Daily Reading for Monday 25th September 2023

Prayer
-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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 Readings
Preface - The three years' famine on account of the Gibeonites ceaseth upon hanging seven of Saul's sons. Rizpah's care for their dead bodies. David burieth their bones with those of Saul and Jonathan in the seplchre of Kish. In four battles against the Philistines four of David's mighty men slay four giants.
2 Samuel 21
Preface - After saluting the churches of Galatia, Paul testifieth his surprise that they should so soon have forsaken the truth of the gospel which he had taught them; and pronounceth those accursed who preach any other gospel. He sheweth that his doctrine was not devised to please men, but came to him by immediate revelation from God. To confirm which he relateth his conversation before his calling, and what steps he had taken immediately thereupon.
Galatians 1

A Puritans Catechism
Q5 - Are there more Gods than one?
A - There is but one only, the living and true God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The voice of the shepherd
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. - John 10 v 4-5
You know, brethren, this is the characteristic of the sheep of the east, they know the shephers voice. There was once a traveller in the east who denied that they knew the voice of the shepherd, and contended that it was the person they knew; and to prove it, they changed clothes. The person called the sheep, and they moved not; but when the shepherd called them, they instantly followed him. Now, this is just the way with Christ and His sheep. Christ may be disguised, but faith hears His voice. The first time they hear His voice is the time of conversion. You remember Zaccheus, he was up in the sycamore tree, and he might think, 'Christ's word will not reach me'; but Christ said to him. 'Come down, Zeccheus, for today I must abide at thy house.' The voice of the Shepherd reached him. This was the first day that Zaccheus heard the Shepherd's voice. You remember Lydia, she sat among the Grecian matrons by the riverside, and heard Paul preach. Someone opened her heart and said, 'Come away'; it was the voice of the Shepherd. 'The Lord opened the heart of Lydia to attend unto the things that were spoken.' It was the outward voice of Paul, but it was the inward voice of Christ.