Daily Readings for Tuesday 7th January 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 - Noah receiveth command from God, and entereth into the ark with his family and the living creatures. The beginning of the flood as soon as they are entered. Its continual increase for forty days. All flesh is destroyed by it, its duration.
Genesis 7
Preface - Christ proceedeth in his sermon to condemn rash judgment, forbiddeth the prostitution of holy things; recommendeth prayer; exhorteth to enter in at the strait gate; to beware of false prophets, who may be known by their fruits; and not to be his disciples in profession only, but in practice; he compareth doers of the word to houses built on a rock, those that are hearers only to houses built on the sand. Christ endeth his sermon: the people are astonished at his doctrine.
Matthew 7


Daily Light - Morning
Think upon me, my God, for good.

Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness. - I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and i will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.  - I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you. - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. - I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number. - Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works ​which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Ne. 5.19; Jer. 2.2; Ezek. 16.60; Jer. 29.10; Jer. 29.11
Isa. 55.9; Job 5.8-9; Ps. 40.5


Daily Light - Evening
I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee,

There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. - God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

The LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him. - He will ever be mindful of his covenant.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.

The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Jos. 1.5; Jos. 21.45; Nu. 23.19
Deu. 7.9; Ps. 111.5
Isa. 49.15-16
Zeph. 3.17


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 58 - What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
A - The seventh commandment forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 6
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Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the gospel, tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed; but God is to be worshiped everywhere in spirit and in truth; (23) as in private families. (27)  daily; (25) and in secret each one by himself; (26) and so more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly nor willfully to be neglected or forsaken, when God by his word or providence calls thereunto. (27)
(23) John 4.21; Mat. 1:11; 1 Tim. 2:8  (24) Acts 10:2  (25) Matt. 6:11; Ps. 55:17  (26) Matt. 6:6 (27) Heb. 10:25; Act 2:42


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Christ, the key to the Scriptures
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke 24 v 27

When you are reading a book in a dark room and find it difficult, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bible to Christ. I thirst for the knowledge of the word, but most of all of Jesus Himself, the true Word.