Daily Readings for Thursday 27th 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.  


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Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - God threateneth to send locusts. Pharaoh at the urgent entreaty of his servants is inclined to let the Israelites go, but at length refuseth. The plague of locusts. Pharaoh again entreateth Moses, getteth them removed, and is hardened. The plague of darkness. Pharaoh entreateth Moses again, but still is hardened.
Exodus 10
Preface - Christ sheweth that temporal calamities are no sure signs of sinfulness, but that others should take warning by them, and repent. The parable of the fig tree that was ordered to be cut down for being fruitless. Christ healeth a woman that had been long bowed together, and putteth the hypocritical ruler of the synagogue to silence: he likeneth the progress of the gospel to a grain of mustard seed; and to leaven: being asked of the number of the saved, he exhorteth to strive to enter in at the strait gate: he will not be diverted from his course through fear of Herod; and lamenteth over the approaching desolation of Jerusalem.
Luke 13



Daily Light - Morning
Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. - I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Because I live, ye shall live also. - I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.... For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Ro. 6.11; Jn. 5.24; Ga. 2.19-20
Jn. 14.19; Jn. 10.28-30
Col. 3.1,3




Daily Light - Evening
God....giveth....liberally, and upbraideth not.

Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

The grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.... The free gift is of many offences unto justification.

God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Jas. 1.5; Jn. 8.10-11
Ro. 5.15,16
Eph. 2.4-7
​Ro. 8.32



A Puritans Catechism
Q 27 - Wherein consists Christ's exaltation?
A - Christ's exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day. 

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Lords Supper
Chapter 30
PARAGRAPH 7
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Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this ordinance, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually receive, and feed upon Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death; the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally, but spiritually present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.  (11)
(11)   Cor. 10.16, 11.23-26



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Counterfeit conversion
The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne....
Revelation 4 v 10

It is the clear mark of a hypocrite, that he is willing to cast his crown at the feet of a creature. Every jewel has its counterfeit, so there is a counterfeit conversion. Satan often changes people, and makes them think they are converted. These will give the glory to man. They cast their crown at the feet of a fellow worm and say, To him be glory. But one who is truly saved looks far above man, to Jesus, and says, 'To Him be glory.' A man healed by the brazen serpent would never attribute it to the pole, or the man that held it. He would look steadily to the blazing sign that God had set up. A man saved by Jesus will say to all eternity, To him be glory - 'Salvation to our God.' And when he comes into the New Jerusalem, he will not stop to look at the angels, nor fondly gaze on the redeemed, but will hasten to where Jesus sits, and fall down and worship and adore Him, casting his crown at His feet, and crying, 'Thou art worthy - Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.'