Daily Readings for Thursday 10th April 2025

Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part       of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.



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 rites and sacrifices in cleansing the leper. The signs of leprosy in a house. The cleansing of that house.
Leviticus 14
Preface - David appealeth to God for his innocence, and prayeth to be saved from his enemies: he sheweth their pride and eagerness to ruin him: he prayeth against worldly men, expressing his own confidence in God.
Psalms 17


Daily Light - Morning
I am black, but comely.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. - Thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

I am a sinful man, O Lord. - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair.

I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. - Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

When I would do good, evil is present with me. - Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. - Ye are complete in him. - Perfect in Christ Jesus.

Ye are washed....ye are sanctified....ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. - That ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Song 1.5; Ps. 51.5; Ezek. 16.14
Lu. 5.8; Song 4.1
Job 42.6; Song 4.7
Ro. 7.21; Mt. 9.2
Ro. 7.18; Col. 2.10; Col. 1.28
1 Co. 6.11; 1 Pe. 2.9



Daily Light - Evening
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.  And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. - Whosoever....will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.... The servant is not greater than his lord. - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
2 Tim. 3.12; Mt. 10.35-36; Jas. 4.4; 1 Jn. 2.15-16
​Jn. 15.18-20; Jn. 17.14


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 69 - What is baptism?
A - Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptized a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being ingrafted into him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Covenant
Chapter 7
PARAGRAPH 1
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The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to Him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which He hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.  (1).
(1)-Luke 17.10; Job 35.7-8



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Not ashamed
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 1 v 16

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. More is meant in these words than is expressed. He does not mean only that he was not ashamed of the gospel, but that he glorified in it. It is very similar to Galatians 6 v 14: 'But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.' Two things are implied in this.
Firstly, Paul was not ashamed of it before God. He had ventured his own soul on this way of Salvation. He could say, like David, 'This is all my salvation, this is all my desire.' The way of salvation by Jehovah our Righteousness was sweet to Paul. His soul rested there with great delight. He came thus to God in secret, thus in public, thus in dying. He hoped to stand before God through all eternity clothed in this divine righteousness. Secondly, he was not ashamed of it before men. Though all the world had been against him, Paul would have gloried in this way of salvation. He had a burning desire to make it known to other men. He felt it so sweet, he saw it to be so glorious, that he could have desired a voice so loud that all men might hear at one moment the way of salvation by Christ.