Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thanks to God for the Bible, its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.)
- Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue.
- Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would        continue to help us to grasp God's truth.
- Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us.



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 - The people threatened for their confidence in Egypt, and contempt of God's word. God's mercies toward his church. God's wrath, and the people's joy, in the destruction of Assyria.
Isaiah 30
​Preface - After a general address, June exhorteth Christians to constancy in the received faith. He fortelleth the punishment of certain false teachers crept in the church, and describeth their evil doctrine and manners. He exhorteth true Christians to persevere in the right faith, and in the love of God; and to seek the reformation of others. He concludeth with ascribing glory to God.
Jude


Daily Light - Morning
The life of the flesh is in the blood:
and I have given it to you upon the altar to make
an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood
that maketh an aatonement for the soul.

Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. - The blood of the Lamb. - The precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. - Without shedding of blood is no remission. - The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

By his own Blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh... Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.

Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Lev. 17.11; Jn. 1.29; Rev. 7.14; 1 Pe. 1.19; He. 9.22; 1 Jn. 1.7
He. 9.12; He. 10.19-20,22
​1 Co. 6.20


Daily Light  - Evening
Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

It came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, it is better for me to die than to live.

​Job spake, and said... Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasure? - Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. - In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Ps. 55.6; Jon. 4.8
Job 3.2,20-21; Ps. 34.19
​Jn. 12.27; He. 2.17-18


A Puritans Catechism 
Q 82 - What is meant by the words, "till he come," which are used by the  apostle Paul in reference to the Lord's Supper?
A - They plainly teach us that our Lord Jesus Christ will come a second time; which is the joy and hope of all believers.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH7
Christ, in the work of mediation, acts according to both natures, by each nature doing that which is proper to itself; yet by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature is sometimes in Scripture, attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.37

37 John 3:13; Acts 20:28

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path  - Daily Devotional Readings
Shut in or shut out
... And the door was shut  - Matthew 25 v 10
The door of Christ stands wide open for a long time, but shuts at last. When Christ comes, the door will be shut. Now the door is open, and we are sent to invite you to come in. Soon it will be shut, aand then you cannot. So it was in the flood. One hundred and twenty years the door of the ark stood wide open. Noah went forth, and preached everywhere, inviting men to come in. The Spirit strove with men. But they only mocked at the coming flood. At last the day came. Noah entered, and God shut him in. The door was shut. The flood came and carried them all away. So it will be with many here. The door is wide open now. Jesus says: 'I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.' Christ does not say, I was, or I will be, but, I am the door. At present any man may enter in. Soon Christ will come - like a thief - like a snare - like travail on a woman with child.  - and you shall not escape. Enter in at the strait gate.

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 - Ephraim threatened for pride and drunkenness. God will be the glory and strength of the residue. They are reported for their excess, and carnal security. Christ, the sure foundation, promised. The security of the corners shall end in destruction. The wisdom of God's providence is seen in the discreet labours of the husband mman.
Isaiah 28 
Preface - The apostle, after a kind salutation Gaius, testifieth his joy in his piety, commending Diotrephes, and threateneth him for his ambitious opposition. The ill example of such is not to be followed. He beareth testimony to the good character of Demetrius. He hopeth to see Gaius shortly, and concludeth with salutations.
2 John


Dialy Light - Morning 
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;
and he knoweth them that trust in him.

Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. - I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. - Who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! - As for God, his way is perfect; the word od the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?

If any man love God, the same is known of him. - The foundation God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. - The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. - Thoun hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
Na. 1.7; Jer. 33.11; Ps. 46.1; Ps. 91.2; Deu. 33.29; 2 Sa. 22.31-32
1 Co. 8.3; 2 Tim. 2.19; Ps. 1.6; Ex. 33.17


Daily Light - Eveining
I would have you without carefulness.

He careth for you. - The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him... The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. - Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? - Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
1 Co. 7.32; 1 Pe. 5.7; 2 Chr. 16.9
Ps. 34.8,10; Mt. 6.25-26; Phil. 4.6-7


A Puritans Catechism 
Q 80 - What is the Lord's Supper?
A - The Lord's Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporeal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.


Robert Murry M'Cheone - God Makes A Path - Daily Devvotional Readings
The better half of salvation...
1 Thessalonians 4 v 3
Christ's work is not done with a soul when He has brought it to pardon - when He has washed it in His own Blood. Oh, no! the better half of salvation remains.

Dear Congregation,

I want to thank all of you who have prayed and supported the work of the Gospel through the church in 2023 and this first month of 2024. It is a great joy to minister at Westminster Baptist and I love the church here greatly. Through this past year, there have been heart-wrenching tragedies alongside blessings too. This is often the case in Christian life and yet we are called to keep trusting and believing. We often bear the battle scars of past experience and circumstance, as we live in this sinful world and anticipate heaven. We see Mordecai, mocked and scorned for years in Esther and on the brink of execution, yet he latterly knew blessing from God. The most important thing was he was faithful in serving the Lord.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful - 1 Corinthians 4.2. This verse especially applies to ministers, church workers, but to all Christians. We are stewards of the oracles of God and to us has the light of the gospel been revealed. We should therefore be striving to be faithful, not popular, faithful. May that be our aim by the grace of God.

In the beginning month in recent years we have spent a week praying together on each day for certain things. As a reminder that with continuing faith that prayer is essential. Key to our hope and joy and endurance and love, and with new resolve to make time to pray regularly alone and with your family and with some group of fellow believers.

Alongside reading the Scriptures these should be our daily routine. There are various encouragements in the Scriptures to pray:
- Pray without ceasing (1 Th. 5:17).
- Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; (Ep. 6:18).
- Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; (Col. 4:2).

These are a few verses of the many that encourage us to pray and undoubtedly set before us a biblical mandate that we should be concerned to pray. Maybe you have fallen out of the 'habit' or relegated prayer to a part time practice; or you only pray when trouble or danger comes. To that end I would ask the church to pray, if led, the suggested topics below so we might pray for the same things (roughly speaking) on the same day to encourage us.

Let us be prayerful people and realise we too need prayer. To say we are praying for someone should be an expressio of concern but an indication of our own action to bring the matter before God, before the throne of Grace through the believers mediator and High Priest. Jesus Christ, Paul even requests prayer for himself and those labouring fo rthe Gospel with him twice in 1 and 2 Thessalonians saying 'brethren pray for us'. May we be a prayerful church and prayerful individuals, knowing that we have a prayer hearing and answering God.

Pastor Jonathan Arnold


Daily Prayer - Sunday
- God thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever.
- Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another.
- Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.)
- Pray we would be granted faithful ministry and good spiritual food from God's Word. (1 Peter 2.2.)


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 - God's judgment upon leviathan; his care over his vineyard, his chastisements are in measure, and with a view to reformation. Desolation threatened for want of knowledge. The restoration of the dispersed.
Isaiah 27
Preface - He that loved God loved God's children, and keeper his commandments. A true faith will enable us to overcome the world. The witnesses of our faith. God hath given to believers eternal life through his Son: and will hear and grant their petitions made according to his will. God's children are distinguished from the world by abstaining from sin, and by a right knowledge. A caution against idolatry.
1 John 5


Daily Light - Morning
Our Lord Jesus,
that great shepherd of the sheep.​

The chief Shepherd. - I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine... My sheep hear my voice, and I know them and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we hAve turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity us all. - I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. - I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick. - ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
He. 13.20, 1 Pe. 5.4; Jn. 10.14,27-28
Ps.23.1-3
Isa.53.6; Jn. 10.11; Ezek. 34.16; 1 Pe. 2.25


Daily Light - Evening
The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon,
to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it,
and the Lamb is the light  thereof.

I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of sun, shining round about me...and I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. - Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain  apart, aand was transfigured before them: and his face didshine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. - The sun shall be no more light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. The sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall thine everlasting light, and today's of thy mourning shall be ended.

The God of all grace...hath called us unto his eternal glory by ChrIstanbul Jesus.
Rev.21.23; Ac.26,13,15; Mt. 17.1-2; Isa. 60.19-20
1 Pe. 5.10


​A Puritans Catechism 
Q 79 - What is the duty of such as are rightly baptised?
​A - It is the duty of such as are rightly baptised, to give themselves up to some partitular and orderly Church of Jesus Christ, that they may walk in all the commandments and ordinancestors of the Lord blambless.

Daily Prayer - Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. (John 3.16.)
- Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal                           conversations and online contacts.


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 - A song inciting to confidence in God, for his judgments upon the adversary, and favour to his people. An exhortation to wait God's coming to judgment.
Isaiah 26
Preface - The apostle warneth to try by certain rules the spirits that pretend to come from God. He presseth the obligation of mutual love upon Christians from the example and commandment of God.
1 John 4


Daily Light - Morning
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up
for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for
them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have enterd into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. - Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the llife that now is, and of that which is to come.
Ps. 31.19; Isa. 64.4; 1 Co. 2.9-10; Ps. 16.11
Ps. 36.7-9
1 Tim. 4.8


Daily Light - Evening
The Son of God...
hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. - Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. - The Lord turned, and looked upon Peter... And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. - He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.

The Lord knoweth them that are his. - I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep... My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I  give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Rev. 2.18; Jer. 17.9-10; Ps. 90.8; Lu. 22.61,62
Jn. 2.24-25; Ps. 103.14; Isa. 42.3
2 Tim. 2.19; Jn. 10.14,27-28


A Puritans Catechism 
Q 78 - How is baptism rightly administered?
A - Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ's institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by spinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 5
The Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience and sacrifice of Himself, which He through the eternal Spirit once offered up to God, has fully satisfied the justice of God,32 procured reconciliation, and purchased an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father has given unto Him.33

32 Heb. 9:14, 10:14; Rom. 3:25–26
32 John 17:2; Heb. 9:15



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ for us
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. - Hebrews 2 v 9
Paul got such a view of the glory, brightness, and excellency of the way of salvation by Jesus, that it filled his whole heart. All other things sunk into littleness. Every mountain and hill was brought low, the crooked was made straight, the rough places smooth, and the glory of the Lord was revealed. As the rising sun makes all the stars disappear, so the rising of Christ upon his soul made everything else disappear. Jesus, suffering for us, filled his eye - filled his heart. He saw, believed, and was happy. Christ for us, answered all his need. From the Cross of Christ a ray of heavenly light flamed to his soul, filling him with light and joy unspeakable. He felt that God was glorified, and he was saved; he cleaved to the Lord with full purpose of heart.

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 to 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
Preface - The deplorable judgments of God upon the land. A remnant shall joyfully praise him. Amidst the general calamities of the earth God's kingdom shall be set up with glory.
Isaiah 24
Preface - Christ is our advocate with the Father, and a propitiation for the sins of the whole world. Rightly to know God is to keep his commandments: the chief of which is to love one another. The apostle addresseth Christians of various ages separately, and warneth them against an inordinate love of this world: and against deceivers, who were many. He sheweth the means they had of knowing the truth, and of distinguishing false teachers; and pointeth out their obligation to abide in the truth which they had been taught. He that doeth righteousness is born of God.
1 John 2


Daily Light - Morning
Thou shalt put the two stones upon
the shoulders of the ephod for stones of
memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron
shall bear their names before the LORD.

But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Seeing...that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touhed with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace.

The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
Ex. 28.12; He. 7.24-25; Jude 24
He. 4.14-16
Deu.33.12


Daily Light - Evening
On that night could not the king sleep.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking. - Who is like unto the LORD our God...who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. - Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. - Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. - We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Est. 6.1; Ps. 77.4; Ps. 113.4,6
Dan. 4.35; Ps. 77.19; Ps. 76.10
2 Chr. 16.9; Ro. 8.28
Mt. 10.29-30


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.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 3
The Lord Jesus, in His human nature thus united to the divine, in the person of the Son, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure,13 having in Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge;14 in whom it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell,15 to the end that being holy, harmless, undefiled,16 and full of grace and truth,17 He might be throughly furnished to execute the office of mediator and surety;18 which office He took not upon himself, but was thereunto called by His Father;19 who also put all power and judgement in His hand, and gave Him commandment to execute the same.20

13 Ps. 45:7; Acts 10:38; John 3:34
14 Col. 2:3
15 Col. 1:19
16 Heb. 7:26
17 John 1:14
18 Heb. 7:22
19 Heb. 5:5
20 John 5:22,27; Matt. 28:18; Acts 2:36



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Open reward
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. - Matthew 6 vs 3 & 4.
If you give, hoping for something again, you will get nothing. You must give as a Christian gives, - cheerfully, liberally, and freely, hoping for nothing again; and then God will give you back good measure, pressed down. 'Give, and it shall be given you.'

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thanks to God for the Bible, its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.)
- Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue.
- Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would        continue to help us to grasp God's truth.
- Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us.



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 - The miserable overthrow of Tyre. Her restoration after seventy years, and her whordoms.
Isaiah 23
Preface - The apostle professeth to declare what he had formerly seen and known of the Word of life, to the end that others might have fellowship with him. The substance of his doctrine is, that to have fellowship with God, we must be holy as he is holy; and that if we confess our sins, we shall be forgiven through the blood of Christ.
1 John 1


Daily Light - Morning
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

The world passeth away, and the lust thereof. - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. - What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Martha, Marthe, thou are careful and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. - I would have you without carefulness.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. - The Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. - The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: the LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; the LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Jn. 14.27; 1 Jn. 2.17; Ps. 39.6; Ro. 6.21
Lu. 10.41-42; 1 Co. 7.32
Jn. 16.33; 2 Th. 3.16; Nu. 6.24-26



Daily Light - Evening
The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.

The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God? - it is God which worketh in you.

We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Ro. 8.26; Jn. 14.26; 1 Co. 6.19; Phil. 2.13
Ro. 8.26-27
Ps. 103.14; Isa. 42.3
Mt. 26.41
Ps. 23.1-2


A Puritans Catechism
Q 75 - What is baptism?
A - Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptised a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being ingrafted into him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 2

The Son of God, the second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the Father's glory, of one substance and equal with Him who made the world, who upholds and governs all things He has made, did, when the fullness of time was complete, take upon Him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities of it,9 yet without sin;10 being conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit coming down upon her: and the power of the Most High overshadowing her; and so was made of a woman of the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures;11 so that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man.12

9 John 1:14; Gal. 4;4
10 Rom. 8:3; Heb. 2:14,16–17, 4:15
11 Matt. 1:22–23
12 Luke 1:27,31,35; Rom. 9:5; 1 Tim. 2:5



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
What a friend we have in Jesus
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here,
my brother had not died. - John 2 v 21
Learn that afflicting time is trying time. Affliction is like the furnace, it discovers the dross as well as the gold. Had all things gone on smoothly at Bethany, Martha and Mary had never known their sin and weakness; but now the furnace brought out the dross. Learn to guard against unbelief. Guard against presumption, making a Bible promise for yourself, and learning upon a word God has never spoken. Guard against prescribing your way to Christ, and limiting Him in His dealings. Guard against unbelief, believing only part of God's testimony. 'O foolish, and slow of heart to believe all that God hath spoken.' Re-member, whatever your darkness may be, to carry your complaint to Jesus Himself.