Daily Readings for Wednesday 5th December 2025

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 Plan - First Year
Preface - Judah begetteth Er, Onan, and Shelah. Er marrieth Tamar, and dieth. Onan's trespass and death. Tamar waiteth for Shelah. She deceiveth Judah; to whom she beareth twins, Pharez and Zarah.
Genesis 38
Preface - Christ miraculously feedeth four thousand persons: he refuseth the Pharisees a sign: he warneth his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod, and explaineth his meaning: he giveth a blind man sight. The people's opinions, and Peter's confession, of him: he foresheweth his own death, and rebuketh Peter for dissuading him from it: he sheweth his followers that they must deny themselves, and not be ashamed of him and his gospel.
Mark 8


Daily Light - Morning
I am come that they might have life,
and that they might have it more abundantly.

In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. - She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husbands with her; and he did eat.

The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - If by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. - Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and​ he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. - For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Jn. 10.10; Ge. 2.17; Ge. 3.6
Ro. 6.23; Ro. 5.17; 1 Co. 15.21-22; 2 Tim. 1.10
1 Jn. 5.11-12; Jn. 3.17



Daily Light - Evening
The judgment seat.

We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth. - When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

We are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
2 Co. 5.10; Ro. 2.2; Mt. 25.31-32
Mt. 13.43; Ro. 8.33-34; Ro. 8.1
1 Co. 11.32
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 5 - Are there more Gods than one?
A - There is but one only, the living and true God.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 8
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A particular church, gathered and completely organized according to the mind of Christ, consists of officers and members; and the officers appointed by Christ to be chosen and set apart by the church (so called and gathered), for the peculiar administration of ordinances, and execution of power or duty, which he entrusts them with, or calls them to, to be continued to the end of the world, are bishops or elders, and deacons. (15)
(15) Acts 20:17,28; Phil. 1:1
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A constant appetite
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Joshua 1 v 8

When a soul is first brought to Christ, he delights in the Word of God. He has an appetite for it 'as a new-born babe.' Just as an infant has a constant, steadily-recurring appetite for its mother's milk, so has the soul for the Word. He has spiritual understanding of the Word. It seems all sweet and easy. It all testifies of Jesus. The soul grasps the meaning or earnestly inquires from ministers and others the meaning of difficult passages. He has growth: 'That ye may grow thereby.' It is felt to be the daily nourishment of the soul, the sword to ward off temptation.
How different when the Christian is in decay! No relish for the Word. It may be read as a duty, or as a burdensome task but it is not delighted in. Other books are preferred to the Bible. There is no growing in the knowledge of the Word, no self-application, no receiving it with meekness, no frequent recurrence of the mind during the day to the chapter real in the morning, no answering Satan by 'Thus it is written' and 'Thus saith the Lord.' Ah! my friends, how is the gold become dim!
'....yea gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.'
​(Hosea 7 v 9)