Daily Readings for Monday 24th March 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 sabbath. The free gifts for the tabernacle. The readiness of the people to offer. Bezaleel and Aholiab are called to the work.
Exodus 35
Preface - Christ comforteth his disciples with the promise of a heavenly mansion: he professeth himself the way, the truth, and the life; and that he is one with the Father: he promiseth them power to do greater works than his own, and the grant of all that they should as in his name: he requireth their obedience as a proof of their love, and giveth thema promise of the Comforter, the Holy Ghost: he leaveth his peace with them.
John 14



​Daily Light - Morning
[Abram] believed in the LORD;
and he counted it to him for righteousness.

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.

The promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

The just shall live by faith. - Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) - Our God is​ in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. - With God nothing shall be impossible.... And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
Ge. 15.6; Ro. 4.20-24
Ro. 4.13
​Ro. 1.17; He. 10.23; ps. 115.3; Lu. 1.37,45

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Daily Light - Evening
God, who hath called you unto 
his kingdom and glory.

My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight....but now is my kingdom not from hence. - Expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. - Thou....hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. - I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them....and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. - Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. - Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

A appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Thy kingdom come.
1 Th. 2.12; Jn. 18.36; He. 10.13
Rev. 11.15; Rev. 5.9,10; Rev. 20.4; Mt. 13.43; Lu. 12.32
Lu. 22.29-30
Mt. 6.10



A Puritans Catechism
Q 52 - Which is the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment is, Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Gods Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 6
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As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so He hath, by the eternal and most free purpose of His will, foreordained all the means thereunto;  (13)  wherefore they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ,  (14)  are effectually called unto faith in Christ, by His Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified,  (15)  and kept by His power through faith unto salvation;  (16)  neither are any other redeemed by Christ, or effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.  (17)
(13)  1 Pet. 1.2; 2 Thess. 2.13  (14)  1 Thess. 5.9-10  (15)  Rom. 8.30; 2 Thess. 2.13  (16)  1 Pet. 1.5  (17)  John 10.26, 17.9, 6.64



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The second look
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1 v 7

The first look to Christ makes the sinner mourn; the second look to Christ makes the sinner rejoice. When the soul looks first to Christ, he sees half the truth. He sees the wrath of God against sin, that God is holy and must avenge sin, that he can by no means clear the guilty. He sees that God's wrath is infinite, When he looks to Christ again, he sees the other half of the truth. The love of God to the lost, that God has provided a surety free to all. It is this that fills the soul with joy. Oh, it is strange, that the same object should break the heart and heal it! A look to Christ wounds, a look to Christ heals. Many, I fear, have only a half look at Christ, and this causes only grief. Many are slow of heart to believe all that is spoken concerning Jesus. They believe all except that he is free to them. They do not see this glorious truth. 'That a crucified Jesus is free to every sinner in the world,' that Christ's all is free to all.