Daily Readings for Sunday 15th June 2025

Daily Prayer - Sunday
Sunday
Give thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever.
Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another.
Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.).
Pray we would receive faithful ministry and spiritual food from God’s Word (1 Pet 2.2.)
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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 - The priest's exhortation before the battle. The officers' Proclamation signifying who are to be dismissed. How the cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of peace are to be treated. The cities of the seven nations are devoted to utter destruction. Trees good for food must not be cut down in the siege.
Deuteronomy 20
Preface - The Psalmist exhorteth God's redeemed to praise his goodness, particularly in his providence over travellers, captives, sick men, seamen, and in the prosperity and affliction of whole countries.
Psalms 107



Daily Light - Morning
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God:
but those things which are revealed belong unto us.

LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine yes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. - THere is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets. - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?

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. - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth.
Deu. 29.29; Ps. 131.1-2
Ps. 25.14; Dan. 2.28; Job 26.14
Jn. 15.15; Jn. 14.15-17



Daily Light - Evening
The Spirit....
maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will of God.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, 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. - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.

This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. - This is the will of God, even your sanctification.

God hath....called us....unto holiness....who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit.
Ro. 8.27; Jn. 16.23-24; Eph. 6.18
1 Jn. 5.14-15; 1 Th. 4.3
1 Th. 4.7,8
1 Th. 5.16-19
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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 53 - What is required in the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience
Chapter 21
PARAGRAPH 3
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They who upon pretense of Christian liberty do practice any sin, or cherish any sinful lust, as they do thereby pervert the main design of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction,  (16)  so they wholly destroy the end of Christian liberty, which is, that being delivered out of the hands of all our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our lives.  (17)
(16)-Rom. 6.1-2  (17)-Gal. 5.13; 2 Pet. 2.18,21
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
This was His love
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 5 v 21

He hath made him to be sin for us. THis is described in the Bible in a great many different ways. In the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah it is said, 'All we like sheep have gone astray, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all'; and, verse 10, 'it pleased the Lord to bruise him,' etc. The same thing is described to us by Peter, in 1 Peter 2 v 24, 'Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.' But in this passage you will observe it is described in a far more dreadful manner. He heaped upon His Son all our sins until there was nothing but sin to be seen. He appeared all sin; nothing of His own beauty appeared; God took Him as if He were entirely made up of sin. You know that unconverted men are all sin. You say you have many good things about you; you are sometimes light in your walk, and take a glass occasionally; 'but I'm a good fellow after all.' Ah, you do not know that you are one mass of sin; your mind, your understanding, your affections, and your conscience. Brethren, look at the love of Christ, that He should be willing to be made sin for us, and this was His love.