Biblical Trust Psalm 118 is a personal testimony of deliverance, which then becomes the testimony of a congregation. It is a call to Thanksgiving, which flows from a heart that has been fundamentally changed in conversion. Therefore, the big idea this morning is simple: When personal salvation occur…
How Mephibosheth’s Story of Acceptance Points Us to God’s Extravagant Grace Paul Tautges This past Sunday, as most of you know, I read my new children’s book, Dinner with the King, to the elementary children during our worship service. Several teachers also read it to the toddler and preschoo…
God Makes a Way (Psalm 114) Well, we notice that there’s a second way that God is glorified in Psalm 114. God makes a way where there seems to be no way. Turn with me to the Book of Joshua, so to the right. A few books to Joshua. The people of God had been led by Moses to the edge of the promised la…
He Who is Forgiven Little, Loves Little Luke 7:36-50 The Pharisee versus the Sinful Woman The Pharisee was not consciously aware of how far he fell short of the holiness of God. Here was a woman who knew she had broken God’s law in more ways than she could count or remember. And then there was the P…
Rising Above Trials: The Unshakeable Hope of Resurrection – 1 Peter 1:3-7 Explained The book of 1 Peter is a letter written by the apostle Peter to Christians who were suffering persecution. Peter wrote this letter to encourage them and to remind them that they had an unshakeable hope in the resurre…
The Price of Ministry This blog post is an excerpt from a sermon preached by Paul Tautges titled Faithfully Stewarding the Gift of Ministry from Colossians 1:24-29. This sermon was preached at Cornerstone Community Church on Sunday, October 22, 2023. Introduction Paul believed that the price…
October 28, 2023 Excerpt from a sermon preached on October 15, 2023 from Colossians 1:21-23. Let me remind you of something the Lord Jesus taught us that’s recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. I was in this chapter as a part of my scheduled reading this morning and it just reminded me about the…
December 22, 2022 Posted by Paul Tautges, Pastor I’ll never forget the first time I sang Hark! the Herald Angels Sing as a new believer in Jesus Christ. It was Christmas 1984, so it had been about seven months since the Holy Spirit breathed life into my dead heart, and I turned from re…
October 8, 2022 Posted by Paul Tautges I’ve been taken aback by how many of you have shared with me how the Holy Spirit is using the recent two-part sermon series Uprooting Bitterness, to help you. If you want to listen again or share them with others, here’s the link. If the Lord has…
Posted by Paul Tautges, Pastor March 10, 2022 The apostle John put feet to Christian love when he wrote, By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet c…