Daily Readings for Tuesday 4th February 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.)


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 history of Joseph, who is hated of his brethren. His first dream. His second dream. Jacob sendeth him to visit his brethren. They conspire his death, but Reuben saveth him. He is cast into a pit, and afterwards taken out, and sold to the Ishmeelites. Reuben, not finding him in the pit, is sorely grieved. Jacob deceived by the bloody coat mourneth for him. He is sold to Potiphar in Egypt.
Genesis 37
Preface - The Pharisees finding fault with his disciples for eating with unwashed hands, Christ reproveth them of hypocrisy, and of making void the commandments of God by the traditions of men: he teacheth that a man is defiled, not by that which entereth in, but by that which cometh out of him: he healeth the daughter of a Syrophenician woman; and a man that was deaf and had a speech impediment.
Mark 7



​Daily Light - Morning
The LORD hath said unto you,
Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

Truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. - Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. - The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. - No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and i unto the world. - Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you.

He which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Deu. 17.16; He. 11.15-16; He. 11.25-26; He. 10.38-39; Lu. 9.62
Ga. 6.14; 2 Co. 6.17
Phil. 1.6

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Daily Light - Evening
They talk to the grief of
those whom thou hast wounded.

I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

He which coverteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. - Comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Let us not....judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. - We....that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

​Charity....rejoiceth not in iniquity. - Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Ps. 69.26; Zech. 1.15
Ga. 6.1
Jas. 5.20; 1 Th. 5.14
Ro. 14.13; Ro. 15.1
1 Co. 13.4,6; 1 Co. 10.12



A Puritans Catechism
Q 4 - What is God?
A - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 7
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To each of these churches therefore gathered, according to his mind declared in his word, he has given all that power and authority, which is in any way needful for their carrying on that order in worship and discipline, which he has instituted for them to observe; with commands and rules for the due and right exerting, and executing of that power. (14) 

(14) Matt. 18:17-18; 1 Cor. 5:4-5,13, 2 Cor. 2:6-8
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A peculiar people
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord ....
​2 Corinthians 6 v 17

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people (Hosea 7 v 8). This was the peculiar character of the Jews: 'The people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.' But when they mixed themselves among the nations, then grey hairs began to appear. So it is with Christians, they are a peculiar people. Jesus said of them: 'They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.' We are as completely separated from the world as Christ was; we have got his blood upon us, and the Holy Spirit in us; we have peculiar joys and peculiar sorrows; we are a praying people, a praising people. But the moment we begin to mix with the ungodly, grey hairs begin to appear our souls wither.