Daily Readings for Thursday 26th December 2024

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
Preface - The fountain of purification for Jerusalem. The eradication of idolatry and false prophecy. The death of Christ, and the saving of a third part after a severe trial.
Zachariah 13
Preface - Christ warneth his disciples of their sufferings for his sake: he comforteth them by a promise of the Holy Ghost: he intimateth his death, resurrection, and ascension, telling them that their sorrow should soon be succeeded by joy, and that their prayers in his name would be accepted of the Father: his disciples confess their faith in him; he foretelleth their desertion of him, and promiseth them peace in him amidst their tribulation in the world.
John 16


Daily Light - Morning
Be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord.

Ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. - As ye have...received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. - He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. - That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

By faith ye stand.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not, as we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
1 Co. 15.58; Col. 2.6-7; Mt. 24.13; Lu. 8.15
2 Co. 1.24
Jn. 9.4
Ga. 6.8-10


Daily Light - Evening
He is able...
to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him.

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. - He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. - Is any thing too hard for the LORD?

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
He. 7.25; Jn. 14.6; Ac. 4.12
Jn. 10.27-28; Phil. 1.6; Ge. 18.14
Jude 24.25


​A Puritans Catechism
Q 46 - What is forbidden in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment forbids the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word.

The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Gospel and the Extent of Grace Thereof
Chapter 20
PARAGRAPH 1
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​The covenant of works being broken by sin, and made unprofitable unto life, God was pleased to give forth the promise of Christ, the seed of the woman, as the means of calling the elect, and begetting in them faith and repentance;1 in this promise the gospel, as to the substance of it, was revealed, and [is] therein effectual for the conversion and salvation of sinners.2
1 Gen. 3:15
2 Rev. 13:8


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Holiness and your Bible
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17 v 17

Jesus is the author of sanctification; but there are many looking to the wrong airt for it. Now, all comes from the same hand that was nailed to the cross; look to Him for sanctification - His name is Jesus, for He saves from sin. Oh, do any feel faint and weary? Lean on Him, the Beloved: all comes from Jesus. You may as well try to hold up the sun in its course, as to hold up your own goings. Go, then, to Jesus for all you need: learn the means of sanctification - the Word. No holiness without the Bible. I believe God could sanctify without the Word. He made the angels holy without it, and He made Adam holy without it; but He will not do it. 'Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth.' Just like a mother nourishing a child, Jesus takes a soul and nourishes it with the milk of the word. No life without a Bible. It is just the breathings of God's heart - of His affectionate bosom. Oh, yes, if you would walk much with Jesus, you would become like Him. Oh, you would get the heart and likeness of Jesus. There are some believers, and you may know them by their breath that they have been with Emmanuel, the lovely Rose of Sharon. Learn then, that there are no other means of sanctification, and without holiness no man shall see the Lord. - Unless you love your Bibles, and feed upon them, you will never stand with the Lamb upon Mount Zion, with the golden harps.