Daily Readings for Sunday 26 July 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 felloship 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.)


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 - An exhortation to the king's house to execute justice without oppression, enforced with promises and threats. The judgment of Shallum, of Jehoiakim, and of Coniah
Jeremiah 22
Preface - Christ miraculously feedeth four thousand persons: he refuseth the Pharisees a sign: he warneth his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod, and explaineth his meaning: he giveth a blind man sight. The people's opinions, and Peter's confession, of him: he foresheweth his own death, and rebuketh Peter for dissuading him from it: he sheweth his followers that they must deny themselves, and not be ashamed of him and his gospel.
Mark 8



Daily Light - Morning
Then cometh the end.

Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is... And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. - The coming of the Lord draweth nigh... The judge standeth before the door. - Surely I come quickly.

Seering....that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness?

The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. - Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait fo rtheir lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comeht and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
1 Co. 15.24; Mk. 13.32-33,37; 2 Pe. 3.9; Jas. 5.8,9; Rev. 22.20
2 Pe. 3.11
1 Pe. 4.7; Lu. 12.35-36


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Daily Light - Evening
Brethren, pray for us.

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him... And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up... Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

Without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers. - Always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1 Th. 5.25; Jas. 5.14,15,16-18
Eph. 6.18
​Ro. 1.9; Col. 4.12


A Puritans Catechism
Q  11 - What are God's works of providence?
A - God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 7

​Christ, in the work of mediation, acts according to both natures, by each nature doing that which is proper to itself; yet by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature is sometimes in Scripture, attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.  (37)
37) John 3:13, Acts 20:28

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Complete assurance
Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 3 v 1
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Oh, brethren, could you and I pass this day through these heavens, and see what is now going on in the sanctuary above, could you see what the child of God now sees who died last night, - could you see the Lamb with the scars of His five deep wounds in the very midst of the throne, surrounded by all the odours, - could you see the many angels round about the throne, whose number is ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, all singing, 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain,' - and were one of these angels to tell you, 'This is He that undertook the cause of lost sinners, He undertook to be the second Adam, - the man in their stead; and lo! there He is upon the throne of heaven; - consider Him, - look long and earnestly upon His wounds - upon His glory, - and tell me, do you think it would be safe to trust Him? Do you think His sufferings and obedience will have been enough? - Yes, yes, every soul exclaims, Lord, it is enough! Lord, stay thy hand! Show me no more, for I can bear no more. Oh, rather let me ever stand and gaze upon the almighty, all-worthy, all divine Saviour, till my soul drink in complete assurance that His work undertaken for sinners is a finished work! Yes, though the sins of all the world were on my one wicked head, still I could not doubt that His work is complete, and that I am quite safe when I believe in Him.