What Are We Really Living For?
TITLE: What Are We Really Living For?
PREACHER: Mark Meeske
DATE: 8 July 2012 – Sunday PM
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The Incomparable Christ – Part 5: Hebrews 2 – Jesus Greater Than Man
TITLE: The Incomparable Christ – Part 5
PREACHER: Lance de Ruig
DATE: 8 July 2012 – Sunday AM
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The Exchange and The Power of Dreams
by Ryan Strydom
This last Friday’s Exchange had Bill Taylor share on the “Power of Dreams,” an encouraging morning as Bill enriched the group with his testimony and saw how God had given him dreams that God had brought to reality.
Bill is the CEO of a large and award-winning company in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry. He has also been quite involved in mission / apostolic work and the local church, in addition to serving on the Board of Zambia Project, a grouping that conducts social justice projects into Zambia and plants churches.
Bill shared how, from a very young age, he used to dream of being a business person. He included a couple of humorous life stories that also taught him a lot – such as, when he was eight years old, a truck carrying watermelons had an accident near his house and he took he bashed up watermelons and made them into juice, so that he could sell the juice to the neighbourhood. It was a huge failure, but it taught him that you need to have a product of value.
Also, it taught him that you need to sell to a market that has money, as he grew up in a neighbourhood that was in most respects quite poor. Bill linked this into how, as Christians, we shouldn’t be ashamed of making a profit – it’s what we do with the profit that matters, not the desire to make a profit.
Profit comes with hard work, something Bill has had a lot of experience in. A lot of Christians aim to have a balanced lifestyle and many times this means they shun hard work. But Bill says he has struggled to find a Christian that can really define what a balanced life looks like. So while rest is important, so is work, and Christians shouldn’t be afraid to work hard.
It’s been a journey for Bill and his wife on the way to where they are now. Bill even shared how, for six months at one stage, all they really were able to eat were Koo beans and two-day old bread from the baker close by (who his wife managed to make a deal with). It’s encouraging to see that God eventually brings us out of these kinds of situations and at the same time those kinds of situations can bear tremendous fruit. It’s difficult to see that when we’re in them, but we’re not in them forever!
Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
Every Sunday evening from 29 July to 19 August, Cornerstone will be running Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage – a humorous DVD series that challenges the way we think about marriage, our spouses and ourselves; and reminds us that marriage can indeed always be better.
Many of us have approached marriage in the wrong way – expecting perfection from our spouses and from marriage itself. Here’s what the Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage website says about this topic:
“Ever walk past a mirror and are shocked or mortified by what you see? Your hair standing up in a weird way, your slip showing, your fly open, egg stuck in your teeth? Mirrors can be real lifesavers. Had it not been for that mirror, you may have gone the entire day looking ridiculous.
“Marriage is a mirror. By living so closely with another human being, you start to get a picture of what you really look like. You start to see where you need to adjust and change. This is why marriage is so effective at making people’s lives more rich and productive—if they adjust to the needed changes.
“Unfortunately, many expect marriage to be something that makes them look better, not something that reveals where they don’t look so good. Additionally, rather than see where we need to change, we opt to project our own negative images on our spouses and point out where they need to change: She is so irritating….he is such a lazy slob….I don’t want to act this way, but she brings out the worst in me.”
Read more at the Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage website.
It’s going to be a great series with plenty of laughs as Mark Gungor, the host of the series, in a tongue-in-cheek way talks about the differences between men and women and the way we approach marriage incorrectly.
Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
Dates: Sunday evenings of 29 July, 5 August, 12 August, 19 August
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: R200 per couple for all the evenings. Cost includes snacks and a romantic dinner for the last evening.
Where: Cornerstone Church Bedfordview – Benard Road East, Bedfordview, Johannesburg
Info: Email info@www.cornerstonechurch.co.za or call 011-616-4073
Register: You can register for this event in the following ways:
• At the info desk at Cornerstone Church Bedfordview and paying in cash.
• By filling out the form below and sending your EFT payment confirmation to info@www.cornerstonechurch.co.za
NOTE: There will be childcare for ages 3 and up.
A Kingdom of Priests
TITLE: A Kingdom of Priests
PREACHER: Marcus Herbert
DATE: 1 July 2012 – Sunday PM
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Acts 2
TITLE: Acts 2
PREACHER: Marcus Herbert
DATE: 1 July 2012 – Sunday AM
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Who Are You Really?
TITLE: Who Are You Really?
PREACHER: Kieran McClean
DATE: 24 June 2012 – Sunday PM
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What is Jesus Saying to Us?
TITLE: What is Jesus Saying to Us?
PREACHER: Marcus Herbert
DATE: 24 June 2012 – Sunday AM
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