Daily Readings for Sunday 25 January 2026

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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer.



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - By advice of his servants Ahasuerus appointeth the fair virgins of his kingdom to be assembled in order to choose out a queen. Esther brought up by Mordecai. She is preferred by Hegai keeper of the women before all the other virgins, but by Mordecai's directions telleth not her kindred. The manner of purification and going in unto the king. Esther pleaseth him, and is made queen. Mordecai discovereth a plot against the king's life, which service is registered in the chronicles of the kingdom.
Esther 2
Preface - The Jews accuse Paul to Festus, first at Jerusalem, and afterward at Caesarea: he answereth for himself, and appealeth to Caesar: his appeal is admitted. Festus being visited by king Agrippa openeth the matter to him, who desireth to hear Paul. Paul is brought forth; Festus declareth he found nothing in him worthy of death.
Acts 25



Daily Light - Morning
The righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. - Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. - Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.

I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.
Ro. 3.22; 2 Co. 5.21; Ga. 3.13; 1 Co. 1.30; Titus 3.5-6
Phil. 3.8-9

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Daily Light - Evening
The Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Jesus....lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father....Holy Father.... O righteous Father. - He said, Abba, Father. - Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. - For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

Doubtless thou art our father....thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children.
Ro. 8.15; Jn. 17.1,11,25; Mk. 14.36; Ga. 4.6; Eph. 2.18-19
Isa. 63.16
Lu. 15.18-20
​Eph. 5.1

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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 76 - To whom is Baptism to be administered?
A - Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 3
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The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings.  (6)
6 Luke 24-27,44; Rom. 3.2



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Lord from heaven
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15 v 47

The first Adam was fair, exquisitely fair, as he came from the hand of God; but the second is altogether lovely - fairer than the children of men.
The first Adam was made in the likeness of God; but the second is God Himself, the Lord from heaven - the brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image of His person.
The first Adam was full of heavenly wisdom, so that he named all the creatures as they came; but in the second are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. He is the wisdom of God. He spake as never man spake. He calls all the stars by their names.
The first was the head of the whole human race - the federal head; so that in him they stood, and in him they fell. Christ is offered as a head to every creature, and is actually the head of all the redeemed, and of myriads of holy angels, all gathered together in him.
O glorious one! Divine and human perfections meet in Him! O that you were filled with sweet, admiring, adoring thoughts of Him this day! O that He would rise upon you like the sun! He is the Light of the world, the Sun of righteousness, the bright and morning Star. It is that one who justifies the ungodly, who has power to forgive sins. He is precious to all that believe.