Daily Readings for Monday 17th February 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 mourning for Jacob. Joseph getteth leave of Pharaoh to go to bury him. The funeral. Joseph returneth to Egypt with his brethren. They appeal to him for pardon of the wrong they had done him; he comforteth them. His age: he seeth the third generation of his sons, he prophesieth unto his brethren of their return, and taketh an oath of them concerning his bones. He dieth, and is put into a coffin.
Genesis 50
Preface - The preaching and baptism of John: his testimony of Christ: Herod imprisoneth John for his free reproof. Christ is baptized, and receiveth testimony from heaven. The age and genealogy of Christ from Joseph upwards.
Luke 3

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Daily Light - Morning
The whole bullock shall he carry forth without the 
camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured
out, and burn him on the wood with fire.

They took Jesus, and led him away. And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified him. - The bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, ae burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus, also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. - The fellowship of his sufferings.

Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. - Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Lev. 4.12; Jn. 19.16-18; He. 13.11-13; Phil. 3.10
1 Pe. 4.13; 2 Co. 4.17



Daily Light - Evening
God created man in his own image.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.... We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. - For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

We know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. - I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. - If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.
Ge. 1.27; Ac. 17.29
Eph. 2.4-5,10; Ro. 8.29
1 Jn. 3.2; Ps. 17.15
​Rev. 21.7; Ro. 8.17


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 17 - Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell?
A - The sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin, together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Baptism
Chapter 29
PARAGRAPH 1
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Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized, a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death and resurrection; of his being engrafted in him;  (1)  of remission of sin;  (2)  and of giving up into God, through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.  (3)

(1)  Rom. 6.3-5; Col. 2.12; Gal. 3.27  (2)  Mark 1.4; Acts. 22.16  (3)  Rom. 6.4
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A day's march nearer home
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs 4 v 18

When Israel was travelling the wilderness they came nearer to the good land every step they took. They had a long wilderness to pass through, still every day's journey brought them nearer to the end. So it is with all that are in Christ Jesus. Every step is bringing them nearer to heaven. Every day they are coming nearer and nearer to glory. 'Now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed'. 'The night is far spent, the day is at hand.' Every soul that is carried on the wings of the eagle is flying towards the rest that remaineth. The hours fly fast; but as fast files that divine eagle. In running a race, every sleep brings you nearer to the end of it, nearer to the prize, to the crown.