Daily Reading for Saturday 12th August 2023

Prayer
-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.
-Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and online contacts.

Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (opposite Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.

Daily Reading
Preface - Hannah's song in thankfulness to God. The sin of Eli's sons. Samuel's ministry. Eli blesseth Elkanah and his wife, who beareth more children.
Eli reproveth his sons. A prophecy against Eli's house.
1 Samuel 2
Preface - They that condemnn sin in others, and are guilty of the same themselves, cannot escape God's judgment; which will be according to every man's deserts, without distinction of Jew or Gentile. The Gentiles are not left without a rule of conduct. The Jew, who boasteth of greater light, is doubly criminal in sinning against it; nor will circumcision profit him, except he keep the law.
Romans 2

A Puritans Catechism
Q45- 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.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The unbelieving believer
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. - John 20 vs 26-28
When Thomas came to the meeting of disciples that evening, I doubt not his heart was very desolate. Unbelief and unhappiness always go together, An unbelieving believer is of all men most miserable. His brethren around him were full of joy, for they had seen the Lord. Mary still remembered the blessed tone of His voice when He said: 'Mary still remembered the blessed tone of His voice when He said: 'Mary! and she answered, 'Rabboni?'
​Peter was wondering over His amazing love when He said: 'Go tell the disciples, and Peter.' And the bosom of John was filled with a silent feeling of unutterable love. All were glad but one. That one was Thomas. But now, when Christ came in, when He revealed Himself a crucified but risen Redeemer, when He showed His special kindness to Thomas, the heart of Thomas could stand out no longer, and he cried out, in words of appropriating faith, before all: 'My Lord, and my God.'