Daily Readings for Thursday 6th 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 - Joseph is advanced in Potiphar's house. He resisteth his mistress's temptation, is falsely accused by her, and cast in prison. God is with him there.
Genesis 39
Preface - The transfiguration of Christ: he instructeth his disciples concerning the coming of Elias: he casteth out a dumb and deaf spirit: he foretelleth his own death and resurrection; checketh the ambition of his disciples; biding them to hinder no one from working miracles in his name, and warning them to avoid offences.
Mark 9


Daily Light - Morning
The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant 
with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. - Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. - knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. - According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
1 Tim. 1.14; 2 Co. 8.9; Ro. 5.20
Eph. 2.7-9; Ga. 2.16; Titus 3.5-6



Daily Light - Evening
I am....the bright and morning star.

There shall come a Star out of Jacob.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. - Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return come.

I am the light of the world. - I will give him the morning star.

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore....lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Rev. 22.16; Nu. 24.17
Ro. 13.12; Song 2.17
Isa. 21.11-12
Jn. 8.12; Rev. 2.28
​Mk. 13.33-37



A Puritans Catechism
Q 6 - How many persons are there in the Godhead?
A - There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 9
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The way appointed by Christ for the calling of any persons, fitted and gifted by the Holy Spirit, unto the office of bishop or elder in a church, is, that he be chosen thereunto by the common suffrage of the church itself;  (16)  and solemnly set apart by fasting and prayer, with imposition of hands of the eldership of the church, if there be any before constituted therein; (17) and of a deacon that he be chosen by the like suffrage, and set apart by prayer, and the like imposition of hands. (18)
(16) Acts 14-23  (17) 1 Tim. 4.14  (18) Acts 6:3,5-6



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Growing days
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, no speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord.
​Isaiah 58 v 13 & 14

There was a time when Sabbath days were growing days. Hungry souls came to the Word, and went away filled with good things. They came like Martha, and went away like Mary. They came like Samson, when his locks were shorn, and went away like Samson when his locks were grown.