Author: Robin.Kyd

Evening Prayer Friday, 3 July 2020

Good Evening, everybody. Welcome to our Friday evening prayer time. In our church, we often light a candle on the dais or the altar table during services and in normal times, though not at present, candles are available in the chapel for people to light if they wish when they come to pray. Some people find...

Morning Prayer Friday, 3 July 2020

  On this first Friday morning of the new month, let us raise our eyes and drink deeply of God’s new day. O Lord your glory is revealed in the morning. From the first glint of light on the pink-tinged hydrangea to the gentle whisper of the rising breeze as it stirs the stately bamboo. The...

Evening Prayer Thursday 2 July 2020

A reading from the Prophet Isaiah 25 ‘To whom will you compare me?   Or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:   who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one   and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great...

Morning Prayer Thursday, 2 July 2020

How to Have a Good Day Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears...

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 1 July 2020

Good morning, good Cornerstone friends. Are you sparkling, even if it is dull weather and rain today? Welcome to a new month. I hope you are not too jaded to join us in our prayers this morning. The Lord, the mighty God has spoken and called the world from the rising of the sun to its...

Evening Prayer Sunday, 28 June 2020

Our Gospel reading this morning reminded us of the importance of hospitality, of welcoming strangers. Jesus says that in so doing, we welcome God. At present, we are not able to welcome strangers to our church in the way we have been used to. So it is left to us as individuals to consider how best...

Holy Communion for Sunday, 28 June 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, 28 June 2020

By Revd George Mwaura Jeremiah 28: 5–9; Matthew 10: 40–42 What are you worth? Let us pray together: Gracious God we pray that you would open our ears to hear your word and know your voice. Speak to our hearts and strengthen our wills, that we may serve you today and always in Jesus’ name. Amen A]...

Prayer of the Week 28 June 2020

Living God, your Spirit draws us into your presence,
and so we gather in our own homes and houses,
drawn by love and upheld by grace to encounter Jesus, our Saviour.
We know him as our master and our friend.
In him we see you and know your love that sent him to us.
Spirit, Son and Father, we draw close in faith
to offer our praise and worship and we thank you for all the welcome we receive.
Help us to be always welcoming.
Amen

Evening Prayer Friday, 26 June 2020

Welcome to our prayer time this evening. We begin our time together with a hymn from the Taizé Community, ‘Bless the Lord, my soul.’ Click the link below / in the written version of the prayers; you should be able to skip the adverts, and press ‘esc’ at the end to return to the rest of...

Morning Prayer Friday, 26 June 2020

Good morning, Cornerstone Christians! Let us greet the day in prayer. Thank you, Lord, for protection through the night and the splendid morning light. The beauty all around I see, crafted from glory as if just for me. Here’s a poem to celebrate the day: Have you caught the sunrise in CMK? Have you splashed in...

Evening Prayer Thursday, 25 June 2020

A reading from Psalm 133 1 How good and pleasant it is   when God’s people live together in unity! … 3 It is as if the dew of Hermon   were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing,   even life for evermore. Psalm 133: 1 & 3 NIV® We pray for unity in your Church...

Morning Prayer Thursday, 25 June 2020

Smashed Rainbows The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34: 17–18 NIV® The Psalms have been valued throughout the history of the Church. Martin Luther said, ‘in the Psalms we look...

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Good morning, Cornerstone friends. I hope you are all ready for a hot summer day after our time of reflection. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel who has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty Saviour born of the house of his servant David. Through...

Prayer of the Week 21 June 2020

Eternal God, in Christ you have sought us with a shepherd’s heart,
and we have rejoiced to be found and restored.
Multiply in all the world the wonders of your saving grace,
and gather your scattered people until heaven resounds in jubilation
at humanity made whole and creation restored.
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