Daily Readings for Thursday 13th February 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 - Jacob is comforted by God at Beer-sheba. He goeth thence with his family into Egypt. The number of those that went with him. Joseph meeteth Jacob. He instructeth his brethren how to answer Pharaoh.
Genesis 46
Preface - Christ's resurrection is declared by angels to the two Marys and Salome. Christ himself appeareth to Mary Magdalene; to two of his disciples going into the country: and to the eleven; whom he commissioneth to preach the gospel to all the world: his accension into heaven; the gospel is preached every where, the Lord confirming the word with signs.
Mark 16


Daily Light - Morning
Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as
the appearance of a man above upon it.

The man Christ Jesus. - Made in the likeness of men....found in fashion as a man. - Forasmuch....as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that throught death he might destroy him that had the power of death.

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore. - Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. - What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? - He raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places. - In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God.
Ezek. 1.26; 1 Tim. 2.5; Phil. 2.7,8; He. 2.14
Rev. 1.18; Ro. 6.9-10; Jn. 6.62; Eph. 1.20; Col. 2.9
2 Co. 13.4



Daily Light - Evening
Thy word hath quickened me.

The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself. - I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men....As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. - The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Ps. 119.50; 1 Co. 15.45
Jn. 5.26; Jn. 11.25-26
Jn. 1.4,12-13
​Jn. 6.63; He. 4.12



A Puritans Catechism
Q 13 - Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
A - Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from that initial state wherein they were created, by sinning against God, by eating the forbidden fruit.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Communion of Saints
Chapter 27
PARAGRAPH 1
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All saints that are united to Jesus Christ, their head, by his Spirit, and faith, although they are not made thereby one person with him, have fellowship in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory;  (1)  and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each others gifts and graces,  (2)  and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private, in an orderly way, as do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.  (3)
(1)  1 John 1.3; John 1.16; Phil. 3.10; Rom. 6.5-6;  (2)  Eph. 4.15-16; 1 Cor. 12.7, 3.21-23  (3)  1 Thess. 5.11-14; Rom. 1.12; 1 John 3.17-18; Gal. 6.10



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The spring of the soul
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born....In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
Zechariah 12 v 10, 13 v 1

In these words you have a description of the conversion of the Jews, which is yet to come - an event that will give life to this dead world. But God's method is the same in the conversion of any soul. Conversion is the most glorious work of God. The creation of the sun is a very glorious work - when God first rolled him flaming along the sky, scattering out golden blessings on every shore. The change in spring is very wonderful - when God makes the faded grass revive, the dead trees put out green leaves, and the flowers appear on the earth. But far more glorious and wonderful is the conversion of a soul! It is the creation of a sun that is to shine for eternity; it is the spring of the soul that shall know no winter; the planting of a tree that shall bloom with eternal beauty in the paradise of God.