Author: Robin.Kyd

Evening Prayer Friday, 17 July 2020

As we come to the end of another week, I imagine we will all have much thank God for – people who have touched our lives, experiences which have brought joy or blessings to us, people who have thought of us, contacted us or prayed for us. So, this evening, I thought I would provide an...

Morning Prayer Friday, 17 July 2020

Sometimes you just want to run away – not from the danger of contagion, nor from the dangers of the dark. Will nothing ever change? Will the Archers never have a full cast of characters again? Sometimes the monotony of one day merging into another makes you yearn to be somewhere – anywhere – that is...

Evening Prayer Thursday, 16 July 2020

A reading from Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe – as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 7 So neither the one who plants...

Morning Prayers Thursday, 16 July 2020

He Knows My Name I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27: 13 NIV® When you choose to see things from God’s perspective, it changes how you feel. The only thing keeping your old negative feelings in place is your thinking. As he...

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Good morning, Cornerstone friends. Today is St Swithun’s day. Swithun was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester who died in 862. He was a loving pastor and humble, asking to be buried in the common burial ground. He was so venerated that, later, the cathedral authorities moved his remains into the cathedral building, to make a shrine...

Music to End the Day Sunday, 12 July 2020

Hello, everyone. As you can imagine, it has been a real sadness for me during this lockdown period not to be able to make music with friends and colleagues (choirs, solo singers, instrumentalists), which in normal times forms such an important part of my weekly routine. So it has been a real joy and solace to...

Holy Communion for Sunday, 12 July 2020

[The complete Service is contained in one video file. The musical prelude and postlude are each in their own video file, at top and bottom of this post. The words of the service, hymns, readings and intercessions are all included in the video of the Service, but not the words of the Sermon by Revd George Mwaura; if...

Sermon for Sunday, 12 July 2020

By Revd George Mwaura Isaiah 55: 10–13; Matthew 13: 1–9 & 18–23 The art of listening Creator God, you who set the stars in the heavens and causes the sun to rise and set, we pray that you will shed the light of your wisdom in the darkness of our collective minds by the power of your...

Prayer of the Week 12 July 2020

Gracious God, we thank you that all good gifts come from you.
We thank you for all you have already given us.
And, as the good soil welcomes the seed, and causes it to grow,
we welcome you to take root and flourish in our lives
enabling us to listen, to learn and to act in Jesus’ name.
Amen

Evening Prayer Friday, 10 July 2020

Good evening, everyone. As we draw towards the close of the day, I’d like us to begin our prayer time by listening to an evening hymn. Please click on the link below to join in with or listen to the congregation of Durham Road Baptist Church, Gateshead as they sing, ‘The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is...

Morning Prayer Friday, 10 July 2020

Good morning, my friends of Christ the Cornerstone. Rise to meet this fresh new day. The rain is past and nature renewed. Let us praise God with a Psalm: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing psalms to your name, Most High, to declare your love in the morning and your faithfulness...

Evening Prayer Thursday, 9 July 2020

A reading from Psalm 95 1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;   let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving   and extol him with music and song. 3 For the Lord is the great God,   the great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are the...

Morning Prayer Thursday, 9 July 2020

Celebrating Diversity without Addressing Disparity is Hypocrisy We need other human beings to help us to be human. We are made for interdependence, for complementarity. We are made for family, the human family, God’s family. Let us make sure that we value every member of it. Preface by John Sentamu (former Bishop of Birmingham, recently retired...

Holy Communion for Sunday, 5 July 2020

[There are four separate recordings here for this Service. The first is an audio recording of the first part of the Service. Below that is the text of that part of the Service, so that you can scroll down to follow the words. The sermon is a video, but the text is not available, and concludes...

Prayer of the Week 5 July 2020

O God, teach us the hidden wisdom of the Gospel,
so that we may hunger and thirst for holiness,
work tirelessly for peace,
and be counted among those who seek first the blessedness of your kingdom.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen