Category: Daily Prayer

One Race: the Human Race There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3: 28 Did you know that all of humankind share a genome that is 99.5% identical? Biologically speaking we are all the same. There...

Good morning good Cornerstone friends. I hope you feel refreshed from a good night’s rest Are you part of a bubble with another single isolator or member of your family? Have you had the joy of meeting grandchildren again? Have you made a trip out to the shops for the first time in ages? Or is...

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our prayer time this evening. Let us pray: Thank you, loving God, for the world we live in, for its beauty and variety. We thank you that, as our Father, you provide for us, protect us, and encourage us to take risks, knowing that you will be there if we stumble...

A reading from Mark’s Gospel Jesus calms the storm 35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go over to the other side.’ 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and the...

A reading from the Prophet Micah 6 With what shall I come before the Lord   and bow down before the exalted God? … 8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.   And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy   and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6: 6a...

For everything has its season and a time for every activity under heaven: a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to embrace and a time...

Good morning folks! This morning prayers have been kindly put together by Martha George, and the title is: I will gather you together! Prayer God the giver of life and grace, penetrate our lives and our world so that we may learn to live in unity as you intended. You have proven your love for us,...

Champion of Social and Racial Justice The Most Revd and Rt. Hon Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, retired on Trinity Sunday (7 June 2020). Dr Sentamu is Ugandan and studied law at Makerere University, Kampala. He studied for ministry at Cambridge University. He was the 97th Archbishop of York and the first black person to be...

It wasn’t a movie, it was real The entire world watched in horror as we saw the cruelty which unfolded across our TV screens in this, the twenty-first century. One policeman in Minneapolis pinned a black man down with his bent knee on the man’s throat, while he said, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’, in...

Good morning Cornerstone people, Welcome to our gathering together for morning prayers. Alone with none but Thee, my God I journeyed on my way: What need I fear, when Thou art near O King of night and day? More safe am I within Thy hand Than if a host around me stand. The child of God...

Heavenly Father, hear us as we pray to you at close of day on this Trinity Sunday. God in three persons, blessed Trinity, on this special day we offer our praise and adoration. You are GOD, the Creator, giving us richly all things to enjoy. You are CHRIST, the Saviour of the world, made flesh to...

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...

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...

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...

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...