Daily Readings for Thursday 17th April 2025

Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part       of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.



Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.  


Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - Of the priests' mourning. Of their holiness. Of their marriages. Of a priest's daughter convicted of playing the harlot. Of the high priest's holiness. Of his marriage. The priests that have blemishes must not minister in the sanctuary.
Leviticus 21
Psalms 26) Preface - David in confidence of his integrity resorteth unto God.
Psalms 27) Preface - David's faith in the power of God as his continued safeguard: his love for the service of God: he prayeth for future grace and assistance.
Psalms 26
Psalms 27


Daily Light - Morning
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. - Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's

Ye are....a royal priesthood....that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. - Ye....as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. - By him....let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall bear thereof, and be glad, O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Ps. 50.23; Col. 3.16-17; 1 Co. 6.20
1 Pe. 2.9; 1 Pe. 2.5; He. 13.15
Ps. 34.2-3



Daily Light - Evening
Draw me, we will run after thee.

I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. - I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. - Behold the Lamb of God! - As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. - We love him, because he first loved us.

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song 1.4; Jer. 31.3; Hos. 11.4; Jn. 12.32; Jn. 1.36; Jn. 3.14,15
Ps. 73.25; 1 Jn. 4.19
​Song 2.10-13


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 76 - To whom is Baptism to be administered?
A - Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 6
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Although the price of redemption was not actually paid by Christ until after His incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefit thereof were communicated to the elect in all ages, successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices wherein He was revealed, and signified to be the seed which should bruise the serpent's head;  (34)  and the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,  (35)  being the same yesterday, and today and for ever.  (36)
(34)-1 Cor. 4.10, Heb. 4.2; 1 Pet. 1.10-11  (35)-Rev. 13.8  (36)-Heb. 13.8



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Misers of grace
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
John 1 v 16

A Christian in our day is like a man who has got a great reservoir brimful of water. He is at liberty to drink as much as he pleases, for he never can drink it dry; but instead of drinking the full stream that flows from it, he dams it up, and is content to drink the few drops that trickle through. O that ye would draw out of His fullness, ye that have come to Christ! Do not be misers of grace. There is far more than you will use in eternity. The same waters are now in Christ that refreshed Paul, that gave Peter his boldness, that gave John his affectionate tenderness. Why is your soul less richly supplied than theirs? Because you will not drink: 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.'