The Cornerstone Sermon

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The Cornerstone Sermon

October 6, 2024 • Rev. Dr. Roger Clayton • 1 Corinthians 14:26–33

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The next important part of worship is to be a place where the body of Christ comes together to uplift and serve each other. It is the place where the Almighty can meet the lost. There is a reason that one of the most powerful evangelistic tools that we have is to invite someone to come to worship. If our main focus is what we bring to God, then our secondary focus must be looking to the outside community and the 'other' to make sure that they are brought closer to God. In this way, we might be able to offer the seed that we threw to God.

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The Cornerstone Sermon

October 13, 2024 • Rev. Dr. Roger Clayton • Psalm 81:1–4

Finally, we bring ourselves as a living and breathing offering to God, but this is a hard thing to do. There are so many things that happen that make us not want to put forth the effort. It is so much easier to just let the music or the prayers or the liturgy or any other part of the worship service be a blessing unto you, instead of us finding a way to make ourselves part of the offering to God. It is here that we get in our own way because we don't like something about the service, so we stop ourselves from diving in. When we do this, we have made the worship about OUR preference, instead of an offering to our Perfect Creator. All songs used with permission via CCLI streaming license #20275641

The Cornerstone Sermon

September 29, 2024 • Rev. Dr. Roger Clayton • Exodus 3:1–6

The most important aspect of worship is an offering to God. Worship was not created to honor, bring glory, or build up anyone BUT God. If we are going to get back to the Heart of Worship, we will need to make sure that our true and full focus is what we are bringing to God, not what God is bringing to us. All songs used with permission via CCLI streaming license #20275641