The Church of Christ the Cornerstone
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Help us today, Lord,
to remember you are with us.
Sometimes our lives feel so busy.
Give us reminders of your presence
and help us to notice them.
As we move from one task to another,
may we stop for a moment
to lift our hearts to you.
Amen
Loving God, we thank you for coming amongst us
as light for our world;
making real your initiative of love,
proclaiming your offer of forgiveness
and calling us to share your cross-bound road.
We pray that we may be ready to respond, in Jesus’ name.
Amen
Almighty God, who called your Church to witness
that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself:
help us to proclaim the good news of your love,
that all who hear it may be drawn to you;
through him who was lifted up on the cross, and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen
Thank you God for understanding us,
for being ready to forgive, not to condemn,
for coming among us, to show us your way,
for teaching us in love and compassion, not judgement,
for giving us a way to life and hope.
Amen
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Address: 300 Saxon Gate West, Central Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes MK9 2ES
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Phone: 01908 237777 (answered when the Cornerstone building is open)
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