Daughters in My Kingdom by The Church of Jesus Christ ...

You live your lives for the sake of others. Around the world in the Realms and Commonwealth are so many more. Next door are 400 extraordinary young people in St Margaret’s, whose lives speak of service. Today we have the honour of being in this Abbey with so many who show such love you work with charities and organisations, you build community, you serve the nation in Armed Forces, in emergency services, and so many other ways. We have seen those priorities in the life of duty lived by our King. We see active love in our care for the most vulnerable, the way we nurture and encourage the young, in the conservation of the natural world. He creates the unchangeable law that with the privilege of power comes the duty to serve. The King of Kings, Jesus Christ, was anointed not to be served, but to serve. Jesus doesn’t grasp power or hold onto status. And the Kingdom also sets the means of all government and authority.

That Kingdom sets the aims of all righteous government, all authority. The bruised and broken-hearted are healed. For Jesus Christ announced a Kingdom in which the poor and oppressed are freed from chains of injustice.

What is given today is for the gain of all. We are here to crown a King, and we crown a King to serve.

25 years on from the Good Friday Agreement, the Church still has a vital role to play.

Matt Redman: ‘Reverence in worship has become my lifelong pursuit’.

Rev Les Isaac: ‘I get bored if I’m in church too much.

Daughters in My Kingdom by The Church of Jesus Christ ...