Here are some things you’ll notice about our services each Sunday:

We gather morning and evening.

Starting and closing each Sunday with worship helps us set apart the entire day to be with God and with other Christians. Because the services highlight different Scripture passages, we grow in faith from various parts of the Bible. And, if life keeps you from attending one service, the other is always available.

We focus on the Bible.

God speaks to us through the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. At Cornerstone, you’ll hear the Bible from the beginning to the end of our services. Even our prayers and songs will be based on the Word of God. This focus means our sermons don’t offer opinions, but a careful explanation and application of a Bible passage. This is sometimes called expository preaching.

We rely on prayer.

Prayer expresses our dependency on God at every moment in life, including in our worship. During our services, we’ll ask God to be with us, to help us love him, to comfort us in our troubles, to enable us to serve him, and to make his Word powerful in our lives. God speaks through the Bible, we speak through prayer: worship, therefore, is a loving conversation between our heavenly Father and his children.

We sing reverent praises.

God has saved us in Jesus Christ to enjoy and glorify him. We make much of God and show his excellence when we sing songs of praise. At Cornerstone, we use songs that go back centuries and others that were written just a few years ago. Often, we sing from a hymnal but other times from song sheets. You might hear the piano, the organ, the guitar, the violin or the cello. But the goal is always the same, to honor God and express our love for him using excellent music and rich lyrics.

We declare our faith.

At Cornerstone, we regularly recite the historic creeds and confessions of the Christian Church. Whether the Apostles’ Creed or excerpts of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, declaring these truths emboldens us to speak about our faith and reminds us of our unity with believers of other times and places who have similarly trusted the Triune God of the Bible.

We confess our sins.

During every service, we speak honestly and openly of our failings, the ways we fall short of God’s will for our lives which the Bible calls sin. Often such confession will have a special part in our service, when we will admit our wrongs with sorrow, but do so with certainty that God forgives us through the death of Jesus Christ and changes us by his Spirit to live as he desires.

We welcome families.

God makes promises to believers and their families. Worship isn’t a time to divide families but keep them together as much as possible. That means sometimes the joyful noise of our services includes a baby crying! The congregation helps with childcare when desired. We have a cry room and nursery spaces where the services can be heard. But most of all, we want to support moms and dads as they encourage their children to participate the best they can, growing in grace a little bit each week.

We engage the whole person.

God made us with the abilities to think, to feel, and to decide. Our services aim to touch every part of who we are by instructing the mind with God’s truth, igniting the emotions with love for him, and equipping our wills to make godly choices throughout our lives. Worship isn’t a spectator sport in which we sit back and watch; it involves every part of who we are in a relationship with our amazing God.