The Church of Christ the Cornerstone
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Lord, open our lips, and our mouths shall proclaim your praise! Good morning and welcome to this session of morning prayers. Ordinarily, our sister Glynne Gordon-Carter would be bringing us our devotions, but she is a wee bit under the weather. Hold her in your prayers, will you! Opening Prayer Gracious God, we call your holy...
Good morning, Cornerstone friends. Let us spend time together moving closer to our God. Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. For he has strengthened the bars of your gates and blest your children within you. He has established peace within your borders and satisfies you with the finest wheat. He...
Warm greetings, Friends. In the Lutheran Church, the singing of a hymn is introduced not by a simple ‘play over’ of the tune, but more often by a complex elaboration of the melody, either composed or improvised. Bach wrote several hundred such chorale preludes, covering the complete spectrum of the liturgical year. ‘Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sein’...
This Service is conducted by Zoom. Full details on how to access the Zoom Service can be found here. A recording of the Service is available here: Led by: Revd George Mwaura Preacher: Revd Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga Introit The prelude from Prélude, Fugue et Variation by César Franck. Welcome Prayer of the Week God who calls...
Prayer of the Week God who calls us on our journey, as we remember Jesus’ time in the wilderness, help us to cast aside those things that get in the way of hearing your word. Help us to seek you in the places of bounteous beauty and of barren bleakness. Help us to seek you in...
Let’s begin our prayer time this evening by reading again from St Matthew’s Gospel about Jesus’s experience in the wilderness: Jesus is Tested in the Wilderness 1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to...
Good morning to you all on this World Day of Prayer, 5 March 2021. Later this morning we will be able to come together as Christ the Cornerstone to mark the Day and also to virtually join others in celebration. When Martin Luther was asked ‘What should move us to pray?’ he replied, ‘God’s command and promise,...
We begin our prayers this evening with the Lenten prayer that forms part of our Lent study materials and that we are using as the Prayer of the Week in our Sunday morning services throughout Lent: Lenten Prayer God who calls us on our journey, as we remember Jesus’ time in the wilderness, help us to...
Third Temptation: To Bow the Knee to Satan Matthew 4: 8–11 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory; and he said to him, ‘All these things will I give you, if you fall down and worship me.’ Matthew 4: 8–9 This...
Good Wednesday morning, Cornerstone friends. We are in March and the blackthorn trees are blossoming with bundles of white flowers. Let us spend some time together before we move on to the rest of our day. Be my strong rock, a fortress to save me, for you are my rock and my stronghold; guide me and...
In St Mark’s Gospel chapter 8, set for the second Sunday of Lent, Jesus declares: ‘Anyone who wants to be a follower of mine must renounce self; he must take up his cross and follow me. Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the...
Woven – Lent 2: On the Mountaintop By Revd George Mwaura Psalm 22: 23–24 & Mark 9: 2–9 Lord speak to us through the words of my mouth and the meditations of your people. Open the scriptures wide so that we may behold your glory that sustains us in the valleys where we live. Amen I...
‘Christ in the desert’ – is the first thing that I worked on seriously, I drew it with tears and blood …, it is the result of my deep suffering … the result of many years of searching …. Ivan Kramskoy, artist On this second Friday of Lent, I’d like to share with you this painting,...
Good morning to all of you who come to Christ the Cornerstone for prayer as February draws to a close, as the time of seclusion moves on in slow stages towards increasing community. Let us begin with thanks to God who has brought us safely to the light of day, beginning with words from Psalm 22....
A reading from Psalm 22 23 You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honour him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel! 24 For he has not despised or scornedthe suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help. 25 From you...
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