Daily Readings for Tuesday 22nd 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 - Against idolatry. A blessing is promised to them that keep the commandments. A curse is denounced against those that break them. God promiseth to remember those that repent.
Leviticus 26
Preface - The faithful are called upon to praise God for his goodness; for his power seen in his works of creation, and in the stability of his counsel; and for his providence, and especial care over good men. Confidence is therefore to be placed in God.
Psalms 33


​Daily Light - Morning
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd,
let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it
of his own voluntary will.... And he shall put his hand
upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be
accepted for him to make atonement for him.

God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. - Behold the Lamb of God, which takeht away the sin of the world. - We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. - A ransom for many.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. - I will love them freely. - The Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. - He hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Lev. 1.3,4; Ge. 22.8; Jn. 1.29; He. 10.10; Mt. 20.28
Jn. 10.18; Hos. 14.4; Ga. 2.20
2 Co. 5.21; Eph. 1.6

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Daily Light - Evening
Great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast
delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.... I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. - They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: (for the redemption of their soul is precious....) - I have found a ransom. - God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Ps. 86.13; Mt. 10.28
Isa. 43.1,11,25; Ps. 49.6-8; Job 33.24; Eph. 2.4-5
​Ac. 4.12


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 81 - What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?
A - It is required of them who would worthily partake of the Lord's Supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord's body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Free Will
Chapter 9
PARAGRAPH 3
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Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation;  (4)  so as a natural man, being altogether a verse from that good, and dead in sin,  (5)  is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.  (6)
(4)-Rom. 5.6, 8.7  (5)-Eph. 2.1,5  (6)-Titus 3.3-5; John 6.44



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The comforter
Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.
Romans 15 v 30

It is curious to remark, that wherever the Holy Ghost is spoken of in the Bible, He is spoken of in terms of gentleness and love. We often read of the wrath of God the Father, as in Romans 1 v 18 'The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.' And we often read of the wrath of God the Son: 'Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way;' or, 'Revealed from heaven taking vengeance.' But we nowhere read of the wrath of God the Holy Ghost.
He is compared to a dove, the gentlest of all creatures. He is warm and gentle as the breath: 'Jesus breathed on them, and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.' He is gentle as the falling dew: 'I will be as the dew unto Israel.' He is soft and gentle as oil; for He is called, 'The oil of gladness.' The fine oil wherewith the high priest was anointed was a type of the Spirit. He is gentle and refreshing as the springing well: 'The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life.' He is called 'The Spirit of grace and of supplications.'
He is nowhere called the Spirit of wrath. He is called the 'Holy Ghost, which is the Comforter.' Nowhere is he called the Avenger. We are told that He groans within the heart of a believer, 'helping his infirmities;' so that He greatly helps the believer in prayer. We are told also of the love of the Spirit - nowhere of the wrath of the Spirit. We are told of His being grieved: 'Grieve not the Holy Spirit;' of His being resisted: 'Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost;' of His being quenched: 'Quench not the Spirit.' But these are all marks of gentleness and love.
Nowhere will you find one mark of anger or of vengeance attributed to Him; and yet, brethren, when this blessed Spirit begins His work of love, mark how He begins - He convinces of sin. Even He, all-wise, almighty, all-gentle and loving though he be, cannot persuade a poor sinful heart to embrace the Saviour, without first opening up His wounds and convincing him that he is lost.