Daily Readings for Tuesday 18th March 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 - The sacrifice and ceremonies of consecrating the priests. The continual burnt offering. God's promise to sanctify and dwell among the children of Israel.
Exodus 29
Preface - Christ letteth the woman taken in adultery go uncondemned: he declareth himself to be the light of the world, and justifieth his doctrine against the Pharisees: he promiseth freedom through knowledge of the truth to those Jews who believed on him: confuteth their vain boast of being Abraham's seed, and the children of God: answereth their reviling by shewing his authority and dignity; and by miracle rescueth himself from their attempts to stone him.
John 8



​Daily Light - Morning
Mine eyes fail with looking upward.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. - My heart is sore pained within me: and the terror of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Ye have need of patience.

While they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. - Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. - That blessed hope....the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Isa. 38.14; Ps. 6.2-4; Ps. 55.4-6
He. 10.36
Ac. 1.10-11; Phil. 3.20; Titus 2.13

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Daily Light - Evening
His name shall be in their foreheads.

I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep. - The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. - Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance. - Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God: who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. - This is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Rev. 22.4; Jn. 10.14; 2 Tim. 2.19
Na. 1.7; Rev. 7.3
Eph. 1.13-14; 2 Co. 1.21-22
​Rev. 3.12; Jer. 33.16


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 46 - What is forbidden in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment forbids the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God and of the Holy Trinity
Chapter 2
PARAGRAPH 3
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In this divine and infinite Being there are three subsistences, the Father, the Word, or Son, and Holy Spirit,  (27)  of one substance, power, and eternity, each having the whole divine essence, yet the essence undivided:  (28)  the Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father;  (29)  the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son;  (30)  all infinite, without beginning, therefore but one God, who is not to be divided in nature and being, but distinguished by several peculiar relative properties and personal relations; which doctrine of the Tinity is the foundation of all our communion with God, and comfortable dependence on Him.

((27)-1 John 5.7; Matt. 28.19; 2 Cor. 13.14  (28)-Exod. 3.14; John 14.11; 1 Cor. 8.6  (29)-John 1.14,18  (30)-John 15.26; Gal. 4.6
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Psalm 119 v 63

In choosing connections or friends, O choose with regard to this will they help or hinder your prayers? Will they go with you, and help you on your journey? Or will they be a drag upon your wheels? In going into companies, in reading books, choose with regard to this - will they fill your sails for heaven? If not, go not near them. In yielding to your affections, especially if you find them hindering your journey, drop them instantly. Never mind the consequences.
'If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to be cast into hell-fire'.
'Wherefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus.'