Parenting & A Wedding

I hope you had a great Labor Day weekend!  For me, one of the highlights was seeing the wedding at the 11 am service.  If you weren’t there, it was a powerful reminder of the ability of the gospel to restore even the most broken marriages!  Mike and Nancy Sherrill were divorced due to the mess of sin, but after each of them came to know Jesus, they knew they needed to have their marriage restored.  During their vows, I was fighting back tears.  The video of the wedding is attached and worth the watch:

The wedding came on the heels of a good morning of worship.  Christian Burkhardt, our pastor that gives oversight to our children’s ministry, did a really good job of laying out the power and the privilege of parenting.  Even if you aren’t a parent or if you are done parenting and you weren’t here, I would highly encourage you to watch the podcast.  God really allowed him to take an important issue like parenting and bring the Bible to life.

Communities Explanation

Todd Nighswonger explaining
Cornerstone’s view on communities

Transformed

Living Waters Transformed Conference.
You’ll never be lukewarm again.
November 7, 2009 from 8:30am to 12:30pm or 1:30pm to 5:30pm.
Free Admission, Limited Seating.
Guest Speakers: Ray Comfort, Kirck Cameron,
Todd Friel, and Emeal “EZ” Zwayne.

Simi Valley Days

September 9-13, 2009
Rancho Simi Park
1765 Royal Avenue

Simi Valley Days offers us opportunities to celebrate our community. But more importantly it assists individuals and organizations involved in improving the community through a variety of ways and means.
We want to bring special attention to one of Cornerstone’s local partnerships, The Samaritan Center of Simi Valley, which will have a booth at Simi Valley Days this weekend. There will be a raffle giveaway with some amazing prizes (3-day weekend at a cabin in Lake Arrowhead, $150 gift certificate to Mastro’s, gift basket full of prizes, gifts, and certificates). The Samaritan Center is a daytime drop-in that has been providing on-site services since 1994. Serving approximately 200 clients per month, six days a week, the Center is the only facility of this kind in Simi Valley. Their mission is to assist the homeless and near homeless by providing services, resources, opportunities and hope.

We encourage you to attend and bring your family and friends!
A shuttle bus will be available from Royal High School to the Carnival site and will run every 1/2 hour. For more information on Simi Valley Days, visit www.simivalleydays.com.

WE MUST PRAY

What a great privilege we have to pray. Prayer allows us to examine our heart, and yield ourselves to God unreservedly. We must pray in times of adversity, unless we become faithless and unbelieving.
We are to pray in times of prosperity, unless we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, unless we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, unless we become self-sufficient. No matter when or why we are led to pray; pray, believing, with this promise of our Savior in mind, “What things you desire, when you pray, believe that you will receive them, and you shall have them” (Mark 11:24). And the exhortation from James 5:16 “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”