Daily Readings for Monday 21st July 2025

Daily Prayer - Monday
Monday
Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone in 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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.



Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - Israel is oppressed by Jabin and Sisera. Deborah stirreth up Barak to their deliverance. Deborah and Barak go up with an army to mount Tabor. Sisera is defeated. He fleeth to the tent of Jael, who killeth him. Jabin is totally subdued.
Judges 4
Preface -The disciples being dispersed by reason of a great persecution at Jerusalem, a church is planted by Philip in Samaria; Simon the sorcerer is baptized with many others. Peter and John are sent thither, who by prayer and imposition of hands give the Holy Ghost. Simon offereth money for this power, is sharply reproved by Peter for his wickedness and hypocrisy, and admonished to repent: the apostles return to Jerusalem, having preached the word. Philip is sent by an angel to convert and baptize an Ethiopian eunuch.
Acts 8



Daily Light - Morning
What profit is there of circumcision?

Much every way. - Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart. - If....their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember.

Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers. - In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. - You, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.

Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and ....put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness.
Ro. 3.1; Ro. 3.2; Jer. 4.4; Lev. 26.41-42
Ro. 15.8; Col. 2.11; Col. 2.13
Eph. 4.22-23,24



Daily Light - Evening
The veil of the temple was rent in twain
from the top to the bottom.

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. - The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life.... He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.... Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.

A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh....let us draw near.
Mt. 27.51; 1 Co. 11.23-24; Jn. 6.51
Jn. 6.53-54,56-57,61-63
​He. 10.20,22
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 82 - What is meant by the words, "till he come," which are used by the apostle Paul in reference to the Lord's Supper?
A - They plainly teach us that our Lord Jesus Christ will come a second time; which is the joy and hope of all believers.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Civil Magistrate
Chapter 24
PARAGRAPH 2
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It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate when called thereunto; in the management whereof, as they ought especially to maintain justice and peace,  (2)  according to the wholesome laws of each kingdom and commonwealth, so for that end they may lawfully now, under the New Testament, wage war upon just and necessary occasions.  (3)
(2)-2 Sam. 23.3; Ps. 82.3-4  (3)-Luke 3.14
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
In time of death
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1 Corinthians 15 v 26

Few ever think of dying till dying comes. The last enemy that shall be overcome is Death; and an awful enemy he is. We go alone. No earthly friend goes with us. We never went the way before. It is all strange and new. The results are eternal. If we have not rightly believed, it is too late to mend. These are some of the solemn thoughts that overshadow the soul. What can give peace? None but Jesus; the sight of Jesus as a Redeemer, the same yesterday, today, and forever; the same sight we got when first we knew the Lord, when first He chose us and we chose Him, when first He said, 'Seek ye my face,' and we said to Him, 'Thy face, Lord, shall we seek.' To see Him as a God of truth, the Lord that changes not, the unchanging One, the same Jesus; thus to see Him and to cry, 'Into thy hands I commit my spirit' - this is peace.