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Patient Bible teaching for ordinary faith.
Cornerstone Church GR - 84th St. Campus offers patient Bible teaching shaped around the Gospel of John, Holy Week, and the work of following Jesus. Sermons and Beyond the Weekend conversations move from close reading to ordinary application with warmth, humor, and pastoral care.
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Cornerstone Church GR - 84th St. Campus presents a steady stream of Bible teaching and follow-up reflection from a church context. Its recent center of gravity is the Eyes Wide Open series through the Gospel of John. The show returns again and again to one central question: what changes when a person really sees Jesus? That question gives the sermons a clear spine. Ken Nash often begins with something familiar, funny, or seasonal, then turns the room toward a passage and stays there long enough for the implication to settle. The teaching is warm, but it does not avoid hard material. Palm Sunday becomes a study in disappointed expectations. Easter becomes a direct argument about the resurrection. John 21 becomes a tender look at Peter’s shame, friendship love, and restoration. The Holy Spirit episodes move from doctrine into lived discernment, naming conviction, repentance, courage, and care for others. Beyond the Weekend works as a companion space. Mandy Fowler brings in people such as Ken Nash, Pastor Marcus Schmidt, and Pastor Barb Fay to revisit Sunday material, clarify what was skipped, and keep the conversation close to congregational life. Those discussions are less polished than the sermon feed, but that is part of their usefulness. They let the teaching breathe. Listeners hear how a series is planned, why certain passages were chosen, and how church leaders think about application after Sunday has passed. The show’s rhythm is measured and pastoral. It repeats key ideas without sounding mechanical, often circling back through John’s storytelling, Jesus’ encounters with individuals, and the slow work of spiritual maturity. It is especially suited to Christians who want biblical exposition with practical weight, not quick devotional slogans. The recurring mood is hopeful, but it has room for grief, sin, shame, conflict, and the costly shape of love.
Made for: Best for Christians and spiritually curious listeners who want sermon-centered Bible study with a pastoral, conversational frame. It especially fits people following the Gospel of John, Holy Week themes, or questions about repentance, grace, and discipleship.
What sets it apart: The show pairs Sunday teaching with Beyond the Weekend conversations that revisit what the sermon could not fully cover. That combination gives listeners both the structured clarity of preaching and the slower texture of church leaders thinking through scripture together.
Messages and conversations from Cornerstone Church – 84th St. Campus in Caledonia, Michigan. Thoughtful, down-to-earth content to help you take your next step toward Jesus.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sermons and follow-up conversation make biblical teaching concrete, personable, and closely tied to the practices of congregational life.
Cornerstone Church GR - 84th St. Campus pairs live sermons with a conversational look beyond the pulpit. Ken Nash moves through the Gospel of John by combining close biblical exposition with everyday reference points, humor, and direct questions about Christian practice.
A mullet joke meets the resurrection question, if you like your faith talks with room to laugh.
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A reflective finale finds compassion in John's stories of the Samaritan woman and Judas.
This church podcast closes its Eyes Wide Open series by lingering over what comes after Easter and a season of teaching: the need to remember how Jesus meets people in John's account.
Peter's shame gives way to restoration, and the final call is to feed the sheep.
Cornerstone Church closes its Eyes Wide Open series in John 21 with a focused return to Peter's shame, Jesus' restoration, and the renewed call to feed his sheep.
A conversational Easter sermon that keeps returning to whether Jesus rose from the dead.
Cornerstone Church's Easter sermon rests on one plain question with real stakes: whether Jesus rose from the dead. Ken Nash opens with spring break banter, flurries, crowd guesses, and visual prompts, then narrows the focus to resurrection and a call to repent of sin, follow…
A warm, grounded conversation about the Holy Spirit, openness, and faith lived in community.
Beyond the Weekend takes on the Holy Spirit with a focused reading of John 16, while letting John 14 stay close as a second point of reference.
A pastoral sermon on spiritual wakefulness, the Holy Spirit, and returning to God.
Cornerstone Church's sermon uses a moment from Hoosiers to frame spiritual attention in plain, pastoral terms. Coach Norman Dale getting thrown out so Shooter can step forward becomes a way into the sermon’s central image: the Holy Spirit turning the light back on, helping…
A John 13 sermon that moves from Judas's betrayal toward receiving and giving God's love.
The episode frames John 13 around God's love as something first received and then given, with Ken Nash situating Jesus' teaching within Cornerstone's Eyes Wide Open journey through John's Gospel.
A John 10 sermon that pictures salvation as a gate Jesus invites people to walk through now.
Tom, student ministry lead at Cornerstone, frames salvation as a living passage through Jesus rather than a settled idea to admire from a distance.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
A pastor shares his excitement about returning to preach after a health challenge and introduces a sermon series on worship, starting with the importance of gathering.
Ken Nash leads a Bible study on John 13, focusing on Jesus' command to love one another.
This episode reflects on the fascination with space exploration, from Star Trek to the Apollo 11 moon landing, highlighting the awe and preparation involved in historic rocket launches.
A pastor shares his personal journey of battling aggressive salivary duct cancer, expressing deep gratitude for the support from his church community and emphasizing the importance of faith and connection in navigating life's hardships.
Tom, a student ministry leader at Cornerstone Church, explores how overused Christian terms like 'saved' can lose meaning through semantic satiation.
Pastor Ken of Cornerstone Church GR argues that following Jesus means becoming more like him, not completing a checklist of Christian activities.
Beyond the Weekend closes Cornerstone Church's Eyes Wide Open series with Mandy Fowler and Ken Nash reviewing John 1, John 21, and the Gospel's closing focus on Peter.
Cornerstone Church wraps up its Eyes Wide Open series in John 21.
Ken Nash opens Easter with a guessing game.
This episode explores the emotional journey of Holy Week, emphasizing the importance of slowing down to reflect on the difficult aspects like the cross rather than rushing to celebration.
This Palm Sunday sermon explores the shift from celebratory expectations to disappointment in Jesus' crucifixion, drawing from John 12 to examine what the cross reveals about God.
The Holy Spirit is not something Cornerstone Church can control or “put in a box.”
Truth is not a concept; Jesus says, "the Spirit of truth" will "guide you into all the truth."
This episode explores how to love your enemies through a study of the Gospel of John, focusing on Jesus' teachings in John chapter 13 and their impact on personal transformation.
This episode explores sanctifying grace as part of a series on theological roots, focusing on John Wesley's teachings and how grace shapes faith after conversion.