Daily Readings for Monday 14th April 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)

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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 Israelites must not follow the practices of Egypt and Canaan, but the ordinances of God. Unlawful marriages. Unlawful lusts.
Leviticus 18
Preface - David complaineth and prayeth as one sorely distressed: he promiseth public thanksgiving and praise for mercy shewn him.
Psalms 22



​Daily Light - Morning
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow
and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with
joyful lips: when I remember thee upon my bed,
and meditate on thee in the night watches.

How precious....are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. - How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! - Thy love is better than wine.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. - Thou art fairer than the children of men.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. - His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend.
Ps. 63.5-6; Ps. 139.17-18; Ps. 119.103; Song 1.2
Ps. 73.25; Ps. 45.2
Song 2.3-4; Song 5.15-16

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Daily Light - Evening
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.

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I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. - Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. - I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. - He restoreth my soul. - O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou was angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Ps. 51.12; Isa. 57.18
Isa. 1.18; Jer. 3.22; Ps. 85.8
Ps. 103.2-3; Ps. 23.3; Isa. 12.1
Ps. 119.117
​Isa. 43.25



A Puritans Catechism
Q 73 - How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?
A - That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence, preparation, and prayer, receive it with faith and love, lay it up into our hearts, and practice it in our lives.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 2
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The Son of God, the second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the Father's glory, of one substance and equal with Him who made the world, who upholds and governs all things He has made, did, when the fullness of time was complete, take upon Him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities of it,  (9)  yet without sin;  (10)  being conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit coming down upon her: and the power of the Most High overshadowing her; and so was made of a woman of the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures;  (11)  so that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and Man.  (12)
(9)-John 1.14; Gal. 4.4  (10)  Rom. 8.3; Heb. 2.14,16-17, 4.15  (11)  Matt. 1.22-23  (12)  Luke 1.27,31,35; Rom. 9.5; 1 Tim. 2.5


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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Why bread?
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1 Corinthians 11 vs 23-24

This day, my friends, I set before you the plainest and simplest picture of the silent sufferings of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. In that night in which He was betrayed, he took bread. Why bread? Firstly, because of its plainness and commonness. He did not come in His original glory, with His Father's angels. He took not on Him the nature of angels, he became man. Secondly, he chose bread to show you that He was dumb, and opened not His mouth. When I break the bread it resists not, it complains not, it yields to my hand. So it is with Christ. He resisted not, complained not, He yielded to the hand of infinite justice. 'He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.