Author: Robin.Kyd

Thank you, God, for the wonder of your creation; for taking such care of us. Help us to remember: each of us matters to you; you hurt when we hurt; you rejoice when we feel happy and fulfilled; you are saddened when we neglect you and neglect others. As we approach Mothering Sunday this weekend, we...

Good morning, Friends of Christ the Cornerstone! Stretch and breathe deeply of the early air, fling open the curtains on our still-damp world and praise God for this gift of a fresh new day! Preserving God, who holds us close in the darkness of night, stay close to us in all we undertake today. Give us...

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...

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...

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...