Daily Readings for 25th December 2023

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
Sermons
Monday 25th December
(Monday morning) - Scripture reading: Matthew 1 v 18; Luke 2 v 1-19; 2 Corinthians 9 v 15, 10 v 1-11
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 Reading
Preface - Hezekiah proclaimeth a solemn passover to be kept in the second month, and calleth all  Judah and Israel to the celebration of it. The assembly, having destroyed the altars of idolatry in Jerusalem, keep the feast fourteen days. The priests bless the people.
2 Chronicles 30
Preface - The seven angels are commanded to pour out their vials on the earth. Great plagues follow thereupon. Christ cometh suddenly as a thief: blessed are they that watch.
Revelation 16

Daily Light - Morning
The kindness and love of God our Saviour
toward man appeared.

I have loved thee with an everlasting love.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. - The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. - Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.

As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.
Titus 3.4; Jer. 31.3
1 Jn. 4.9-10
Ga. 4.4-5; Jn. 1.14; 1 Tim. 3.16
He. 2.14

Daily Light - Evening
Thanks be unto God
for his unspeakable gift.

Mae a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands, Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing... Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is give: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

He...spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all.   - Having yet...one son, his well beloved, he sent him.

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the Children of men! - Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
2 Co. 9.15; Ps. 100.1-2,4; Isa. 9.6-7
Ro. 8.32; Mk. 12.6
Ps. 107.21; Ps. 103.1
Lu. 1.46-47

A Puritans Catechism
Q14 - What is sin?
A - Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God.

BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 9 
PARAGRAPH 5

This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of glory only.10
10 Eph. 4:13

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Spiritual warfare
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. - 1 Peter 2 v 11
There can never be peace in the bosom of a believer. There is a peace with God but there is always a constant war with sin. 
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