Daily Readings for Tuesday 29th 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 - The law of the Nazarite in the days of his separation, and after the completion of those days. The form of blessing the people.
Numbers 6
Psalms 40) Preface - David from his own experience sheweth the benefit of trust in God. Obedience the most acceptable sacrifice. David's grateful return of praise: he prayeth for salvation to himself, and confusion to his enemies.
Psalms 41) Preface - The recompence of the charitable man. David prayeth for mercy, complaining of the treachery of his enemies and apostate friends: he acknowledgeth God's favour, and blesseth him.
Psalms 40-41

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​Daily Light - Morning
Consider how great things he hath done for you.

Thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.... Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.... It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.... I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. - The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. - He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor reward us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.... He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
1 Sa. 12.24; Deu. 8.2,5
Ps. 119.67,71,75; Ps. 118.18; Ps. 103.10-11,14

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Daily Light - Evening
That blessed hope....the glorious appearing of the
great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus. - Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things. - When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe.

The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also....groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. - When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Titus 2.13; He. 6.19-20; Ac. 3.21; 2 Th. 1.10
Ro. 8.22-23; 1 Jn. 3.2; Col. 3.4
​Rev. 22.20


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 6 - How many persons are there in the Godhead?
A - There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Justification
Chapter 11
PARAGRAPH 1
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Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies,  (1)  not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous;  (2)  not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone;  (3)  not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing Christ's active obedience unto the whole law, and passive obedience in his death for their whole and sole righteousness by faith,  (4)  which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God.  (5)
(1)-Rom. 3.24, 8.30  (2)-Rom. 4.5-8; Eph. 1.7  (3)-1 Cor. 1.30-31; Rom. 5.17-19  (4)-Phil.3.8-9; Eph. 2.8-10  (5)-John 1.12; Rom. 5.17



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The Saviour's silence
He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:
Isaiah 53 v 7

Before the world was, He entered into covenant with His Father, that He would stand as a substitute for sinners; and therefore when He did come to suffer, His very righteousness sustained Him, and He set His face like a flint. When a feeble man undertakes some hard piece of service, very often he is loud and boastful before he begins; but when he comes up to the point, his courage dies, and he goes away back from his word. Not so the Son of God. He had sworn that he would bear the curse that was hanging over sinners. He had struck hands with the eternal Father He would be their Jonah, to lie down under their sea of wrath: 'Take me up,' he said,' and cast me into that sea of wrath.' And so, when the waves and billows went over Him, he did not cry nor murmur. He set His face steadfastly. He had sworn once by His holiness, and He would not turn from it. He would not alter the thing that had gone out of His lips. 'He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.'