Naomi leads both Morning and Evening Prayer this week. Today’s Epiphany Season, Morning Prayer – Naomi considers a passage from Philippians, chapter 3, verses 1 to 14. Paul’s letter encourages us to consider what we value as individuals and as a community, to weigh up what is of value before God, instead of taking pride in achievements which are of little worth to God; “Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ…”
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