Daily Readings for Tuesday 15th April 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.)

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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 - A repetition of various laws.
Leviticus 19
23) Preface - David's confidence in God's providential care and goodness.
24) Preface - God's sovereignty over the whole world, who shall stand in his holy place. The solemn entrance of the Lord into his sanctuary.
Psalms 23-24


​Daily Light - Morning
Their Redeemer is strong.

I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins. - I have laid help upon one that is mighty. - The LORD....thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. - Mighty to save. - Able to keep you from falling. - Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - He is able....to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.

Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?.... I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor 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.
Jer. 50.34; Am. 5.12; Ps. 89.19; Isa. 49.26; Isa. 63.1; Jude. 24; Ro. 5.20
Jn. 3.18; He. 7.25
Isa. 50.2
Ro. 8.35,38-39

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Daily Light - Evening
Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. - Christ....suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.

Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing our. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Jer. 45.5; Mt. 11.29; Phil. 2.5-8
Mt. 10.38; 1 Pe. 2.21
1 Tim. 6.6-8
Phil. 4.11


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 74 - How do Baptism and the Lord's Supper become spiritually helpful?
A - Baptism and the Lord's Supper become spiritually helpful, not from any virtue in them, or in him who does administer them, but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of the Spirit in those who by faith receive them.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 4
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This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake,  (21)  and did perfectly fulfill it, and underwent the punishment due to us, which that He might discharge He was made under the law,  (22)  and did perfectly fulfill it, and underwent the punishment due to us, which we should have born and suffered,  (23)  being made sin and a curse for us;  (24)  enduring most grievous sorrows in His soul, and most painful sufferings in His body;  (25)  was crucified, and died, and remained in the state of the dead, yet saw no corruption:  (26)  on the third day He arose from the dead  (27)  with the same body in which He suffered,  (28)  with which He also ascended into heaven,  (29)  and there sits at the right hand of His Father making intercession,  (30)  and shall return to judge men and angels at the end of the world.  (31)
(21)-Ps. 40.7-8; Heb. 10.5-10; John 10.18  (22)-Gal. 4.4; Matt. 3.15  (23)-Gal. 3.13; Isa. 53.6; 1 Pet. 3.18  (24)-2 Cor. 5.21  (25)-Matt. 26.37,38; Luke 22.44; Matt. 27.46  (26)-Acts 13.37  (27)-1 Cor. 15.3-4  (28)-John 20.25.27  (29)-Mark 16.19; Acts 1.9-22  (30)-Rom. 8.34; Heb. 9.24  (31)-Acts 10.42  (31)-Acts 10.42; Rom. 14.9-10; Acts 1.11; 2 Pet. 2.4


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
An amazing weapon
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1 v 18

To ungodly men nothing appears more weak and powerless than the gospel. They regard it as Lot's sons-in-law did his solemn warning: 'He seemed as one that mocked.' It appears an idle tale, and old wife's fable; but it is in reality 'the power of God unto salvation.' The gospel is an amazing weapon, when God wields it: 'The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.' When God wields the gospel, it is mighty to awaken the hardest hearts. Paul felt this in his own experience. He was a proud blasphemer, persecutor, and injurious - a proud, self-righteous Pharisee. You would have said: 'Nothing in the world can awaken that man.' Jesus revealed Himself to him, and he fell to the ground, trembling and astonished. So he had seen it in the case of others: in Lydia and the jailer, in Sergius Paulus, the deputy of Cyprus: 'He believed, being astonished at the doctrine, of the Lord' (acts 13 v 12). 'The power of God unto salvation!' Not God's mighty arm to destroy, but His mighty arm to save.