Daily Reading for Sunday 13th August 2023

Prayer
-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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
(Sunday morning) - Scripture reading - Romans 5
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
(Sunday evening) - Scripture reading - Daniel 6 v 1-13
Study bible and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday 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 (opposite Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.

Daily Readings
Preface - The manner in which the word of the Lord was first revealed to Samuel. God sheweth to Samuel the destruction of Eli's house. Samuel is favoured by God, and acknowledged for a prophet in Israel.
1 Samuel 3
Preface - The Jew's prerogative; which is not vacated by the unbelief of some; nor is God's justice impeached in punishing their sinfulness. The law itself convinceth the Jews also universally of sin; so that no flesh is justified by the deeds of the law; but all indiscriminately by God's grace through faith in Christ: yet without annulling the obligations of the law.
Romans 3

A Puritans Catechism
Q46 - What is forbidden in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment forbids the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
See the end
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. - John 13 v 7
Perhaps you will say that they are an afflicted people. Some in poverty, some bereaved, some groaning on sick-beds. True, God dealeth with them as with sons. Often they cry 'These things are against me.' But really all is for them. If we could see the end as God does, we would see that every event is for the believer. When we get to the haven, we will see that every wind was wafting us to glory.