Daily Readings for Monday 27th January 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 - Jacob receiveth from Isaac a charge and blessing, and goeth to Padan-aram. Esau marrieth a daughter of Ishmael. The vision of Jacob's ladder; he receiveth a promise from God in a dream. He awaketh, and setteth up the stone at Beth-el. His vow.
Genesis 28
Preface - Christ is delivered bound to Pilate. Judas hangeth himself. Christ's silence before Pilate. Pilate's custom at the feast, and proposal to the people: his wife's message: being urged by the multitude, he washeth his hands in his own justification, and releasing Barabbas delivereth Jesus to be crucified. Christ is mocked of the soldiers, crowned with thorns, crucified between two thieves, reviled, and calling upon God expireth. The astonishing events which attended his death: the centurion's confession. Joseph of Arimathaea beggeth his body, and burieth it. His sepulchre is sealed, and a watch set over it.
Matthew 27


Daily Light - Morning
Ye know that he was manifested to take away
our sins: and in him is no sin.

God....hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son....who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. - He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold....but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. - The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
1 Jn. 3.5; He. 1.1,2,3; 2 Co. 5.21
1 Pe. 1.17-18,19-20; 2 Co. 5.14-15



Daily Light - Evening
I have set before you life and death,
blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.

That servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Deu. 30.19; Ezek. 18.32
Jn. 15.22
Lu. 12.47
Ro. 6.23; Jn. 3.36; Ro. 6.16
Jn. 12.26


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 78 - How is baptism rightly administered?
A - Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ's institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 25
PARAGRAPH 3
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It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent; (5) yet it is the duty of Christians to marry in the Lord; (6) yet and therefore such as profess the true religion, should not marry with infidels, or idolaters; neither should such as are godly, be unequally uoked, by marrying with such as are wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresy. (7)

(1) Heb. 13.4; 1 Tim. 4:3 (6)  1 Cor. 7:39 (7) Neh. 13:25-27
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Following Jesus
Jesus Saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
John 21 v 22

If you would follow Christ fully, you must know Him fully. A sight of His beauty draws us to follow Him. 'He is the chief among ten thousand, and altogether lovely.' 'And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me; There is an indescribable loveliness in Christ that draws the soul to follow Him. All divine perfections dwell in Him; and yet He offers to save us.
His suitableness draws us to follow Him. He just answers the need of our soul. We are all guilty, he is all righteousness. We, all weakness; He, all strength. Nothing can more completely answer our soul than Christ doth. The chickens run under the feathers of their mother when they see them stretched out, the dove flutters into the clefts, Noah in to the ark; and our soul thus follows Jesus.
His freeness draws us to follow Him. 'He will in no wise cast out.' He forgives seventy times seven. It is the keeping the eye on Christ that makes you follow Him. It is seeing the King in His beauty that makes the soul cleave to him, and run after Him. 'My soul followeth hard after thee.' 'Run the race set before you, looking unto Jesus.