Daily Readings for Tuesday 11th June 2024

Daily Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend alone). Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


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 - God comforteth the church with gracious promises: he calleth the people to witness his omnipotency: he foretelleth the destruction of Babylon, and his wonderful deliverance of his people: he reproveth their neglect of his service.
Isaiah 43
Preface - A beast with seven heads and ten horns riseth out of the sea, to whom the dragon giveth his power, wherewith he blasphemeth God, and vexeth the saints. Another beast cometh up out of the earth, which supporteth the worship of the former beast. The number of the beast.
Revelation 13


Daily Light - Morning
He arose, and came to his father.
But when he was yet a great way off,
his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. - Ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.
Lu. 15.20; Ps. 103.8-13
Ro. 8.15-16; Eph. 2.13; Eph. 2.19


Daily Light - Evening
Behold, I make all things new.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. - If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump. - The new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.

Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into minds. - seeing...that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...?
Rev. 21.5; Jn. 3.3; 2 Co. 5.17
Ezek. 36.26; 1 Co. 5.7; Eph. 4.24
Isa. 62.2
Isa. 65.17; 2 Pe. 3.11


A Puritans Catechism
Q 13 - Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
A - Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from that initial state wherein they were created, by sinning against God, by eating the forbidden fruit.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 1

Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing Christ's active obedience unto the whole law, and passive obedience in his death for their whole and sole righteousness by faith, which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God.

1. Romans 3:24 
2. Romans 8:30 
3. Romans 4:5-8 
4. Ephesians 1:7 
5. 1 Corinthians 1:30,31 
6. Romans 5:17-19 
7. Philippians 3:8,9 
8. Ephesians 2:8-10 
9. John 1:12 
10. Romans 5:17

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The same love
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:
continue ye in my love - John 15 v 9
The moment you become a child, the Father loves you. This is shown in what Christ said to Mary: 'I ascend unto my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.' Christ here intimated, that we have the same love that he had. We have not got so much of the love of the Father as Christ, because He has got an infinite capacity; but it is the same love. The sun shines as much upon the daisy as it does upon the sunflower, though the sunflower is able to contain more. Christ plainly shows you that in the 17th chapter of John, where He prays that the same love may be in us that was in Him. O how much better is it then, to be under the love of God, than under the wrath of God.!