The Church of Christ the Cornerstone

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Author: Robin.Kyd

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Lent Study: ‘The Mystery of Everything’

‘The Mystery of Everything’ is a new and original Lent course by Hilary Brand, which takes the multi-award winning film about Stephen Hawking, ‘The Theory of Everything’, as its starting point. The course explores ways in which the mysteries of the universe and of everyday life – and the acceptance that we have more questions than answers – can reinvigorate our faith and spiritual journey. The course is based around five weekly group sessions entitled: ‘The experience of wonder’, ‘The enigma of weakness’, ‘The complexity of relationships’, ‘The encounter with frailty’ and ‘The hope beyond brokenness’.

We shall run two sessions:

Tuesdays, 7.30–9.00 pm, starting on Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Wednesdays, 1.00–2.30 pm, starting on Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Everybody welcome

Prayer of the Week

Prayer of the Week 7 February 2016

Dear God,
thank you for mountain tops and valley bottoms,
days full of sunshine and joy, and days which seem dull and drab.
Thank you for the dying days of winter,
and the promise of spring to come.
Thank you that you are present with us
always and everywhere.

Amen

Prayer of the Week

Prayer of the Week 24 January 2016

Jesus, we are yours.
Gathered together we make up many parts,
but one complete and perfect body.
We are your hands and eyes and ears,
each part valued and indispensable.
Thank you for one another,
and for the gift that each one here brings.
Help us to rejoice in all that, together, we can be
as your body here on earth.

Amen

News / Reflections

Salt of the Earth: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Produced by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland Day 1 – Let the Stone be Rolled away Ezekiel 37:12–14 I am going to open your graves. Psalm 71:19–23 Your power and your righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. Romans 8:15–21 We suffer with him so that we may also be glorified. Matthew 28: 1–10 He...

Prayer of the Week

Prayer of the Week 17 January 2016

Loving God, in your house there is room for everyone.
Help us to strive for a world where everyone has a home that truly meets their needs.
Give us the grace to welcome strangers and refugees.
Give us the insight to see where inequality hurts.
Fill us with courage to do our part.
Save us from being overwhelmed by the scale of the housing crisis,
and show us, O Lord, where to begin.

Amen

Reflections

John Bradley: A Last Word

Dying, and yet we live (2 Corinthians 6:9) I’ve been at death’s door several times but so far found it not wheelchair accessible, but it looks as if this time I might manage it. Frank Sinatra sang that as he faced ‘life’s final curtain’, at least he could say, ‘I did it my way’ and that...

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Storm Frank battered the UK with high winds and heavy rain

Robin Kyd was one of a group of volunteers who manned Reception and kept Christ the Cornerstone open between Christmas and the New Year [and so was John Temple RK]. He worked on the afternoon Storm Frank battered the UK with high winds and heavy rain. His wife Pat had worked the morning shift with Walter...

Prayer of the Week

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

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

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

Prayer of the Week

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

Reflections

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...