![]() ![]() ![]() I was born and raised into a godly family in Vancouver, Canada, and grew up in the church. As new members, we can testify to Cornerstone being a place where the elders model humility and sacrifice, the saints take God's Word seriously and the church loves one another deeply. Since moving to Orange County, we have been overwhelmed by the kindness Cornerstone Bible Church has shown us. ![]() While in Spokane, the Lord answered the prayer of many saints and gave us our two daughters, Margo (adopted in 2010) and Norah (adopted in 2013).Īt the end of 2016, I was brought on by the elders of Cornerstone Bible Church to serve as the Associate Pastor. I was blessed to be hired as Youth Pastor in 2007 and then became the Family and Children's Ministry Pastor in 2011. Following graduation, we moved to Spokane, Washington to serve at Faith Bible Church. During our first year of marriage, the Lord used many circumstances to bring me to The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California. In 2000, I married my wife Melissa in Columbus, Ohio. God granted me repentance and faith in the work of Christ on my behalf at a young age. My parents modeled a love for the Lord and His Word, an urgency to share the Gospel and a commitment to do what Jesus said. Whether it has been in the Nursery, Care Group, Bible Study, Missions, Youth Ministry, Administration, or even now as a servant-elder - it has always been my joy and privilege to serve the Lord and His body.īy God's grace, I was born into a home where the Gospel was the main thing. The Lord has blessed me with many opportunities to serve and learn about the ministry of the gospel (in spite of, or even through many struggles with my own pride and sinfulness). I grew up in the Placentia/Yorba Linda area and work as a Family Medicine Physician and Residency Teaching Faculty in Anaheim & Santa Ana. We were married in 2006 and have been blessed with 3 children. By God's grace, I met my wife, Susan, here at CBC and after some persistence and much prayer from many people, she finally said "yes". I learned that I was an even worse sinner than I thought and that God, because of His great love with which He loved us (Eph 2:4), provided not only the payment for my sin through the death of Jesus Christ (1 Tim 2:6), but also the imputed righteousness of Christ through His life and resurrection (2 Cor 5:21 Rom 1:16-17) High, God saved me by His grace around 1992 through the college ministry of Grace Community Church (UCLA Grace on Campus - Go Bruins!). That temple is rising into ever richer and nobler proportions, and it was never more manifest than it is today, that the "Cornerstone is Christ." - R.T.Having grown up in the church and even attending Christian school through Jr. The Architect himself did interfere, brushed those petty officials aside, had the tried Stone brought out, and on it he has had built the new temple of the ages. The Architect himself may order this Stone to be brought, and made the "Head of the corner." But happily they were only like overseers, or clerks of works. It may lie forever in the quarry for all they care. And they were, then and there, rejecting that "tried Stone, that precious Cornerstone." They would put nothing on it. When our Lord spoke, the Cornerstone was almost ready and there were the men who prided themselves on being the builders of God's temple of religion. ![]() The Captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering, for his work as the "bringer on of souls." "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things that he suffered." The Cornerstone was being chiselled and, bevelled for its place. The apostle permits us to think of the experiences of our Lord's human life as fitting him to be the Saviour he became. Describe the work done on the limestone block in order to fit it for its place as a foundationstone. Dean Plumptre says, "In the primary meaning of the psalm, the illustration seems to have been drawn from one of the stones, quarried, hewn, and marked, away from the site of the temple, which the builders, ignorant of the head architect's plans, had put on one side, as having no place in the building, but which was found afterwards to be that on which the completeness of the structure depended, that on which, as the chief cornerstone, the two walls met, and were bonded together." Take this suggestion, and consider. Probably the figure of the "cornerstone" is taken from the corner of Mount Moriah, which had to be built up from the valley, in order to make a square area for the temple courts. Memorial stones are taking the place of foundation stones. There is no sense in which buildings now rest on them. Foundation stones are now mere ornaments. Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected…įoundations are not now laid as in olden times. ![]()
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