Author: Robin.Kyd

Evening Prayer Friday, 28 May 2021

Good evening, everyone. As we approach Trinity Sunday I’m going to start this evening’s prayer time with a hymn of praise to God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The words are below to enable you to join in if you wish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLLghU0_5I 1 Born in song! God’s people have always been singing. Born in song! Hearts...

Morning Prayer Friday, 28 May 2021

Live in My Love – John 15: 9–17 Good morning to all who are preparing to get started on this last Friday in May with a holiday on Monday to anticipate, a week away from school to look forward to. Let’s praise God for the goodness of this new day. Glorious God thank you for the...

Evening Prayer Thursday, 27 May 2021

A reading from Paul’s letter to the Romans Life through the Spirit 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do...

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Good morning, good Cornerstone people. We are back worshipping in church but not yet all singing. The sun comes up, there’s a new day dawning, it’s time to sing your song again. Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me, let me be singing when the evening comes. Remember not against us our former sins; let...

Sermon for Sunday, 23 May 2021 Pentecost

By Revd George Mwaura Psalm 104: 24–33, Acts 2: 1–4 and John 20: 19–23 God of new beginnings, come, descend among us, and renew our faith and hope by your Spirit, we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen It feels so good to come here and share fellowship with you today. But I am also very conscious...

Music to End the Day for Sunday, 23 May 2021 Pentecost

Dear Friends, We begin our musical sequence for Pentecost Sunday with the beautiful Aria from Bach’s Variations written for the keyboard player Johann Goldberg.  Goldberg was a student of Bach.  He was also musician to the Russian Ambassador to the Electoral Court of Saxony, and told Bach that he was often required to play late into the night...

Holy Communion for Sunday, 23 May 2021 Pentecost

This Service will be on Zoom at 10.00 am. Join the Zoom meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85941021452?pwd=SXFGY1ZDQ2MraWhTYlcvRjJpM0Uvdz09 Meeting ID: 859 4102 1452 Passcode: 434821 Led by Ian Trimnell Preacher: Revd George Mwaura Celebrant: Revd Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga Gathering music Welcome There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, for he has made us righteous, and...

Prayer of the Week 23 May 2021

Spirit of God, come to us now,
so that, in this time of Pentecost,
the sparkling light of faith,
the rushing wind of hope
and the joyful sound of praise
may echo round the world,
may echo in the church, and find their response in us.
Amen

Evening Prayer Friday, 21 May 2021

I wonder how you may be feeling about coming out of lock-down. Perhaps, like me, you have had a quite different experience during the last year or so, and have got used to life at a slower pace. Or you may be itching to get back to those activities which you have really missed for the...

Morning Prayer Friday, 21 May 2021

Hush! Can you hear the Spirit? Hello and welcome to morning prayer on another day of showers and sunshine with expectation of some strong gusting winds. Let us praise the Lord together! Thank you, O God, for the breaking of this new day, for the light and warmth brought by the dawn, for the sound of...

Evening Prayer Thursday, 20 May 2021

A reading from Psalm 33 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. 13 From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; 14 from his dwelling-place he watches all who live on earth – 15 he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. 16 No king...

Morning Prayer Thursday, 30 March 2021

God’s Peace The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your mind in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4: 7 The Hebrew word translated ‘peace’ in the Old Testament is ‘shalom’, meaning wholeness. The uncut stones from which Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal were literally ‘shalom stones’ (Joshua 8: 31). The...

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Good morning Cornerstone friends. I hope you find this morning refreshed from sleep and ready for the day. When you join in these thoughts and prayers I shall be miles away in Sussex near where I grew up, to visit my brother and family and places of my childhood near the South Downs, but close enough...

Choral Evensong for Ascensiontide Sunday, 16 May 2021

Led by Revd Tim Norwood Music before the Service: Andante in C for flute W.A. Mozart (1778) K 315/285e performed by Abigail Burrows (flute) Adrian Boynton (piano) Introit God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the trumpet. O sing praises unto our God. O sing praises unto our King....

Service of the Word for Sunday, 16 May 2021

This Service will be by Zoom at 10.00 am. Click this link to join the Service: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83042102692?pwd=WlZDdlp0VUZER2twcCtKblkzOXNDUT09 Meeting ID: 830 4210 2692 Passcode: 177645 Led by Revd Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga Welcome Prayer of the Week God of yesterday, tomorrow and today, we are children of the world you love and care for. We praise you, heavenly Father, for...