Daily Readings for Wednesday 25th December 2024

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
- Give thank to God for the Bible its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.)
- Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue.
- Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would        continue to help us to grasp God's truth.
- Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us.


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
Preface - Jerusalem a cup of trembling, and burdensome stone to the confusion of her adversaries. The victorious restoring of Judah. The repentance of Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12
Preface - Under the parable of a vine Christ setteth forth God's government of his church, and exhorteth his disciples to abide in his faith and doctrine: he commandeth them to love one another, according to the great love he had shewed for them: forewarneth them of the hatred and persecution of the world: and telleth them of the testimony which the Holy Ghost, and they also, shall bear to him.
John 15


Daily Light - Morning
The kindness and love of God our Saviour
toward man appeared.

I have loved thee with an everlasting love.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. - The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. - Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.

As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that though death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.
Titus 3.4; Jer. 31.3
1 Jn. 4.9-10
Ga. 4.4-5; Jn. 1.14; 1 Tim. 3.16
He. 2.14


Daily Light - Evening
Thanks be unto God
for his unspeakable gift.

Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing... Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

He...spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all. - Having yet...one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him.

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! - Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
2 Co. 9.15; Ps. 100.1-2,4; Isa. 9.6-7
Ro. 8.32; Mk. 12.6
Ps. 107.21; Ps. 103.1
Lu. 1.46-67


A Puritans Catechism
Q 45 - What is required in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 4
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To them also he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people, not obliging any now by virtue of that institution; their general equity only being of moral use.9
9 1 Cor. 9:8–10


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
'Tis the Lord! O Wondrous story'
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Matthew 1 v 23

In the manger at Bethlehem, there lay a perfect infant, but there also was Jehovah. That mysterious being who rode on an ass's colt, and wept over Jerusalem, was as much a man as you are, and as much God as the Father is. The tears He shed were human tears, yet the love of Jehovah swelled below His mantle. That pale being that hung quivering on the cross was indeed man - it was human blood that flowed from His wounds - but He was as truly God. In being without sin. He was the only one in human from of whom it can be said, he was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners; the only one on whom God could look down from heaven, and say, 'This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.' Every member of our body and faculty of our mind we have used as the servants of sin. Every member of His body and faculty of His mind were used only as servants to holiness. His mouth was the only human mouth from which none but gracious words ever proceeded. His eye was the only human eye that never shot forth flames of pride, or envy, or lust. His hand was the only human hand that never was stretched forth but in doing good. His heart was the only human heart that was not deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. When Satan came to Him, he found nothing in Him. Now, in these two things it behoved Him to be unlike His brethren, or He could not have been a Saviour at all. In all other things it behoved Him to be made like us. There was no part of our condition that He did not humble Himself unto.