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Prayer
- 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 (" Corinthians 5.20) Church Services Sermons Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Bible study and prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook) Lunch hour service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 (3) - The place of the temple, and the time when the building was begun. The dimensions and ornaments of the house. The dimensions and ornaments of the most holy house; the cherubims that were therein. The vail. The two great pillars. Preface (4) - The altar of brass. The molten sea supported by twelve oxen. The ten lavers, candlesticks, and tables. The two courts. The vessels, furniture, and instuments of brass. The vessels, furniture, and instruments of gold. 2 Chronicles 3-4 Preface - It is a mark of God's singular love toward us, that we are now called his sons, and designed for further happiness hereafter: and therefore we must obediently keep his commandments, and love one another with true brotherly kindness and actual beneficence. 1 John 3 Daily Light - Morning Where shall wisdom be found?... Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. - Trust in teh LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. - The only wise God. - Be not wise in thine own eyes. Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. - All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. - To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Job 28.12,28; Jas. 1.5-6; Pro. 3.5-6; 1 Tim. 1.17; Pro. 3.7 Jer. 1.6-8 Jn. 16.23-24; Mt. 21.22; Isa. 8.20 Daily Light - Evening I would not live alway. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at res... I would hasten my escape from the winky storm and tempest. In this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven... For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. - Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Gor consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Job 7.16; Ps. 55.6,8 2 Co. 5.2,4; Phil. 1.23 He. 12.1-3 Jn. 14.27 A Puritans Catechism Q75 - What is baptism? A - Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptized a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being ingrafted into him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up hiself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of the Fall of Man, of Sin and of the Punishment thereof Chapter 6 PARAGRAPH 2Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all:3 all becoming dead in sin,4 and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.5 3 Rom. 3:23 4 Rom 5:12, etc. 5 Titus 1:15; Gen. 6:5; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:10–19 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings The main-spring For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead. - 2 Corinthians 5 v 15 That Christ's love to man is here intended, and not our love to the Saviour, is quite obvious, from the explanation which follows, where His dying for all is pointed to as the instance of His love. It was the view of that strange compassion of the Saviour, moving Him to die for His enemies - to bear double for all our sins, to taste death for every man - it was this view which gave Paul the impulse in every labour - which made all suffering light to him, and every commandment not grievous. He 'ran with patience the race that was set before him'. Why? Because, 'looking unto Jesus', he lived as a man'crucified unto the world, and the world crucified unto him.' By what means? By looking to the cross of Christ. As the natural sun in the heavens exercises a mighty and unceasing attractive energy on the planets which circle round it, so did the Sun of Righteousness, which had indeed arisen on Paul with a brightness above that of noon-day, exercise on his mind a continual and an almighty energy, constraining him to live henceforth no more unto himself, but to Him that died for him and rose again. And observe, that it was not temporary, fitful energy, which it exerted over his heart and life, but an abiding and a continued attraction; for he does not say that the love of Christ did once constrain him; or that it shall yet constrain him; of that in times of excitement, in seasons of prayer, or peculiar devotion, the love of Christ was wont to constrain him; but he saith simply, that the love of Christ constraineth him. It is the ever present, ever abiding, ever moving power, which forms the main-spring of all his working; so that, take that away, and his energies are gone, and Paul is become weak as other men.
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