Daily Readings for Monday 28th 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 - Jephthah, the son of Gilead by a strange woman, is thrust out from home by his brethren. At the breaking out of the war the elders of Gilead appeal to him to command them, and covenant to make him their head. His embassy to the king of Ammon, which proveth fruitless. His vow. He overcometh the Amonites. His daughter cometh to meet him, with whom he doeth according to his vow.
Judges 11.12-40
Preface -Great dissentions arise about circumcising the Gentiles: Paul and Barnabas are sent to consult the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. The matter id debated in a council there; Peter declareth his opinion: Paul and Barnabas report the miracles they had wrought among the Gentiles. James pronounceth sentence in favour of the Gentiles, requiring of them abstinence only in a few particulars. Letters are sent with the determination by messengers to the churches, which are received with joy. Paul and Barnanbas propose to visit together the churches they had planted, but disagree, and travel different ways.
Acts 15



Daily Light - Morning
Walk in love.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. - Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. - Love covereth all sins.

When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. - Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again. - Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth. - Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. - If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. - Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Eph. 5.2; Jn. 13.34; 1 Pe. 4.8; Pro. 10.12
Mk. 11.25; Lu. 6.35; Pro. 24.17; 1 Pe. 3.9; Ro. 12.18; Eph. 4.32
1 Jn. 3.18



Daily Light - Evening
Let your requests be
made known unto God.

Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt. - There was given to me a thron in the flesh.... For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities.

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. - Hannah....was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and....wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life.... The LORD remembered her.

We know not what we should pray for as we ought. - He shall choose our inheritance for us.
Phil. 4.6; Mk. 14.36; 2 Co. 12.7,8-9
Ps. 142.2; 1 Sa. 1.9,10-11,19
​Ro. 8.26; Ps. 47.4
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 6 - How many persons are there in the Godhead?
A - There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

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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
A Spiritual mind
But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2 v 16

Now, every believer has the mind of Christ formed in him. He thinks as Christ does: 'This is the Spirit of a sound mind' (2 Timothy 1 v 7). This is being of the same mind in the Lord. I do not mean that a believer has the same all-seeing mind, the same infallible judgement concerning everything, as Christ has; but up to his light he sees things as Christ does.