Author: Robin.Kyd

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our prayer time on Friday evening. In our prayers this evening, in response to the words ‘Loving God,’ I invite you to respond, ‘bring your peace.’ Living God, we feel so small and insignificant in the wonderful world you have created, that we are astounded that you are concerned about each...

Good morning, my Cornerstone family, friends and Friday-morning meaning-seekers! Throw open your curtains and take a look at today. Have you noticed the difference in November light? It has no deep glow from autumn leaves, now mostly gone. The sun, so low in the sky, works hard to pierce the clouds. It’s as if the light...

A reading of Psalm 100 1 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and...

Choose Peace Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. Ephesians 4: 2–3 NIV® Alfred Nobel made a fortune from the invention of dynamite, which changed the course of warfare. Perhaps because of the horrors that...

Good morning, Cornerstone friends. The trees are mostly bare now and we are moving closer to Advent. It feels more like winter, and in a normal year we would be counting shopping days before Christmas. Let us stop thinking of counting and spend time on more important things. Hold not your peace, O God, do not...

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Friday evening’s prayers. Do you remember getting lost? Perhaps this happened to you as a child, or perhaps you remember panicking when a child was lost while in your care. It’s many, many years ago when that last happened to me, but I still recall what it felt like, and even...

Welcome to Friday morning, almost halfway through November. Let us greet the day in prayer. Creator God, we thank you for today and its promise of renewal, its significant hope. May we take up your invitation to live as people of hope, to greet everyone we meet today, online or in the real world, with a...

A reading from Psalm 40 1 I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. 3 He put a new song in my mouth,...

Where to find hope? And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Romans 5: 5 NIV® The announcement of this second lockdown set me thinking on how to approach the situation positively. The word ‘Hope’ came to mind. Hope,...

Good morning on Armistice or Remembrance Day. Some familiar lines from wartime poets: They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. Laurence Binyon When you go home tell...