Prayer of the Week 10 January 2016
Turn us around, God,
around into your way of thinking,
around into your way of loving.
Turn us around, God,
and confront us with Jesus,
baptise our fears with your joy.
Amen
Author: Robin.Kyd
Prayer of the Week 3 January 2016
God of grace,
through the mediation of your Son,
you call us into a new covenant.
Help us therefore to draw near with faith
and join ourselves in a perpetual covenant with you;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Prayer of the Week 27 December 2015
Samuel (like Jesus) was at home in the temple,
happy with the gift of his annual new coat
made from cotton of kindness, dyed with compassion,
stitched in forgiveness and decorated in hope.
Lord of Salvation, whose power remakes us,
clothe me in righteousness, fitting for you.
Amen
Prayer of the Week 20 December 2015: Advent 4
We are called to the light from the hard times of darkness
to welcome a world turning upside down,
where the rich ones are humbled and the poor take their places,
where light from one candle is the new light of day.
Lord of Salvation, I believe in your promise
that one obscure birth will bring us exiles home.
Amen
Advent Meditations 2015: Light in Dark Times – Week 4: The Light among us
The Light among us Micah 5:2–5a But from you, Bethlehem in Ephrathah, small as your are among Judah’s clans, from you will come a king for me over Israel, one whose origins are far back in the past, in ancient times. Therefore only until she who is pregnant has given birth will he give up Israel; and then those of...
Prayer of the Week 13 December 2015: Advent 3
The refugee road is filling up now with
outcasts and exiles, stumblers and foreigners,
trailing the Spirit who promises light.
God help us deliver the fruits of repentance:
a candle for welcome instead of disaster,
to live with enough and our spares to be shared.
Lord of Salvation who quashed my conviction
help us live like one people who are guilty no more.
Amen
Advent Meditations 2015: Light in Dark Times – Week 3: Glimpses of Light
Glimpses of Light Philippians 4:4–8 I wish you joy in the Lord always. Again I say, all joy be yours. Be know to everyone for your consideration of others. The Lord is near; do not be anxious, but in everything make your requests known to God in prayer and petition with thanksgiving. Then the peace of God, which is beyond...
Prayer of the Week 6 December 2015: Advent 2
This journey can be rough in the dark time:
without lamp or compass but accompanied by guilt.
John said to fill up the valleys, level the mountains,
become smooth and straight and ready for rescue.
Lord of Salvation, save us from darkness.
Come live in my heart, be my beacon, my light.
Amen
Advent Meditations 2015: Light in Dark Times – Week 2 The Hope of Light
The hope of light Malachi 3:1–4 I am about to send my messenger to clear a path before me. Suddenly the Lord, whom you seek, will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight is here, here already, says the Lord of Hosts. Who can endure the day of his coming? Who...
Prayer of the Week 29 November 2015: Advent 1
Here we are, Lord, on the edge of the future,
alert to the signs in events of today –
prejudice, poverty, terror, oppression.
What space in the hard times to welcome new birth?
Lord of Salvation, come to our rescue.
Help me light a candle in defiance of the dark.
Amen
Advent Meditations 2015: Light in Dark Times – Week 1 Are We in a Land without Light?
Are we in a land without light? Jeremiah 33:14–16 The days are coming, says the Lord, when I shall bestow on Israel and Judah all the blessings I have promised them. In those days, at that time, I shall make a righteous branch from David’s line; he will maintain law and justice in the land. In...
Prayer of the Week 22 November 2015
Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
you sent your Son to be our teacher and saviour.
Forgive us when we have not made you our priority,
when we have dismissed your authority in our lives.
Give us grace to turn once more to the ways of your Son.
Help us to listen to your voice and seek your truth,
that we may do justice, love mercy
and walk humbly into your everlasting kingdom.
Amen
Advent Groups
Small groups will be meeting at the church for three weeks starting on 30 November. They will meet at Monday lunch time at 1.00 pm, on Wednesday evening at 7.30 pm and there will also be an early evening group beginning at 5.30 pm if there is demand for this.
The topic for the discussions will be ‘Light in dark times’ and each session will include Bible study, reflection, discussion and prayer.
If you are interested in joining a group please contact Rosemary Goldie or sign up on the sheet in Reception.
Prayer of the Week 15 November 2015
O God, where beauty fades, you do not fail us.
Though all unravels about us, you are still faithful.
Though all that is temporary will cease, your presence is eternal.
Give us your eyes to see what as yet we cannot see.
Give us your wisdom to know what our dreams can only hint at.
Give us your courage to walk with you into our future.
Amen
Prayer of the Week 8 November 2015
Loving God, we look for peace, but find it hard to see.
We look for hope, but find it hard to believe.
We look for love, but find the cost too great.
Help us to know that you believe
that each of us is worth
whatever it might take.
Amen
