Daily Readings for Monday 30th 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 - The forerunner, and coming of the Messiah to cleanse his church, and to judge the wicked. The people are warned to repent, and turn from their sins, particularly their sacrilege, and impious blasphemy. God's blessing promised to those that fear him.
Malachi 3
Preface - Mary Magdalene, seeing the stone taken away from the sepulchre, runneth to tell Peter and Joh, who go thither, and find not the body: Mary seeth two angels sitting in the sepulchre; Jesus himself appeareth to her. He appeareth to his disciples: the incredulity of Thomas. Jesus appeareth again to the disciples, and satisfieth the doubts of Thomas; who confesseth him. The sufficiency of what is written for a ground of faith unto salvation.
John 20


Daily Light - Morning
Blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel. - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. - Sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
1 Co. 1.8; Col. 1.21-23; Phil. 2.15
2 Pe. 3.14; Phil. 1.10
Jude 24-25


Daily Light - Evening
He will keep the feet of his saints.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. - He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble... Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away... Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hands nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Sa. 2.9; 1 Jn. 1.6-7; Jn. 13.10
Pro. 4.11-12,13-15,25-27
​2 Tim. 4.18


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 50 - What is required in the fourth commandment?
A - The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as he has appointed in his Word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 1
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​The liberty which Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the severity and curse of the law,1 and in their being delivered from this present evil world,2 bondage to Satan,3 and dominion of sin,4 from the evil of afflictions,5 the fear and sting of death, the victory of the grave,6 and everlasting damnation:7 as also in their free access to God, and their yielding obedience unto Him, not out of slavish fear,8 but a child-like love and willing mind.9 All which were common also to believers under the law for the substance of them;10 but under the New Testament the liberty of Christians is further enlarged, in their freedom from the yoke of a ceremonial law, to which the Jewish church was subjected, and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, and in fuller communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of.11
1 Gal. 3:13
2 Gal. 1:4
3 Acts 26:18
4 Rom. 8:3
5 Rom. 8:28
6 1 Cor. 15:54–57
7 2 Thess. 1:10
8 Rom. 8:15
9 Luke 1:73–75; 1 John 4:18
10 Gal. 3;9,14
11 John 7:38–39; Heb. 10:19–21


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Strength
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Psalm 84 v 5

Remember Jesus for us is all our righteousness before a holy God, and Jesus in us is all our strength in an ungodly world.