Daily Readings for Tuesday 19th November 2024

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
Preface - By a basket of summer fruit is shewed the near approach of Israel's end. Their oppression of the poor shall cause their joy to be turned into mourning. A famine of God's word threatened.
Amos 8
Preface - The preaching and baptism of John: his testimony of Christ: Herod imprisoneth John for his free reproof. Christ is baptized, and receiveth testimony from heaven. The age and genealogy of Christ from Joseph upwards.
Luke 3


Daily Light - Morning
By their fruits ye shall know them.

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. - Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. - Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit... A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Mt. 7.20; 1 Jn. 3.7; Jas. 3.11-13; 1 Pe. 2.12
Mt. 12.33,35
Isa. 5.4


Daily Light - Evening
I will make the place of my feet glorious.

Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.

Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts... The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea... And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Isa. 60.13; Isa. 66.1
2 Chr. 6.18
Hag. 2.6-7.9
​Rev. 21.1,3


A Puritans Catechism 
​Q 9 - What is the work of creation?
A - The work of creation is God's making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10
PARAGRAPH 4
​Others not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit,12 yet not being effectually drawn by the Father, they neither will nor can truly come to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved:13 much less can men that do not receive the Christian religion be saved; be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature and the law of that religion they do profess.14
12 Matt. 22:14, 13:20–21; Heb. 6:4–5
13 John 6:44–45,65; 1 John 2:24–25
14 Acts 4:12; John 4:22, 17:3

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Infinitely better
These are they which follow the Lamb withersoever he goeth.
Revelation 14 v 4
Acquaint now thyself with Him. Come to Him; do not rest short of Him. You think it a great thing to know a lively Christian: oh! how infinitely better to know God.