Daily Readings for Saturday 15th March 2025

Daily Prayer - Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ.                                  (John  3.16.)
- Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services.
​- Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and                                 online contacts.



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 ten curtains of the tabernacle. The eleven curtains of goats' hair. The covering of ram's skins. The boards of the tabernacle with their sockets and bars. The vail for the ark. The hanging for the door.
Exodus 26
Preface - Christ cureth an impotent man at the pool of Bethesda on the sabbath day: the Jews raise petty objections, and persecute him for it; he justifieth himself by the example of God his Father: and asserteth the power and judgment committed unto him by the Father: he appealeth to the testimony of John, of the Father, and of the scriptures: he sheweth that his humility caused their rejection of him; but that in disbelieving him they disbelieved Moses also.
John 5



Daily Light - Morning
Perfect through sufferings.

My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. - And being in an agony he prayed mroe earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. - Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. - I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
He. 2.10; Mt. 26.38-39; Lu. 22.44
Ps. 116.3; Ps. 69.20; Ps. 142.4
Isa. 53.3

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Daily Light - Evening
The LORD made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. - By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.... FOr he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Ex. 20.11; Ps. 19.1; Ps. 33.6,9; Isa. 40.15
He. 11.3
​Ps. 8.3-4


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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 43 - What is required in the first commandment?
A - The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the State of Man after Death and of the Resurrection of the Dead
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 10
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The supreme judge, by which all controversies of faith and practice are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit, into which Scripture so delivered, our faith is finally resolved.  (21)
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A triumphant deathbed
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
2 Timothy 4 v 7
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I think the dying thief could say: I believe, and enter with joy into Paradise; but he could not say: 'I have kept the faith.' This makes the difference between a peaceful and triumphant death-bed. Paul 'bought the truth, and sold it not.' That good thing committed to him he kept, by the Holy Ghost given unto him. He held the beginning o fhis confidence steadfast unto the end.
Learn that perseverance in the faith is needful to a triumphant deathbed. It is Christ, and Christ alone, that is our peace in dying; yet the hand that has longest held him has the firmest hold. It is not our perseverance that is our righteousness before God, but the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus; and yet without perseverance in the faith ye cannot be saved. Alas! you that turn aside to folly, you are preparing clouds for your dying bed. Can you say you have kept the faith, poor backslider?