Daily Readings for Monday 10th February 2025

Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend    alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


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 - Jacob is hardly persuaded to send Benjamin. Joseph's brethren are brought into Joseph's house. They discover their fears to the steward, who pacifieth them. Joseph maketh them a feast.
Genesis 43
Preface - Christ foretelleth the destruction of the temple; sheweth what signs and calamities should go before, and what should happen at the time of his coming: no man knoweth the day or hour; we must therefore watch and pray, that we may not be found unprepared.
Mark 13

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Daily Light - Morning
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine
eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light.

The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. - Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. - We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image....even as by the Spirit of the Lord, - God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him....that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.
Lu. 11.34; 1 Co. 2.14; Ps. 119.18
Jn. 8.12; 2 Co. 3.18; 2 Co. 4.6
Eph. 1.17,18



Daily Light - Evening
He smote the rock, that the waters gushed out,
and the streams overflowed.

All our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the seas; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. - One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. - He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. - My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. - Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Ps. 78.20; 1 Co. 10.1-4; Jn. 19.34; Isa. 53.5
Jn. 5.40; Jer. 2.13
​Jn. 7.37; Rev. 22.17


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A Puritans Catechism
Q 10 - How did God create man?
A - God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with domination over the creatures


​The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 13
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No church members, upon any offence taken by them, having performed their duty required of them towards the person they are offended at, ought to disturb any church-order, or absent themselves from the assemblies of the church, or administration of any ordinances, upon the account of such offence at any of their fellow members, ut to wait upon Christ, in the further proceeding of the church. (28) 

(28) Matt. 18.15-17; Eph. 4:2-3
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
He's preparing a place
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
​John 14 v 2

When a family are going to emigrate to a foreign shore, often the elder brother goes before to prepare a place for his younger brethren. This is what Christ has done. He does not intend that we should live here always - He has gone a far journey in order to prepare a place for us: 'I go to prepare a place for you; and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.' Oh, Christians! believe in Christ preparing a place for you. It will greatly take away the fear of dying. It is an awful thing to die, even for a forgiven and sanctified soul to enter on a world unknown, unseen, untried. One thing takes away fear: Christ is preparing a place quite suitable for my soul. He knows all the wants and weaknesses of my frame. I know He will make it a pleasant home to me.