Daily Readings for Monday 23rd December 2024

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
Preface - God is to be sought unto, and not idols. As he visited his flock for sin, so will he save and restore them.
Zechariah 10
Preface - Jesus washeth his disciples feet, and exhorteth them to follow his example of humility and charity: he foretelleth the treachery of Judas, and pointeth him out to John by a token: he speaketh of his glorification as near at hand, and commandeth his disciples to love one another: he forewarneth Peter that he shall thrice deny him.
John 13


Daily Light - Morning
Let him take hold of my strength,
that he may make peace with me.

I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil. - There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace.

It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself. - Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past...that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
Isa. 27.5; Jer. 29.11; Isa. 48.22
Eph. 2.13-14
Col. 1.19-20; Ro. 3.24-25,26; 1 Jn. 1.9
Isa. 26.4


Daily Light - Evening
God hath given to us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son.

As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will... As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. - I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep... I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. - No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. - For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
1 Jn. 5.11; Jn. 5.21,26
Jn. 11.25-26; Jn. 10.11,17-18; Jn. 14.6; 1 Jn. 5.12; Col. 3.3-4


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 43 - What is required in the first commandment?
​A - The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 2

The same law that was first written in the heart of man continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness after the fall,4 and was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written in two tables, the four first containing our duty towards God, and the other six, our duty to man.5
4 Rom. 2:14–15
5 Deut. 10:4


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The gospel bell
... a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses.
Exodus 39 v 26

Christians you are priests. Be like Christ in this. Wherever you go, carry a savour of Christ. His name is like ointment poured forth; it is like the vine flourishing, and the pomegranate budding. Let men take knowledge of you, that you have been with Jesus; let it be plain that you come from within the veil; let the smell of your garments be as a field which the Lord hath blessed. Carry a sound of Christ wherever you go. Not a step, Christians, without the sound of the gospel bell. Even in smallest things, be spreading the glad sound. Edwards says, wherever a godly person enters, he is a greater blessing than if the greatest monarch were entering. So be it with you. It appears to me that even the tracts for which you contribute, are like little bells.. They are small and despised by some, yet they carry the clear sound of the Gospel wherever they go. What Christian among you would not love to see them multiplied, till every family on the globe should hear the message of mercy? Come, then, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.