Daily Readings for Monday 7th April 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)

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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 - Nadab and Abihu for offering strange fire are burned by fire from the Lord. Aaron and his sons are forbidden to mourn for them. The priests are forbidden wine when they are to go into the tabernacle. The law of eating the holy things. Aaron's excuse for transgressing it.
Leviticus 10
11) Preface - David encourageth himself in God against his enemies. The providence and justice of God.
12) Preface - David complaining of the perfidiousness of mankind desireth the help of God: he comforteth himself in the assurance of God's judgments on the wicked, and in the faithfulness of his promises to protect the righteous.
Psalms 11-12



​Daily Light - Morning
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor,
yet making many rich; as having nothing,
and yet possessing all things.

We....rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also. - I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. - Believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? - God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.
2 Co. 6.10; Ro. 5.2-3; 2 Co. 7.4; 1 Pe. 1.8
2 Co. 8.2; Eph. 3.8-9
Jas. 2.5; 2 Co. 9.8

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Daily Light - Evening
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:
thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them. - He whom thou lovest is sick. - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

We faint not....though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

In him we live, and move, and have our being. - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength. - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Ps. 41.3; Isa. 63.9; Jn. 11.3; 2 Co. 12.9; Phil. 4.13
2 Co. 4.16
​Ac. 17.28; Isa. 40.29-31; Deu. 33.27


A Puritans Catechism
Q 66 - Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
A - Some sins in themselves, and by reason of various aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
Chapter 6
PARAGRAPH 3
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They being the root, and by God's appointment, standing in the room and stead of all mankind, the guilt of the sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation,  (6)  being now conceived in sin,  (7)  and by nature children of wrath,  (8)  the servants of sin, the subjects of death,  (9)  and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.  (10).
(6)-Rom. 5.12-19; 1 Cor. 15.21-22,45,49  (7)-Ps. 51.5; Job 14.4  (8)-Eph. 2.3  (9)-Rom. 6.20; 5.12  (10)-Heb. 2.14-15; 1 Thess. 1.10

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The first mark
God forsaken by God.
....My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Matthew 27 v 46

These are the words of the great Surety of sinners, as he hung upon the accursed tree. The mroe I meditate upon them, the more impossible do I find it to unfold all that is contained in them. You must often have observed how a very small thing my be an index of something great going on within. The pennant at the mast-head is a small thing; yet it shows plainly which way the wind blows. A cloud no bigger than a man's hand is a small thing; yet it may show the approach of a mighty storm. The swallow is a little bird; and yet it shows that summer is come. So it is with man. A look, a sigh, a half-uttered word, a broken sentence may show more of what is passing within than a long speech. So it was with the dying Saviour. These few troubled words tell more than volumes of divinity.