitute for the presence and power of God. A hunger for the presence of God will allow us the joy of redirecting ourlives in ways that would please Him and to redirect our drives and passions in order to know God. Yo [...]

Filling Our Hunger with Hunger

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Jesus has promised in His Word that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness will be filled. There is a constant and wonderful promise that the Lord knows those who are reading for filling and it always comes down to those who are hungry not for religion but for Him. He has promised that HE will pour water on the thirsty and refresh the barren lands. "For I willpour water on him who is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground, I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed and [...]

Lessons for Auntie Anne

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Lessons from Auntie Anne

One of the great takeaways from meeting Anne Beiler and reading her book, "A Twist of Faith", has been to see how she prioritizes the power of a giving heart. Remember in an earlier entry Anne had said that "Success comes from hard work and effort but blessing comes from obedience." Obedience ingiving is a great key to a life that God blesses. That blessing from the Lord is not always in the form of financial i [...]

Lessons from Auntie Anne

Pastor Mark

In her book "Twist of Faith" Anne Beiler the founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzel, share some of the deep and painful moments of her life and how the Lord allowed her to walk through with forgiveness for others and for herself. Jesus told us that if we don't forgive others that He won't forgive us. Forgiveness is a choice that all of us have to learn to make andan action that we as Christ followers are called to do as part of who we are in Jesus. Forgiveness is not [...]

Lessons from Auntie Anne.

Pastor Mark

This past Friday Dee and I attended the Graduation ceremony for Valley Forge Christian College in Phoenixville Pennsylvania. The speaker for the commencement was the founder of Auntie Anne's pretzels which is the stores that most of you and I have seen at the malls nearly everywhere in this country. She began her stores in 1988 and now there are morethan a thousand in this country and in other nations. A few years ago she and her husband sold the bu [...]

Following Jesus Means.....

Pastor Mark

22 But don't just listen to God's word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.
23 For if you listen to the word and don't obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror.
24 You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.
25 But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what itsays and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. James 1:22-25

Following Jesus Means...

Pastor Mark

"And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

...Trusting for His Supply Our World is changing very quickly isn't it? Our nation is as well as we have gone from a country filled with hope to a people overwhelmed with concern and fear. Every day news outlets tell us about that latest price increase on gasoline or food, and how we are only at the beginning of what is to come. The f [...]

Following Jesus Means....

Pastor Mark

Remembering the Faithfulness of God. God's Word is so powerful and so pointed, it speaks to us about how we are to live out our lives and how we are to trust the Lord in every situation that we face. Psalm 57 is an excellent reminder of the faithfulness and trustworthiness of God even at the most difficult times. David the Shepherd boy anointed for the position ofKing of Israel is running from Saul. David has already seen the Hand of God numerous times; he has kil [...]

Following Jesus Means....

Pastor Mark

Yesterday we spoke of trusting God even when we don't know the path that lies ahead. The reason that we can and must trust in the Lord is because He has told us to. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. What I need more than anything is to trust God with everydetail and every situation that may arise. I am so quick to try to do it on my own, so apt to take it [...]

Following Jesus means...

Pastor Mark

Trusting. The life that you and I are being called to live is not one that is for the faint of heart, we have all found that out haven't we? In fact it is a life that will require you and me to follow the Lord even when the path has been laid out only a few feet at a time. Some of you are planners, some of you like to have things laid out months and years in advance. You've have worked out all the possible scenarios that could play out. It seems though that [...]

Following Jesus Means......

Pastor Mark

Daily Surrender. Last night we had the high honor to be in a room full of wonderful servants of Jesus; more, than 250 Volunteers from Cornerstone who willingly give of themselves week in and week out serving, loving and teaching and caring for others. These are the heroes of our church, these are the ones who serve often times without the notice they deserve, or they thanks ;that they have earned, all for the glory of Jesus and their desire to please Him. They are li [...]

Following Jesus Means ....

Pastor Mark

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtuesput on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:12-14

Forgiving

Recently a friend of my shared the above verse with [...]

Following Jesus Means....

Pastor Mark

Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself. . .Luke 9:23

Denying ourselves. When we come to understand what it means to make Jesus Lord of all, it will have the affect of revolutionizing our lives, in every aspect of what we hold dear and call our own. We are all in this process of denying ourselvesand taking up our cross and following Jesus. It is as if the Holy Spirit walks through the fields of our lives and point out [...]

Following Jesus Means ....

Pastor Mark

When the Lord calls us to be His own He calls us to a entirely new life, one that we are not familiar with. It is a life of surrender and self denial a life of following Jesus all the way. But if I am honest with you, a life that is easy to talk about but much harder to do. In Luke's gospel chapter 9 our Master makes all too clear what is required of those whochoose to follow Jesus. 23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would com [...]

Making "The" Message Clear

Pastor Mark

You and I live in a crazy world where at times it seems that there are more opinions than there are answers. If you watch any news outlets either on TV or the internet, it is easy to get bombarded with polls and pundits, nearly telling us what we should believe about anything at any time. When you add into the mix the culture around us that is so accepting of any thought and any ideasexcept Truth, we can become like a mouse sniffing cheese, we are caught in a trap, thinking that we need [...]

Praying for Open Doors

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When we hear the truth it is so important that we respond to it, we don't just desire to hear the Word but be doers of the Word, would you agree? Randy Hurst shared with us this past weekend about response evangelism, about sharing the Gospel with people as God opens the doors. He used the Scripture from Colossians 4 where theApostle Paul asks believers to pray that God would open doors for the message. If we take a moment and do just that right now, [...]

Response Evangelism

Pastor Mark

It's been a great weekend thus far, as we have been focusing on our amazing honor to share Jesus with everyone we come in contact with. We met with people on three different meetings yesterday to talk about how easy it is to take advantage of the opportunities that God gives tous to share with others the hope we have in Jesus. Randy Hurst who serves as the commissioner on evangelism for the Assemblies of God is sharing and teaching simple steps to respond to those opp [...]

Now It Begins- Part V

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We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you. II Corinthians 5:20

The Message

Yesterday I wastalking with a believer in our church who like all of us want to tell others about Jesus. This past week while they were at work they&nbs [...]

Now it Begins IV

Pastor Mark

I am praying that God will speak to each one of us in unique ways this week in several areas. First, that we would take advantage of the opportunities that He gives us to proclaim the life of Jesus in the form of response evangelism. Lord, let us be open and ready to respond to obvious encounters with others where we can share the Gospel. Second, that we wouldbe developing a deeper hunger for true discipleship and intimacy with God. Third, that God would allow us to [...]

Blog Entries for Pastor Mark

A Call for Prayer

A Hunger that Changes us

Filling Our Hunger with Hunger

Lessons for Auntie Anne

Lessons from Auntie Anne

Lessons from Auntie Anne.

Following Jesus Means.....

Following Jesus Means...

Following Jesus Means....

Following Jesus Means....

Following Jesus means...

Following Jesus Means......

Following Jesus Means ....

Following Jesus Means....

Following Jesus Means ....

Making "The" Message Clear

Praying for Open Doors

Response Evangelism

Now It Begins- Part V

Now it Begins IV