Daily Readings for Tuesday 27th February

Daily 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 Thess. 5.16.)


Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (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 Readings
Preface - Job sheweth that although man may be his industry search deep into nature, yet is the wisdom and understanding of God's ways beyond his reach, being comprehended by God only. Man's wisdom is to fear God and to depart from evil.
Job 28
Preface - Prophecy for its greater tendency to edification is preferred before speaking with tongues. Tongues not understood, like indistinct musical sounds, are of no service to the hearers. All gifts should be referred to edification. Tongues are of use for the conviction of unbelievers; but in the assemblies of the church prophecy is more useful. Rules for the orderly exercise of spiritual gifts in the church. Women are forbidden to speak there. An exhortation to use each gift freely, but with decency and order.
1 Corinthians 14

Daily Light - Morning
Reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. - I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I which I now live in the flesh i live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Because I live, ye shall live also. - I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God...For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Rom 6.11. Jn 5.24; Ga 2.19,20;
Jn 14.19; Jn 10.28-30 Col 3.1-3


Daily Light - Evening
God...giveth...liberally, and upbraideth not.

Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

The grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many...The free gift is of many offences unto justification.

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, (by grace are ye saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

He that spare not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Jam 1.5; Jn 8:10-11
Rom 5.15,16
Ep 2.4-7
Ro 8.32.


A Puritans Catechism
Q77 - To whom is Baptism to be administered?
A. Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God (Acts 2:38; Matt. 3:6; Mk. 16:16; Acts 8:12, 36-37; Acts 10:47-48), and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other.


Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 4

An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation.7
7 Ps. 24:4

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Riches Untold
That in everything ye are enriched by him... - 1 Corinthians 1 v 5
Kings in olden time had immense possessions. Of one it is said, 'the sun never set on his dominions.' Solomon gathered all the peculiar treasures of kings. But a soul united to Jesus has more. He has got the pearl of great price, the clothing of wrought gold. He has God's loving-kindness, which is better than life. He can look on the hills and valleys and resplendent rivers, and say, 'My Father made them all.' 'All things are yours. Whether Paul, or Appolos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or things present, or things to come; all are yours. Having nothing, yet possessing all things.'