Daily Readings for Monday 13th January 2025

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
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and 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 Plan - First Year
Preface - The battle of four kings against five. Lot is taken prisoner. Abram rescueth Lot, is met by the king of Sodom, and blessed by Melchizedek, to whom he giveth tithe. He restoreth the rest of the spoil to the king of Sodom, except the portion of his confederates.
Genesis 14
Preface - The parable of the sower. Why Christ taught in parables. The exposition of the parable of the sower. The parable of the tares; of the grain of mustard seed; of the leaven. The parable of the tares expounded. The parable of the hidden treasure; of one pearl of great price; of a net cast into the sea. Christ's countrymen are offended in him.
Matthew 13


Daily Light - Morning
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. - I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? - Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus - In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.

The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect or righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. - Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. - Peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come.
Isa. 26.3; Ps. 55.22; Isa. 12.2
Mt. 8.26; Phil. 4.6-7; Isa. 30.15
Isa. 32.17; Jn. 14.27; Rev. 1.4


Daily Light - Evening
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother... Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. - When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. - Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

The apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

Eph. 4.26; Mt. 18.15,21-22; Mk. 11.25
Col. 3.12-13; Eph. 4.32
​Lu. 17.5


A Puritans Catechism
Q 64 - What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 4
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An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation. (7)  
(7) Ps. 34.4
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Infinite love
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4 v 8

A mother's love is the fullest love which we have on earth. She loves with all her heart. But there is no love more full than that of God toward his Son; God loves Jesus fully. The whole heart of the Father is, as it were, continually poured down in love upon the Lord Jesus. There is nothing in Christ that does not draw the infinite love of God. In Him God sees his own image perfectly, his own law acted out, his own will done. The Father loves the Son fully; but when a soul comes into Christ, the same love rests on that soul: 'That the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them'. (John 17 v 26).