Virtual Coffee after Church at 11.00 am Sunday, 29 November 2020
Join us at 11.00 am after our Holy Communion Service when we’ll gather on Zoom to chat.
We’d love to see you.
Bring your own coffee!
Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3meKT4I
Author: Robin.Kyd
Advent Meditation for Advent Sunday, 29 November 2020
By Rt Revd Dr Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham It’s good to be in Cornerstone. This is Advent Sunday, the beginning of a new Christian year, and this year of all years, it’s time for a reboot, not a bailout. Time to reset. In the world’s best-loved movie, Julie Andrews said, we start at the beginning,...
Prayer of the Week Advent Sunday, 29 November 2020
This hectic world is quieter for now, holding its breath as the calendar moves on. We hope for fellowship, but prepare for loneliness. Lord, focus our minds on a different preparation; keep us busy in conversation with you. Amen
Evening Prayer Friday, 27 November 2020
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...
Morning Prayer Friday, 27 November 2020
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...
Evening Prayer Thursday, 26 November 2020
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...
Morning Prayer Thursday, 26 November 2020
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...
Morning Prayer Wednesday, 25 November 2020
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...
Music to End the Day Sunday, 22 November 2020
Good evening, friends. Today is the Feast of Christ the King, the climax of the church’s liturgical year. Next week we begin a ‘new year’ as we enter the season of Advent. The Kingship of Christ is powerfully represented in the image of Jesus hanging from the Cross on Good Friday. In the words of St...
Holy Communion for Sunday, 22 November 2020
Prelude: Andantino from Harpsichord sonata in C by Scarlatti Presided by Revd George Mwaura Preacher: Revd Tim Norwood Introit: Psalm 97 The Lord is King, most high above all earth. [×2] The Lord is King, let earth rejoice, let all the coastlands be glad. His throne is justice and right. The Lord is King, … The skies...
Sermon for Sunday, 22 November 2020
The kingdom of heaven is the most important concept in the preaching of Jesus. It’s one of the most important concepts in the Gospel. And we find Jesus preaching about the kingdom right at the beginning of his ministry, as Matthew records it back in chapter 4. And we find that having heard that John has...
Prayer of the Week 22 November 2020
God the Father,
help us to hear the call of Christ the king
and to follow in his service,
whose kingdom has no end;
for he reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, one glory.
Amen
Evening Prayer Friday, 20 November 2020
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...
Morning Prayer Friday, 20 November 2020
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...
Evening Prayer Thursday, 19 November 2020
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...
