Daily Readings for Monday 6th 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 - The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's wrath, can caused the flood. Noah findeth grace, being just and upright. The order, form, and end of the ark.
Genesis 6
Preface - Christ continuing his sermon giveth directions about charitable giving, prayer, forgiving our brethren, fasting, laying up treasure in heaven, keeping a single eye: and exhorteth not to be anxious about worldly things, but principally to seek God's kingdom and righteousness.
​Matthew 6


Daily Light - Morning
Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands.

Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD. - We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. - The spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.

Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD: that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. - Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. - Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
Ps. 90.17; Ezek. 16.14; 2 Co. 3.18; 1 Pe. 4.14
Ps. 128.1-2; Pro. 16.3
Phil. 2.12-13; 2 Th. 2.16-17


Daily Light - Evening
The apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus,
and told him all things...they had done.

There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. - The LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. - Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants.

Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. - The prayer of the upright is his delight.
Mk. 6.30; Pro. 18.24; Ex. 33.11; Jn. 15.14-15
Lu. 17.10
Ro. 8.15
Phil. 4.6; Pro. 15.8


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 57 - Which is the seventh commandment?
A - The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 5
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The reading of the Scriptures, (16) preaching, and hearing the Word of God, (17) teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord; (18) as also the administration of baptism, (19) and the Lord's supper, (20) are all parts of religious worship of God, to be performed in obedience to him, with understanding, faith, reverence, and godly fear, moreover, solemn humiliation, with fastings, (21) to and thanksgivings, upon special occasions, ought to be used in an holy and religious manner. (22)
(16) 1 Tim. 4:13;  (17) 2 Tim. 4.2; Luke 8:18  (18) Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:19  (19) Matt. 28:19-20 (20) 1 Cor. 11:26 (21) Esther 4:16, Joel 2:12 (22) Exod. 15:1-19 (22) Exod. 15:1-19. Ps. 107
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Little fruit!
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Psalm 2 v 8

Two farmers possessed two fields that lay next to each other. The one had rich crops, the other very scanty ones. "How comes it," says the one to the other, "that your field bears so well, and mine so poorly, when my land is as good as yours?"
"Why neighbour," said the other, "the reason is this - you only sow your field, but I both sow mine and harrow in the seed." Just, so my dear friends, there is little fruit among Christians, because there is little harrowing in by prayer. I think I could name many Christians among you who do not know one another, and never pray one with another. What wonder there is little fruit!