Daily Readings for Sunday 27th August 2023

Prayer
- God 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 thee are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.)
- Pray we would be granted faithful ministry and good spiritual food from God's Word. (1 Peter 2.2.)

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 Reading
Preface - Jonathan discloseth to David his father's purpose to kill him. He persuadeth his father to a reconciliation. Saul, jealous of David's good success in a new war, again seeketh to slay him; he saveth himself by flight. Saul's messengers come to David's house to slay him; Michal favoureth his escape, and deceiveth her father by an image in the bed. David cometh to Samuel to Naioth; he is pursued; the spirit of prophecy cometh upon Saul's messengers, and upon Saul.
1 Samuel 19
Preface - After saluting the church at Corinth, and thanking God for his grace toward them, Paul exhorteth them to unity, and reproveth their dissensions. The plain doctrine of the gospel, however foolish in the eyes of the world, is the power and wisdom of God to the salvation of believers. God, to take away human boasting, hath not called the wise, the mighty, the noble; but the foolish, the weak, the despised among men. Christ is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
1 Corinthians 1

A Puritans Catechism
Q60 - What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
A - The eighth commandment forbids whatever does, or may unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbour's wealth or outward estate.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A vessel unto honour
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. 2 Timothy 2 v 21
I often pray, Lord, make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be made.