Daily Readings for Saturday 30th September 2023

Prayer
-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
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 Readings
Preface - David chargeth Solomon to serve God, and directeth him how to deal with Joab, the sons of Barzillai, and Shimei. David's death; the years of his reign. Solomon succeedeth him. Adonijah, having persuaded Bathsheba to ask for him Abishag to wife, is put to death by Solomon's command. Abiathar hath his life spared, but is removed from the priesthood. Joab, having fled to the horns of the altar, is there slain. Benaiah is put in Joab's place, and Zadok in Abiathar's. Shimei is confined to Jerusalem; but going to Gath in defiance of the king's orders is put to death.
1 Kings 2
Preface - Paul adviseth them to reform the faulty with gentleness, and to bear one another's burdens. A caution against vanity. He exhorteth to be liveral toward spiritual instructors: and not to be eary in doing good. He sheweth the carnal views of those who preached circumcision, and his own professed dependence on Christ only, regardless of the world. He concludeth with a prayer.
Galatians 6

A Puritans Catechism
Q10-How did God create man?
A - God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A vent for His love
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. - John 10 v 17
Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life. I do not know any word in the Bible that is more sweet to meditate on than the love of the Father to the Son. There are many things that induce the Father to love the Son. He loved Him for His Godhead. But here is another reason why the Father loves the son - He loves Him for His holy manhood. 'He was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners.' God never saw anything so like Himself. When God made Adam, He said, 'It is very good'; but oh! when He saw Jesus, he saw a loveliness in Him such as He never saw in any created thing. But here is another reason why the Father loves Him - 'Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life.' We are told that He grew in favour both with God and man. He was every day fulfilling a part of His holy obedience, until He came to the last, and then the Father saw obedience as He had never seen before. Oh, brethren! it was love that was never seen before, that He should die for the lowest - for the vilest. And that appears to be another reason why Jesus died; it is, that the Father got a vent for his love to flow out to sinners - 'Therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life.'