Author: Robin.Kyd

Welcome to this first Friday of a tier-2 Advent. We’re preparing for Christmas one small, tentative step at a time, in the beginning of winter, amid the rain and the sleet and the cold. Yet still, we can greet the day in hopeful prayer. O Lord we welcome the light of this new day, bringing its...

A reading from the Book of Job Where Wisdom is Found 1 There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined. 2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. … 12 But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell? 13 No mortal comprehends its worth;Vit cannot be found in...

Season of Hope and Light The word ‘Advent’ means ‘coming’ or ‘arrival’. This season marks the beginning of the Church’s year and is celebrated on the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent is significant for three main reasons: we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ; this was His first coming to earth; Jesus provided salvation...

Good morning, Cornerstone friends, wherever you are. This is the last day of lockdown and tomorrow, if you are inclined, you can get back to visiting the shops and doing a few more things that we should not do today. Before then, let us consider some Bible readings and share some prayer time together. The Lord...

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Friday evening’s prayers. The nights really are beginning to draw in now, aren’t they? With the colder temperatures we have felt on some days this week, it seems to me that winter is fast approaching. But that means that Advent draws near too. I remember being told at school that Advent...

Give Thanks Good morning to you all who have come to the Cornerstone to join us in prayer, wherever or whenever you are in the world. You are very welcome on this last Friday in November. This is the day after Thanksgiving, the United States’ national day of gratefulness, celebrated by people of all faiths and...

A reading from Psalm 80 1 Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth 2 before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Awaken your might; come and save us. 3 Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved. 8 You transplanted a...

How to Overcome Discouragement I stood up and said … ‘Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome ….’ Nehemiah 4: 14 NIV® First Find a better Way While rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls, Nehemiah said, ‘I looked things over.’ Realising there were enemies to be defeated and obstacles to overcome, he ‘stationed...

Good morning on Wednesday 25 November, a month to go before Christmas. It is, I guess, going to be a different one from any we have had before. We are waiting to find out which tier we will be in after 2 December, and next Sunday we begin Advent. Blessed be the Lord, for he has...