Daily Readings for Tuesday 14th January 2025

Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness.
- Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation.
- Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes. 5.16.)


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 - God encourageth Abram, who complaineth for want of an heir; God promiseth him a son, and a numerous seed. He is justified by his faith. The promise of Canaan is renewed, and confirmed to him by a sign and a vision.
Genesis 15
Preface - Herod's opinion of Christ. The cause and manner of John the Baptist's death. Jesus departeth into a desert place, and feedeth there five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes. He walketh on the sea to his disciples: and landing at Gennesaret healeth the sick who touched but the hem of his garment.
Matthew 14


​Daily Light - Morning
My Father is greater than I.

When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven. - I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. - As the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. - The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. - Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us, Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? - I and my Father are one. - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Jn. 14.28; Lu. 11.2; Jn. 20.17; Jn. 14.31; Jn. 14.10
Jn. 3.35; Jn. 17.2
Jn. 14.8-10; Jn. 10.30; Jn. 15.9-10


Daily Light - Evening
I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men. - He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

This is your hour, and the power of darkness. - Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above.

The Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. - He....cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. - In my name shall they cast out devils.

The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
Ge. 3.15; Isa. 52.14; Isa. 53.5
Lu. 22.53; Jn. 19.11
1 Jn. 3.8; Mk. 1.34
Mt. 28.18; Mk. 16.17
Ro. 16.20


A Puritans Catechism
Q 65 - Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
A - No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 5
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A vow, which is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone, is to be made and performed with all religious care and faithfulness;  (8) but popish monastical vows of perpetual single life, (9) professed poverty, (10) poverty and regular obedience, are so far from being degrees of higher perfection, that they are superstitious and sinful snares, in which no Christian may entangle himself. (11)
(8) Ps. 76.11, Gen. 28:20-22 (9) 1 Cor. 7:2.9 (10) Eph. 4:28 (11) Matt. 19:1
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Unchanging love
... having loved his own which were in the world,
he loved them unto the end.
John 13 v 1

A mother's love is, of all creature-love, the most unchangeable. A boy leaves his parent's roof, he crosses a thousand seas, he labours beneath a foreign sky; he comes back, he finds his aged mother changed, her head is grey, her venerable brow is furrowed with age; still he feels while she clasps him to her bosom, that her heart is the same. But ah! far more unchanging is the love of God to Christ, and to a soul in Christ: 'I am the Lord; I change not.' The Father that loves has no variableness. Jesus, who is loved, is the same yesterday, today, and for ever: How can that love change? It flowed before the world was; it will flow when the world has passed away.
If you are in Christ, that love shines on you: 'I have loved thee with an everlasting love.' 'I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, not things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'