Daily Reading for Sunday 20th 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 online via Facebook)
(Sunday morning scripture reading) Matthew 5 v 17
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also online via Facebook)
(Sunday evening scripture reading) Romans 5
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 (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). And afterwards we go back to church for prayer.

Daily reading
Preface - Samuel calleth upon the people, and receiveth from them an ample justification of his integrity. He chargeth them with ingratitude in rejecting God's government, and warneth them against future disobedience. To convince them of their offence in asking a king, he calleth for thunder and rain in the time of harvest to their great dismay; but encourageth them with the assurance of divine favour, if they will but fear the Lord, and serve him heartily.
1 Samuel 12
Preface - Paul's prayer for Israel, who were misled by blind zeal. The difference between justification by the law and by faith explained from scripture. Salvation open to all that believe, both Jews and Gentiles. The necessity of preaching to the Gentiles inferred. God's acceptance of the Gentiles known before to the Jews, as also their own refusal of his offered mercy.
Romans 10

A Puritans Catechism
Q53 - What is required in the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors or equals.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Inseparable Christ
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. - Luke 10 v 42
Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Everything else can be taken away from you, your money, your friends, etc: but if you have once embraced the Lamb of God, you have that good part which shall never be taken away from you. You are chosen to 'an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away.' Then we can say without any fear, 'The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; I have a goodly heritage.'