Daily Readings for Thursday 31st August 2023

Prayer
-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
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
(Thursday lunch hour) - Scripture reading: - Psalm 103
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 readings
Preface - David in a cave at En-gedi cutteth off Saul's skirt, but spareth his life: he urgeth this as a proof of his innocency. Saul acknowledgeth his fault, taketh on oath of David, and departeth.
1 Samuel 24
Preface - Paul reproveth a scandalous incest committed and protected from censue in the church at Corinth; and by his authority in Christ excommunicateth the offender. The necessity of purging out the old leaven. Christians guilty of notorious crimes are not to be consorted with
1 Corinthians 5

A Puritans Catechism
Q63 - Which is the tenth commandment?
A - The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Sanctified understanding
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. - Psalm 119 v 98
​A sanctified understanding is worth all the godless wisdom of earth and of hell. What fools the wisest of natural men appear when they die. Remember that, if you be joined to Christ, you will recieve the 'spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.'