Sunday morning livestream

Oct 26, 2025    Joe Brumfield

This message confronts us with a challenging truth: Jesus as our cornerstone offers us two stark choices—to be broken or to be crushed. Drawing from Matthew 21 and 22, we encounter Jesus telling parables that force religious leaders to see themselves clearly. The vineyard owner who sends servants, then his son, mirrors God's patient pursuit of relationship with humanity. Yet the tenants reject, beat, and kill the messengers—a pattern that continues when they refuse to acknowledge the cornerstone itself. Here's the piercing question we must answer: Will we willingly break ourselves against Christ, allowing Him to reshape and rebuild us according to His design? Or will we resist His authority until the weight of that same cornerstone crushes us? The invitation is clear but demanding. God prepares a wedding banquet and calls us in from the streets, but He also expects us to come properly clothed—not in our own righteousness, but transformed by genuine submission to His Son. We cannot claim the grace of Christ while refusing the lordship of Christ. This isn't about earning salvation through perfection; it's about the ongoing, honest work of conforming our lives to the image of the One who has all authority. The cornerstone stands firm whether we align ourselves to it or not. The question is: which side of that reality will we be on?