Prayer of the Week 31 January 2016
Starmaker God,
Lightener of the world,
bless us
and warm us
into light and loving.
Bring us to the light of Jesus
all the length and breadth
of our nights and days.
Amen
Author: Robin.Kyd
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
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 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
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...
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 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
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...
