Daily Readings for Tuesday 8th 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
11) Preface - What beasts may, and what may not be eaten: what fishes: what fowls: the creeping things which are unclean.
12) Preface - The purification of a woman after childbirth: her offerings for her purifying.
Leviticus 11-12
13) Preface - David complaineth of God's delay to help him: he prayeth God to support him, that his enemies may not insult over him: he trusteth in the divine mercy.
14) Preface - David describeth the general corruption of mankind. He wisheth to see the salvation of God.
Psalms 13-14



​Daily Light - Morning
In every thing ye are enriched by him.

When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. - He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. - Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.
1 Co. 1.5; Ro. 5.6; Ro. 8.32
Col. 2.9-10
Jn. 15.4-5; Ro. 7.18; Eph. 4.7
Jn. 15.7; Col. 3.16

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Daily Light - Evening
They shall see his face.

I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.... And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. - I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh.

I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy his body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. - I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. - We shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. - The Lord himself shall descend from heaven....the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Rev. 22.4; Ex. 33.18,20; Jn. 1.18
Rev. 1.7; Nu. 24.17
​Job 19.25-26; Ps. 17.15; 1 Jn. 3.2; 1 Th. 4.16-17


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 67 - What does every sin deserve?
A - Every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
Chapter 6
PARAGRAPH 4
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From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil,  (11)  do proceed all actual transgressions.  (12)
(11)-Rom. 8.7; Col. 1.21  (12)-James 1.14-15; Matt. 15.19
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A conversation in heaven
Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah 42 vs 5-8

In this passage we have some of the most wonderful words that ever were uttered in the world. It is not a man speaking to a man. It is not even God speaking to a man. It is God speaking to His own Son. Oh, who would not listen? It is as if we were secretly admitted into the counsel of God, as if we stood behind the curtains of His dwelling-place, or were hidden in the clefts of the rock, and overheard the words of the eternal Father to the eternal Son. Now sometimes when you overhear a conversation on earth, between two poor perishing worms, you think it is worth treasuring up; you remember what they said; you repeat it over and over again. Oh! then, when you over hear a conversation in heaven, when God the Father speaks, and God the Son stands to receive his words, will you not listen? Will you not lay up all these sayings in your heart?
God tells the Son: (1) That He had called Him to this service - had passed over all His angels, and chosen Him for this difficult work, (2) He tells Him that He is not to shrink from the difficulties of it. There is an ocean of wrath to wade through, but fear not; I will hold Thee by the hand - I will keep thee. (3) He tells Him that He must be given as a covenant Saviour. However dear to His heart, still, says God, 'I will give thee.' (4) He encourages Him by the great benefit to be gained - that he would be a light to whole nations of poor, blind, captive sinners. (5) That in all this He would have His glory: 'My glory will I not give to another, nor my praise to graven images.'