Daily Readings for Tuesday 20th January 2026

Prayer - Tuesday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer. 



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - The names of those that sealed the covenant, which the rest of the people bound themselves to observe according to the several particulars enumerated.
Nehemiah 10
Preface - Paul goeth to Macedonia, and having passed over various countries cometh to Troas; where, as he preached long, Eutychus falleth out of a window, and is taken up dead: Paul restoreth him to life. He continueth his travels; at Miletus he calleth to him the elders of the church of Ephesus, and taketh a solemn and affectionate leave of them, exhorting them to look well to their charge, and commending them to God's grace: he prayeth with them, and departeth.
Acts 20



​Daily Light - Morning
His name shall be called Wonderful.

The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. - Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. - JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

All men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. - God....hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. - Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet. - He had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself....KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out. - What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Isa. 9.6; Jn. 1.14; Ps. 138.2
Mt. 1.23; Mt. 1.21
Jn. 5.23; Phil. 2.9; Eph. 1.21-22; Rev. 19.12,16
Job 37.23; Pro. 30.4


Daily Light - Evening
The LORD's portion is his people.

Ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. - I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. I am his. - The Son of God....loved me, and gave himself for me.

Know ye not that....ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. - The LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

Ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. - Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. - A spiritual house, an holy priesthood.

They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels. - All mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. - The glory of his inheritance in the saints.
Deu. 32.9; 1 Co. 3.23; Song 7.10; Song 2.16; Ga. 2.20
1 Co. 6.19-20; Deu. 4.20
1 Co. 3.9; He. 3.6; 1 Pe. 2.5
​Mal. 3.17; Jn. 17.10; Eph. 1.18


A Puritans Catechism
Q 71 - What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?
A - The outward and ordinary means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of Christ's redemption, are the Word, by which souls are begotten to spiritual life; Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Prayer, and Meditation, by all which believers are further edified in their most holy faith.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
​Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 5
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We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church of God to a high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scriptures; and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, and the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is to give all glory to God), the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, and many other incomparable excellencies, and entire perfections thereof, are arguments whereby it does abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God; yet notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth, and divine authority thereof, is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts.  (8)
8 - John 16:13-14; 1 Cor. 2.10-12; 1 John 2:20,27



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The grand object
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5 v 27

Some are afraid they will never be holy: 'I shall fall under my sin' You shall be made holy. It was for this Christ died. This was the grand object he had in view. This was what was in his eye - to build a holy Church out of a world of lost sinners; to pluck brands out of the fire and make them trees of righteousness; to choose poor, black souls, and make them fair brothers and sisters round his throne. Christ will not lose this object.
Look up, then - be not afraid. He redeemed you to make you holy. Though you had a million of worlds opposing you, he will do it. 'He is faithful, who also will do it.'