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Warm Scripture teaching for lived discipleship.
Cornerstone Church GR - Heritage Hill Campus pairs Sunday teaching with reflective conversations from the Cornerstone team. Recent episodes move through John, Holy Week, forgiveness, the Holy Spirit, and the steady question of what seeing Jesus clearly changes.
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Cornerstone Church GR - Heritage Hill Campus is a sermon-centered podcast from a church campus, with a feed that also makes space for Beyond the Weekend conversations. The dominant mode is pastoral teaching. Recent episodes spend sustained time in John, especially through the Eyes Wide Open series, where encounters with Jesus become invitations to see him more clearly. The show does not rush the text. It tends to begin with a concrete image, a church-season moment, or a question that sounds simple until the passage starts pressing on it. Easter is framed around the empty tomb and the claim that the resurrection is not only an event but a person. Palm Sunday and Good Friday are held close together, giving room for celebration, lament, suffering, and humility before arriving at resurrection joy. Sermons on Peter, the Last Supper, forgiveness, and loving enemies keep circling the same pastoral concern: discipleship has to reach the interior life. That means shame, control, resentment, anxiety, and hidden wounds are not treated as side issues. They are brought under Scripture and prayer. The Holy Spirit episodes add another thread, speaking about conviction, comfort, advocacy, guidance, and the way God's presence opens a person's eyes from the inside out. The Beyond the Weekend episodes make the feed feel less like a one-way lecture and more like a church teaching team continuing the conversation. Mandi Fowler, Alex Fernandez, Marcus Schmidt, Barb Fay, and Ken Nash appear in those conversations and sermons with different roles in the life of Cornerstone. Their exchanges are informal, but the purpose stays focused. They ask what did not fit into Sunday, what a passage means in the wider chapter, and how a teaching lands in real lives. The show is earnest without sounding manufactured. It uses personal stories, movie references, family memories, and congregational moments as bridges back to Scripture rather than as the center of attention. Listeners looking for irony, debate, or detached religious analysis will probably find it too church-shaped. Listeners wanting warm biblical teaching, clear Christian conviction, and practical spiritual formation will recognize its lane quickly. Its strength is the steady movement from passage to question to prayer, with enough conversation around the sermon to make the teaching feel lived-in rather than isolated.
Made for: Best for Christian listeners who want sermon-based teaching, especially those drawn to John, Holy Week reflection, forgiveness, and practical spiritual formation. It also suits churchgoers who appreciate follow-up conversations that extend a Sunday message without turning it into debate.
What sets it apart: The feed combines full pastoral sermons with Beyond the Weekend discussions that revisit the same passages in a more conversational way. Its recent emphasis on seeing Jesus clearly in John gives the show a coherent devotional arc rather than a loose collection of standalone talks.
Messages and conversations from Cornerstone Church – Heritage Hill Campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Thoughtful, down-to-earth content to help you take your next step toward Jesus.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Patient Bible teaching meets candid pastoral conversation about forgiveness, suffering, restoration, and the daily shape of following Jesus.
Cornerstone Church GR - Heritage Hill Campus pairs church sermons with Beyond The Weekend conversations that revisit the teaching in a looser, question-led format.
Judas at the table, Peter over breakfast: your unfinished forgiveness conversation has company.
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A focused sermon on Jesus meeting Peter's repeated failure with restoration and renewed calling.
Cornerstone Church closes its 15-week journey through John by lingering in the uneasy territory between failure and restoration. The message treats Jesus' conversation with Peter after the meal as a deliberate reckoning: Peter has denied Jesus three times, and Jesus asks three…
A playful Easter guessing game opens into a direct pastoral question about the empty tomb and the shape of a life.
Alex Fernandez, a Cornerstone pastor who leads the Heritage Hill Campus, opens Easter with a screen-based guessing game that moves from candy and a Peep to an eye and the Garden Tomb.
A measured Holy Week conversation about Good Friday, lament, and a Savior who joins suffering.
Holy Week becomes both the subject and the pace of this single-episode review: the conversation slows before Easter and makes room for fear, anxiety, depression, anger, frustration, and tears.
A gentle, pastoral sermon on the Holy Spirit's conviction, clarity, and freedom from shame.
Barb Fay frames the Holy Spirit as the one who helps people see God's presence and their own inner life more clearly, working from the inside out.
A scripture-led conversation frames forgiveness as inward work shaped by love, hurt, and transformation.
Forgiveness is treated here as inward work before it becomes a visible practice. Alex Fernandez, one of Cornerstone's pastors, talks with Ken Nash, Cornerstone's lead pastor, about the Eyes Wide Open series and its focus on John 13:34, drawing the conversation toward…
A sermon that makes love feel costly at the table where betrayal is already present.
Alex Fernandez centers the sermon on the table where Jesus tells his disciples to love one another while Judas is still present, already marked by betrayal.
A Genesis sermon traces God's pursuit of Abraham and the grace offered to people who falter.
This single-episode review follows a sermon that moves from Genesis' creation story into the harder choices of ordinary life, then settles on Abraham's question of whether God will keep his side of the bargain.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Catholic arguments with pint-table warmth.
Daily headlines under Christian judgment.
Serious Bible questions, patiently reasoned.
Catholic homilies for the next faithful step.
Catholic teaching for ordinary discipleship.
A speaker uses the metaphor of a rocket launch to illustrate the importance of preparation and the beauty of liftoff.
Pastor Alex Fernandez discusses the challenge of shutting off one's mind and shares his experience with sensory deprivation as a spiritual practice, leading into a sermon on the concept of Sabbath rest.
The sermon begins with baptism and an invitation to see it as the beginning of a journey toward Jesus.
Alex Fernandez welcomes those gathered at Cornerstone's Heritage Hill Campus and those listening online, then locates the message within the Eyes Wide Open series.
Cornerstone Church's John 21 sermon centers Peter, a charcoal fire, and Jesus asking three times, 'Do you love me?' The pastor argues that Easter belief is not the same as following Jesus, using the disciples' empty night of fishing on the Sea of Galilee as the setup.
Alex Fernandez's Easter sermon at Cornerstone Church GR Heritage Hill Campus centers on John 20 and four Greek ways of seeing: blepo, theoreo, hereo, and pisteo.
Mandi Fowler, Director of Spiritual Formation at Cornerstone Church, talks with Pastor Marcus Schmidt on Beyond the Weekend about slowing down Holy Week and not rushing past Good Friday.
A Palm Sunday sermon describing Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the celebratory atmosphere.
Mandy Fowler and Pastor Barb Fay discuss the role of the Holy Spirit as described in John 14 and 16, emphasizing its role as an advocate and comforter.
Barb Fay, a Cornerstone Church pastor who oversees small groups, centers Cornerstone Church GR's "God is Closer Than You Think" around John 16 and the Holy Spirit.
Forgiveness is not "forgive and forget"; it is "forgive and remember" without retaliation.
Pastor Alex Fernandez introduces a sermon series on Jesus, focusing on the Last Supper and communion.
Mandy and Tracy discuss the Rooted series' focus on caring for the least of these, exploring Matthew 25 and a common Bible crime with Isaiah 58.
Mandy Fowler and Pastor Alex Fernandez discuss sanctifying grace as part of a series on the theological roots of their non-denominational church, focusing on John Wesley's concept of grace after conversion.