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Podcast
Cornerstone Wirral Sermon Podcast
Hosted by Cornerstone Wirral · EN
Welcome to the weekly podcast of Cornerstone Wirral. We are a church based in Merseyside, in the north west of England. For more information head over to cornerstonechurchwirral.org
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The Promise Begins
1w agoTap to summarizeWhat if the whole Bible is telling one story? In the opening sermon of our summer series, The Promised Seed, we begin in Genesis 3, where everything changes. Humanity rebels against God, sin enters the world, and creation is fractured. Yet right in the middle of humanity's darkest moment, God makes an astonishing promise. A Seed is coming. One who will crush the serpent, defeat evil and bring restoration. As we trace that promise through the Old Testament, one question keeps echoing: "IS THIS THE ONE?" Every generation waited. Every story pointed forward. Every hope looked ahead. Until Jesus.
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Do You Well to Be Angry?
2w agoTap to summarizeThe book of Jonah ends in an unexpected way. After the miraculous repentance of Nineveh, we might expect celebration. Instead, we find an angry prophet sitting outside the city, frustrated that God has shown mercy to his enemies. Why? Because Jonah 4 isn't simply exposing Jonah's heart. It's exposing ours. In this sermon, we walk through the final chapter of Jonah, showing how anger, bitterness and a love of comfort can quietly become bigger than our love for God. Yet the story doesn't leave us in despair. Jonah points us beyond himself to Jesus, the greater Jonah, who didn't run from His enemies but gave His life to save them. Whether you're wrestling with anger, struggling to forgive, or simply wanting to grow in Christlikeness, this passage invites us to marvel again at God's mercy and to reflect that same mercy to others. In this message: • Why Jonah was angry at God's mercy • How our emotions can begin to dictate our worship • The danger of loving comfort more than people • How God's discipline is an expression of His grace • Why Jesus is the greater Jonah
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Responding, Repenting, Relenting
3w agoTap to summarizeWhat happens when God calls again? Jonah has run from God, been pursued by grace, rescued from the depths and given a second chance. Now the word of the Lord comes to him again: “Arise, go to Nineveh.” This time, Jonah responds. But the greatest surprise in Jonah 3 is not the prophet’s obedience. It is what God does through one reluctant and imperfect messenger. The people of Nineveh, from the least to the greatest, believe God, turn from their evil ways and cry out for mercy. And God relents. In this message, Matt Hadfield explores a chapter full of second chances, unlikely repentance and extraordinary mercy. We discover that God delights to use imperfect people to reach unlikely people, and that our ability, our capacity and even our past failures do not discount us from joining His mission. In this sermon: • Why God gives Jonah a second call • What true repentance looks like • The real miracle at the heart of Jonah • Why no one is beyond the reach of God’s mercy • How God uses imperfect people for His glory • Why obedience means trusting God with our safety, security and comfort • How Jonah points us to Jesus, the true and better missionary The Lord delights in pursuing stiff-necked people. He delights in second chances. He delights in saving unlikely people. And He delights in sending imperfect people to bless others. So go. Trust that God is already at work in the people and places He is calling you towards.
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God Help Me!
4w agoTap to summarizeHave you ever reached the end of yourself? Jonah has. After running from God's call, Jonah finds himself in the belly of a great fish. It's dark, hopeless and completely beyond his control. Yet it is there, in the depths, that Jonah discovers one of the greatest truths in the Bible: "Salvation belongs to the LORD." (Jonah 2:9) In this message we discover that before God works through His people, He often works deeply within them. Sometimes the storms and seasons we would never choose become God's school of grace, teaching us that His mercy reaches deeper than our failures. Whether you're weary, struggling, or simply wondering what God is doing in your life, Jonah 2 reminds us that God hears the cry of desperate sinners and delights to rescue those who call on Him. In this sermon: • Why God sometimes works on the messenger before the mission • What Jonah discovers about grace in the depths • The idols that keep us from experiencing God's mercy • Why "Salvation belongs to the LORD" is the heartbeat of Jonah • How Jonah points us to Jesus, the greater and better Jonah
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Running from God
Jun 21Tap to summarizeJonah isn't primarily about a fish. It's about a relentlessly merciful God. When God calls Jonah to take His message to Nineveh, Jonah heads in the opposite direction. Yet even in Jonah's rebellion, God refuses to let him go. Through storms, pagan sailors and a great fish, we see that God's mercy is always moving towards people who are moving away from Him. In this opening sermon of our Jonah series, we discover: • Why mission begins with God, not us. • How comfort can quietly become an idol. • Why God's storms are often acts of mercy. • How Jesus is the true and better Jonah. • Why we can go with confidence, knowing God is already at work. Before Jonah ever reached Nineveh, God's mercy was already moving. And before we speak to our neighbours, friends and family, God's mercy is already moving there too.
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Where Do You Boast?
Jun 7Tap to summarizeAfter thirteen weeks of journeying through Paul's letter to the Galatians, we arrive at his final words, and they take us to the very heart of the Christian faith. Paul's conclusion is wonderfully simple: boast in nothing except the cross of Jesus Christ. In a world that tells us to build our identity on performance, success, reputation, or even our own religious efforts, the gospel invites us to find our confidence in Christ alone. In this sermon we explore: 📖 Why Paul takes the pen himself at the end of the letter ✝️ Why the cross stands at the centre of the Christian life ❤️ The subtle danger of legalism and self-righteousness 🌱 What it means to become a new creation in Christ 🙌 How the grace of God frees us from striving and leads us into joyful obedience As Martin Luther said of Galatians: ”This is the truth of the gospel... It is most necessary that we should know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually.” Our prayer is that this series has done exactly that, fixing our eyes once again on Jesus Christ, His finished work, and the freedom that belongs to all who trust in Him. ”But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 6:14)
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The War We Feel
May 24Tap to summarizeWhat do you do when you genuinely love Jesus… and yet still feel the pull of sin? In Galatians 5, Paul reminds us that the Christian life involves a real war between the flesh and the Spirit. But the struggle itself is not proof that God has abandoned you, it is often evidence that the Spirit is at work within you. In this sermon we explore: • The battle every believer feels • Why legalism and rebellion both lead back into slavery • What it means to “walk by the Spirit” • Mortification and vivification, putting sin to death and coming alive to God • The fruit the Spirit grows in those who abide in Jesus The Christian life is not about trying harder to earn God’s love. It's learning to live from the love already given to us in Christ.
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Set Free By Christ
May 17Tap to summarizeWhat does real Christian freedom actually look like? In Galatians 5, Paul reminds the church that Jesus did not save us so that we would return to slavery, whether through legalism or self-rule. We have been set free by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. But freedom in Christ is not freedom to live however we want. It is freedom to walk with Jesus, love one another, and live by the Spirit. In this sermon we explore: • The danger of adding to the gospel • Legalism vs licentiousness • What it means to truly walk in freedom • Why grace leads to love and obedience • The battle between the flesh and the Spirit • How the gospel transforms us from the inside out JESUS + NOTHING = EVERYTHING
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Stop Going Back To Your Old Ways
May 10Tap to summarizeIn this sermon from Galatians 4:8–31, we explore Paul’s loving but urgent plea to believers who were drifting back into slavery after being set free by the gospel. The Galatians had begun believing that salvation was not simply Jesus alone, but Jesus plus performance, law, religion, and rule-keeping. Paul reminds them, and us, that in Christ we are no longer slaves, but sons and daughters adopted into the family of God. This passage exposes the “little g gods” we still run to for identity, comfort, control, and approval, and calls us back to the freedom, joy, and security found in knowing God and being known by Him. Through the story of Hagar and Sarah, Ishmael and Isaac, Paul contrasts two ways of living: ‣ slavery or freedom, ‣ flesh or promise, ‣ performance or grace.
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From Slavery to Sonship
May 3Tap to summarizeDo you know who you are? In Galatians 3:23–4:7, Paul takes us from life under the law to life as sons of God. Once we were captive, held under the law, unable to make ourselves right. But through Jesus, everything has changed. Christ has redeemed us. The debt has been paid. And now, through faith, we are no longer slaves… but sons. In this sermon we explore: • The purpose of the law and why it cannot save • What it means to be redeemed by Christ • The difference between living as a slave and living as a son • How we drift into performance and forget the gospel • What it means to cry, “Abba, Father” We don’t earn our place in God’s family. We receive it. The Christian life isn’t about trying harder, it’s about trusting what Christ has already finished.
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