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Faithful and loving God, we do not always feel like rejoicing.
Even as we gather to worship you, our minds are sometimes distracted and elsewhere,
weighed down by the burdens of our lives.
Help us, in this moment, to find it within our hearts
to REJOICE in your constancy and loving care for us
for we know you love us immensely.
Amen
Last Sunday, we celebrated Harvest. I don’t know how you felt, but if, like me, you joined the service on the internet, rather than in church, it may have seemed very strange not to be in the Worship Area, looking towards a Harvest display. Before we moved to Milton Keynes thirty years ago, I had always...
Good morning on this fresh autumn day! We can be thankful for the refreshment of night, the soft October light, the crisp chill of early day and the excitement of a busy Friday just beginning. Give thanks to the Lord for she is good and her mercy endures forever. Her unfailing love reaches to the heavens,...
A reading from Peter’s First Letter 1 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them – not because you must, but because you are willing,...
Renewing our Minds Morning by morning He wakens me and opens my understanding to His will. Isaiah 50: 4b The season of autumn is typically one of new beginnings and fresh starts. Children going to school for the first time; many advancing from primary to secondary school; first-year university students looking forward to beginning their programme...
Good morning Cornerstone friends. It looks like being a dry day after all that wind and rain over the weekend. A number of my favourite dog walks are now under several inches of water so my morning choices are limited. I hope that all of you are not feeling too limited in your life and activities....
Good evening, friends. As I’m sure you know, the great Italian film composer Ennio Morricone died recently at the age of 91. One of his best-known scores was created for the 1986 film ‘The Mission’, with Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons. ‘Gabriel’s Oboe’ is the film’s main theme. It is most prominently used when Jesuit...
Led by Revd George Mwaura Introit: As water to the thirsty As water to the thirsty, as beauty to the eyes, as strength that follows weakness, as truth instead of lies, as summertime and springtime and summertime to be, so is my Lord, my living Lord, so is my Lord to me. Like calm in place...
Opportunism or Opportunity? Isaiah 5: 1–7 and Mathew 21: 33–46 Lord we thank you for the gifts of creation. As we listen to your word, open the ears of our hearts so that we may hear and learn that faithful servanthood in the vineyard which is this world. Amen A few years ago, I watched a...
Loving God, we come to you in gratitude.
We are all so different, each our own being; and yet you love and care for us all.
You nurture and protect us.
How can we not be thankful to you for all that the journey with you offers!
We thank you that you guide us, in unexpected ways, to find the right way in life.
We thank you that when we wander, you draw us back to you,
give us new direction and encourage us to follow where you lead.
We thank you that the pains of life can be overshadowed by the joy of walking with you.
For all these blessings and more, we give you thanks and praise.
Amen
In 2007, the United Nations agreed to adopt 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, as the International Day of Non-Violence. So, on this Friday evening, I will use some words of Gandhi to inform our prayers. Let us pray: Loving God, as we come to you in prayer this evening, we thank you for all that...
Good Morning on this first Friday in October when we welcome a time of change and movement, a time of completion and soft morning light. Let us greet the Lord as we begin the day. Great Creator and Preserver of Life, we thank you for the restful night and the opportunity brought by this morning’s light....
A reading from Psalm 19 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. 7 The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. 8 The precepts...
Readings for Harvest As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and Winter, day and night will never cease. Genesis 8: 22 NIV® There are a number of psalms in the Bible which celebrate the Harvest Festival. Thanksgiving psalms express praise to God who hears and forgives faults, blesses and saves;...
Good morning on this last day of September. It is Michaelmas, a church feast with a secular marking of the end of a quarter of the year and a traditional time for paying agricultural rents and preparing for winter. It feels a bit like winter after the warm weather we have had earlier in September. As...
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