April 21st, 2024

Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend    alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


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
Preface - Like things happen on earth to good and bad men. With the living is hope, but the dead have no more concern with this world. An exhortation cheerfully to enjoy the goods of life, and to act with vigour, while the time serveth. Human probabilities are not always justified by the event. Wisdom is better than strength.
Ecclesiastes 9
Preface - The salutation. For what purpose Titus was left in Crete. How they should be qualified who are ordained to the ministry. The mouths of evil teachers must be stopped. The bad character of the cretians.
Titus 1


Daily Light - Morning
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd,
let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will... And he shall put his hand
upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be
accepted for him to make atonement for him.

God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. - Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.  - We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. - A ransom for many.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. - I will love them freely. - The Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. - He hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Lev. 1.3,4; Ge. 22.8; Jn. 1.29; He. 10.10; Mt. 20.28
Jn. 10.18; Hos. 14.4; Ga. 2.20
2 Co. 5.21; Eph. 1.6


Daily Light - Evening
Great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast
delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Fear him which is able to destoy both soul and body in hell.

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine... I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour... I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. - They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: (for the redemption of their soul is precious...)-I have found a ransom. - God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Ps. 86.13; Mt. 10.28
Isa. 43.1,11,25; Ps. 49.6-8; Job 33.24; Eph. 2.4-5
Ac. 4.12


A Puritans Catechism
Q 45 - What is required in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 9

The supreme judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit, into which Scripture so delivered, our faith is finally resolved.21

21 Matt. 22:29, 31, 32; Eph. 2:20; Acts 28:23



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The comforter
Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,
and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together
with me in your prayers to God for me.
Romans 15 v 30
It is curious to remark, that wherever the Holy Ghost is spoken of in the Bible, He is spoken of in terms of gentleness and love. We often read of the wrath of God the Father, as in Romans 1 v 18 'The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.' And we often read of the wrath of God the Son: 'Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way'; or, 'Revealed from heaven taking vengeance.' But we nowhere read of the wrath of God the Holy Ghost.
He is compared to a dove, the gentlest of all creatures. He is warm and gentle as the breath: 'Jesus breathed on them, and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.' He is gentle as the falling dew: 'I will be as the dew unto Israel.' He is soft and gentle as oil; for He is called, 'The oil of gladness.' The fine oil wherewith the high priest was anointed was a type of the Spirit. He is gentle and refreshing as the springing well.: 'The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life.' He is called 'The Spirit of grace and of supplications.'
He is nowhere called the Spirit of wrath. He is called the 'Holy Ghost, which is the Comforter.' Nowhere is he called the Avenger. We are told that He groans within the heart of a believer, 'helping his infirmities'; so that He greatly helps the believer in prayer. We are told also of the love of the Spirit - nowhere of the wrath of the Spirit. We are told of His being grieved: 'Grieve not the Holy Spirit'; of His being resisted: 'Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost'; of His being quenched: 'Quench not the Spirit.' But these are all marks of gentleness and love.
Nowhere will you find one mark of anger or of vengeance attributed to Him; and yet, brethren, when this blessed Spirit begins His work of love, mark how He begins - He convinces of sin. Even He, all-wise, almighty, all-gentle and loving though he be, cannot persuade a poor sinful heart to embrace the Saviour, without first opening up His wounds and convincing him that he is lost.