Category: Daily Prayer

A reading from Psalm 16 1 Keep me safe, my God,   for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord;   apart from you I have no good thing.’ 5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;   you make my lot secure. 6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant...

Names are Important Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds Psalm 68: 4 Have you ever wanted to change your name or wondered who you would be without a name? When I was a child my mother told me why I was named Glynne. While attending Bethlehem Teachers’...

Good morning, Cornerstone friends. Are you ready for the day? Let us gather before we all get involved with all the things we have to do today. Today is the feast of St Mary Magdalene and Ernesto has shared us some thoughts about her, written by Fr Richard Rohr, so I need not dwell on it....

As we come to the end of another week, I imagine we will all have much thank God for – people who have touched our lives, experiences which have brought joy or blessings to us, people who have thought of us, contacted us or prayed for us. So, this evening, I thought I would provide an...

Sometimes you just want to run away – not from the danger of contagion, nor from the dangers of the dark. Will nothing ever change? Will the Archers never have a full cast of characters again? Sometimes the monotony of one day merging into another makes you yearn to be somewhere – anywhere – that is...

A reading from Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe – as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 7 So neither the one who plants...

He Knows My Name I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27: 13 NIV® When you choose to see things from God’s perspective, it changes how you feel. The only thing keeping your old negative feelings in place is your thinking. As he...

Good morning, Cornerstone friends. Today is St Swithun’s day. Swithun was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester who died in 862. He was a loving pastor and humble, asking to be buried in the common burial ground. He was so venerated that, later, the cathedral authorities moved his remains into the cathedral building, to make a shrine...

Good evening, everyone. As we draw towards the close of the day, I’d like us to begin our prayer time by listening to an evening hymn. Please click on the link below to join in with or listen to the congregation of Durham Road Baptist Church, Gateshead as they sing, ‘The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is...

Good morning, my friends of Christ the Cornerstone. Rise to meet this fresh new day. The rain is past and nature renewed. Let us praise God with a Psalm: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing psalms to your name, Most High, to declare your love in the morning and your faithfulness...

A reading from Psalm 95 1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;   let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving   and extol him with music and song. 3 For the Lord is the great God,   the great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are the...

Celebrating Diversity without Addressing Disparity is Hypocrisy We need other human beings to help us to be human. We are made for interdependence, for complementarity. We are made for family, the human family, God’s family. Let us make sure that we value every member of it. Preface by John Sentamu (former Bishop of Birmingham, recently retired...

Good morning I hope you have not been blown away in the last few days Psalm 131 O Lord, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not raised in haughty looks. I do not occupy myself in great matters, with things that are too high for me. But I have quieted and stilled my soul,...

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...