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Welcome to Cornerstone Interactive
Community is something that we hold very dear. Thousands of people have been involved in Cornerstone in some capacity over the last three decades - and are scattered all over the world.
So we hope you enjoy our online Community - a place to connect with those of a similar mindset and passion - to take seriously the Kingdom of God and to live it in all of life!
Make sure you visit our FORUMS to leave your story, ask your questions, and catch up with everyone else.
Cornerstone's official web-page can be viewed at www.cornerstone.edu.au
Contributions are made to our website over which we have no control. We make no representations about the accuracy of information contained in those contributions, nor should any contribution be construed as having received any endorsement or approval by Cornerstone Community Inc. We are not liable for the content contained in those contributions.
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Sue Hodge 2009 Calendars NOW AVAILABLE
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Swan Hill Mini Muster Trip 08
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(Many Cornerstoners will know that when something like a Muster event happens, Muster itself may not be the only event. There's there trip up, then Muster, then the trip back...)
This is the trip back on Coona Bus from Swan Hill Muster 08
An eyewitness account according to his worldview.....
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Podcast: The Courage of the Son Part I
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This talk was recorded during Open Week 2008 at Cornerstone Community’s leadership school.
The speaker is Paul Roe.
Summary: The unwavering determination of Jesus to restore mankind - to model for them what they could and should be, and to break the power that is defacing the image of the Father in them. He is dedicated to establishing a kingdom under the strong hand of the Father.
http://blog.cornerstone.edu.au/podcast/2008/10/13/the-courage-of-the-son-part-1/
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Work it out
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I grew up in the bosom of fundamental Baptist evangelicalism where our “worship” consisted of an excruciating twenty minute rendition of choruses drawn from a genre inspired by the hippy movement of the late 1960s.
As someone who loves to listen to music (though the dirges of the flower children era wouldn’t count amongst my preferred options) but not blessed with a singing voice, this over-simplification of “worship” left me cold and at times guilty.
I felt most alive when throwing myself recklessly into the apparently un-spiritual pursuits of playing rugby or competing in triathlons.
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Les Follent's Middle East adventure
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Les recently had the opportunity to go over to the Middle East and take in Egypt, Jordan and Israel. After lecturing for years on the area and the nation of Israel it was a huge trip for Les to see the places first hand.
Les is posting instalments on the adventure at:
http://interact.cornerstone.edu.au/forum_viewtopic.php?30.5429
Enjoy
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Facebook Fan Page
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Given the poll where most Interactive users have indicated Facebook as their main social networking site of choice we've started a Cornerstone Fan Page over there too.
The link to the Fan Page is:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dubbo-Australia/Cornerstone-Community/8647710238
Please sign up as a member over there and actively encourage friends to do likewise. It is easy to invite people to the fan page via the "share" facility.
There are also major improvements planned for this Interactive page. Watch this space.
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Jensen on Driscoll
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Recently Sydney has had the pleasure of hearing an American preacher, Pastor Mark Driscoll. In a two-week period he spoke in many venues, including the Cathedral.
In the Cathedral he twice addressed a packed gathering of Christian workers. His second address was a challenge to our evangelistic ministry of the gospel in this city. He lovingly told us of eighteen problems that he saw we had. It was an address that has caused some considerable discussion amongst Sydney's evangelical community.
Since that address I have been approached by many people wanting my opinion on Mark Driscoll and in particular on his critique of Sydney's evangelism. As one of those who invited Mark to speak to us, I am keen to keep the conversation going and to ride the enthusiasm that he has engendered amongst the next generation of Christian leaders.
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Praying for rain
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Warwick Marsh, Australian Heart Ministries and Ps Peter Walker, Australian Indigenous Christian Ministries, are undertaking a prayer pilgrimage along the Murray River from the Hume Weir to the Mildura /Wentworth junction of the Murray Darling. This prayer pilgrimage is being supported by the Australian Prayer Network and the Indigenous Prayer Network, Christian groups/churches and individuals all over Australia.
The purpose of the Murray Darling Prayer Pilgrimage is to rally people together to pray for a final end to the drought and for a flood of rain to fill the dams and clean out the Murray Darling River System and avert a human and ecological disaster.
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Big news out of Broken Hill
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Pizza lovers in Broken Hill are set to experience their first taste of Domino’s Pizza, when the conversion of their locally owned and operated Pizza Runners store is completed in mid-October.
Australia’s largest pizza company Domino’s Pizza will open its doors in Broken Hill after work is completed at the new Domino’s outlet in Oxide Street.
The opening will not increase the number of pizza operators in Broken Hill with local Christian Group Cornerstone Community, who have operated the Pizza Runners on Argent Street for the past 20 years, deciding to convert their Pizza Runners to a Domino’s and relocate to a new premises.
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scripture and the Task of the Church
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The confrontation between Christian faith and contemporary culture, between (if you like) Jerusalem and Athens, is as old as the gospel itself. It is rooted in turn in the confrontation between the Old Testament people of God and the surrounding cultures of Egypt, Canaan, Assyrian, Babylon and then, later, Persia, Greece, Syria and eventually Rome.
Indeed, cultural confrontation and the complex negotiations it generated are woven into the very fabric of scripture itself.
Jonathan Sacks, who we so revelled in listening to last night, wrote an article the other day about the way in which languages without vowels, such as Hebrew, tend to go from right to left, driven by right-brain intuition, whereas languages with vowels, such as Greek, tend to go from left to right, as the left-brain passion for getting things worked out accurately drives from that side.
I asked him at dinner whether he’d had any feedback on the article, and he said rather disappointedly that he hadn’t; but he drew the moral, which I now develop, that part of the power of the early Christian faith was to take a right-brain religion such as Judaism and express it within a left-brain language like Greek. (Of course, you could argue that the Rabbis made up for lost left-brain time with the Mishnah and Talmud, but that would be another story.)
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scripture and the story of God's Mission
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So how does the Bible function in the way I have described? Answer: by being itself; and ‘being itself’ means, primarily, being itself as story. I do not mean by this what some have seen as ‘mere story’, that is, a cheerfully fictive account to be relegated to the world of ‘myth’.
The Christian Bible we know is a quite astonishingly complete story, from Chaos to Order, from first creation to new creation, from the Garden to the City, from covenant to renewed covenant, and all fitting together in a way that none of the authors can have seen but which we, standing back from the finished product, can only marvel at. Speaking as a student of ancient literature, I am continually astonished by the shape of scripture, which can’t simply be explained away as the product of some clever decisions by a third-or fourth-century Council.
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God’s Authority and God’s Kingdom
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When we say ‘the authority of scripture’, then, we mean – if we know our business – God’s authority, Christ’s authority, somehow exercised through the Bible. But what is ‘God’s authority’ all about?
To look again at scripture itself, it is clear that one of the most common models assumed by many in today’s world simply won’t do. We have lived for too long in the shadow of an older Deism in which God is imagined as a celestial C. E. O., sitting upstairs and handing down instructions from a great height.
The Bible is then made to fit into the ontological and epistemological gap between God and ourselves; and, if it is the Deist God you are thinking of, that gap has a particular shape and implication. The Bible is then bound to become merely a source-book for true doctrines and right ethics.
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scripture and the Authority of God
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Part One: scripture as the vehicle of God’s authority
Debates about the authority of scripture have tended to get off on the wrong foot and to turn into an unproductive shouting-match. This is partly because here, as in matters of political theology, in the words of Jim Wallis ‘the Right gets it wrong and the Left doesn’t get it’. And sometimes the other way round as well.
We have allowed our debates to be polarized within the false either/or of post-enlightenment categories, so that we either see the Bible as a holy book, almost a magic book, in which we can simply look up detached answers to troubling questions, or see it within its historical context and therefore claim the right to relativize anything and everything we don’t immediately like about it.
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A very modern war that is destroying our children
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Why is it that so many children are suffering from depression? Research conducted by the Children's Society has revealed that more than one-quarter of children aged between 14 and 16 said they felt depressed.
The study also found that one in 10 had been diagnosed with a mental health disorder, experiencing symptoms of severe depression including suicidal thoughts, prolonged bouts of despair and the urge to cry on a daily basis.
The Institute of Psychiatry reports that the number of teenagers with emotional and behavioural problems doubled between 1974 and 1999. Between 1991 and 2001, the number of children prescribed antidepressants in the UK rose by 70%, amid an apparent epidemic of self-harm and eating disorders.
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 Les10 Nov : 09:02 Hey sorry about the dud entries ... had trouble formatting the links in this chat thingo. Mike S, if you can delete these out of the chat list, that would be appreciated!
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Les10 Nov : 08:55 G'day all! The brochure for Muster 2008 is available at [link]http
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Les10 Nov : 08:53 G'day all! The brochure for Muster 2008 is available at [link]http
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airwalk08 Nov : 10:48 G'day Andrew Grant
What's the go with this years CS muster?
matthewds7406 Nov : 23:49 Hi looking to find out info on cornerstone as a college . and could someone email me the prospectus and reg form as the national website is down.
rustynails14 Oct : 14:48 Check Out The Sue Hodge Selection 2009 Calendars. -link-
croe10 Oct : 11:54 it was all purple to me....
airwalk06 Oct : 15:31 The Sea Eagles were lucky to get up yesterday 
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