Daily Readings for Thursday 16th January 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 - God reneweth his covenant with Abram. Abram's name is changed in token of greater blessings. Circumcision is instituted. Sara's name is changed, and Isaac, with the blessing of a numerous issue, promised her. Abraham, his son Ishmael, and all his menservants are circumcised.
Genesis 17
Preface - The Pharisees require a sign. Jesus warneth his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and explaineth his meaning. The people's opinion, and Peter's confession, of Christ. Jesus foreshoweth his own death, and rebuketh Peter for dissuading him from it. He showeth that his followers must deny themselves in prospect of a future reward.
Matthew 16


Daily Light - Morning
It pleased the Father that in him
should all fulness dwell.

The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. - God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. - Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. - By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.

Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. - And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. - Of his fulness have all we received.
Col. 1.19; Jn. 3.35; Phil. 2.9-11; Eph. 1.21; Col. 1.16
Ro. 14.9; Col. 2.10; Jn. 1.16


Daily Light - Evening
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things
which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.

Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. - That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet. - He that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. - That your faith should nto stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Rev. 1.19; 2 Pe. 1.21; 1 Jn. 1.3
Lu. 24.39-40; Jn. 19.35
​2 Pe. 1.16; 1 Co. 2.5


A Puritans Catechism
Q 67 - What does every sin deserve?
A - Every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Civil Magistrate
Chapter 24
PARAGRAPH 3
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Civil magistrates being set up by God for the ends aforesaid; subjection, in all lawful things commanded by them, ought to be yielded by us in the Lord, not only for wrath, but for conscience' sake;(4) and we ought to make supplications and prayers for kings and all that are in authority, that under them we may live a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty. (5)
(4) Rom. 13:5-7; 1 Pet. 2:17 (5) 1 Tim. 2:1-2


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A lesson from the sun
... among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Philippians 2 v 15

It is quite right to help the heathen at home, but it is just as right to help the heathen abroad. Oh that God would free you from a narrow mind, and give you his own divine Spirit. Learn a lesson from the sun. It shines both far and near; it does not pour its beams all into one sunny valley, or on one bright land. No, it journeys on from shore to shore, pours its rich beams upon the wide ocean, on the torrid sands of Africa, and the icy coasts of Greenland. Go you and do likewise. Shine as light in the world.