Author: Robin.Kyd

Sermon for Trinity Sunday (7 June 2020)

By Revd George Mwaura Bible readings for Trinity Sunday: Psalm 8 and Mathew 28: 16–20 Mission impossible Let us pray together: Jehovah God, you are known to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and you live and reign in the perfect unity of love. Hold us firm in this faith, that we may know you...

Prayer of the Week Trinity Sunday, 7 June 2020

Merciful God: we cry out to you in these anxious times:
where things have gone horribly wrong, and your people and church are filled with sadness and pain,
we pray that you will manifest yourself in your everlasting love.
Where people are at loggerhead or locked in a stalemate, speak to them,
and take them away from the paths of war and destruction.
Where your church is persecuted and people forbidden from speaking your name,
reach out to them in their darkness and be revealed as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,
for you are always with us all the time, every place and you are the God of Hope.
We pray that the earth will be filled with your knowledge and wisdom
and that your light will envelope the earth dispelling darkness and evil in Jesus’ name.
Amen

Evening Prayer Saturday, 6 June 2020

A reading from the First Book of Chronicles 10 David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, ‘Praise be to you, Lord,   the God of our father Israel,   from everlasting to everlasting. 11 Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power   and the glory and the majesty and the splendour,   for everything in heaven...

Morning Prayer Saturday, 6 June 2020

A reading from the Book of Job 12 ‘Have you ever given orders to the morning,   or shown the dawn its place, 13 that it might take the earth by the edges   and shake the wicked out of it? 14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;   its features stand out like those of a garment. 15 The...

Evening Prayer Friday, 5 June 2020

Lord, as we arrive at the close of another Friday under restriction, we come to you in praise and prayer. Thank you, Lord, for the beauty of our environment: the colour, sound and movement of flower, leaf and chirpy birds. We can absorb them all in detail at the approach of sunset. A Psalm of Praise...

Morning Prayer Friday, 5 June 2020

Good morning friends! God is good? All the time. Praise God for his wonders and mercy, even in the middle of chaos! How wonderful to wake up to a new day with endless promises ahead as well as challenges. Let’s commit our day, hopes, dreams and worries to the Lord in prayer…. Gracious God, when our...

Evening Prayers Thursday, 4 June 2020

The Power of Prayer For if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Romans 8: 25 Unfortunately, due to the corona virus pandemic, we face more serious challenges than usual in our lives. In order to cope we need to pray earnestly. Some people might not know how to...

Morning Prayers Thursday, 4 June 2020

Lord, I Believe; Help Thou My Unbelief 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that...

Morning Prayers Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Good morning Cornerstone friends, I trust that you are refreshed from a good night of untroubled sleep A prayer of Chinese workers Humbly, simply, early in the day we come to praise God’s kindness and his great mercy. We beg him to pity our distress, and grant forgiveness for all our wrongs. So as we worship,...

Evening Prayers Pentecost Sunday, 31 May 2020

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our prayers for the evening of Pentecost. Many of our hymns remind us more clearly than I can of the impact God’s Spirit makes in our lives. We begin by listening to, or joining in with the singing of the song, ‘Spirit of God, unseen as the wind’, an excerpt from...

Holy Communion for Pentecost (Sunday, 31 May 2020)

[The sound recording here contains all the words, and music for the complete service. You can read the words by scrolling down, as the service progresses. Please join in the responses in bold, as well as the hymns.] [The video recordings of all the music for this service can be viewed at: http://www.cornerstonemk.co.uk/music-videos-for-pentecost/.]   Introit Come,...

Prayer of the Week Pentecost 31 May 2020

Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life
to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit.
Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel,
that it may reach to the ends of the earth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen

Evening Prayers Saturday, 30 May 2020

A reading from Psalm 92 1 It is good to praise the Lord   and make music to your name, O Most High, 2 proclaiming your love in the morning   and your faithfulness at night, 3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre   and the melody of the harp. 4 For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord;   I sing...

Morning Prayers Saturday, 30 May 2020

Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily stage of duty run; shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. A reading from Psalm 57 1 Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me,   for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings...