Daily Readings for Tuesday 21st 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 - Abraham is tempted to offer Isaac. He giveth proof of his faith and obedience. The angel stayeth him from slaying his son, in whose stead he offereth a ram. Abraham is blessed again. The generations of Nahor, from whom came Rebekah.
Genesis 22
Preface - Christ rideth into Jerusalem upon an ass amidst the acclamations of the multitude. He driveth the buyers and sellers out of the temple, and healeth the diseased there. His reply to the priests and scribes who took offence at the hosannas of the people. He curseth the barren fig tree, which presently withereth: he silenceth the priests and elders who questioned his authority. The parable of the two sons whom their father sent to work in his vineyard. The parable for the vineyard let out to wicked husbandmen.
Matthew 21


​Daily Light - Morning
Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it.

He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.... Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: never-theless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees.
Jn. 15.2: Mal. 3.2-3
Ro. 5.35; He. 12.7-8,11-12


Daily Light - Evening
Now we call the proud happy.

Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I swell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the countite ones.

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. - Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look - Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you. - Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mal. 3.15; Isa. 57.15
Pro. 16.19; Mt. 5.3
Pro. 6.16,17; Pro. 16.5
Ps. 139.23-24
​Phil. 1.2-3; Mt. 5.5


A Puritans Catechism
Q 72 - How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
A - The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convicting and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort through faith to salvation.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Chapter 23
PARAGRAPH 5
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A vow, which is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone, is to be made and performed with all religious care and faithfulness;  (8) but popish monastical vows of perpetual single life, (9) professed poverty, (10) poverty and regular obedience, are so far from being degrees of higher perfection, that they are superstitious and sinful snares, in which no Christian may entangle himself. (11)
(8) Ps. 76.11, Gen. 28:20-22 (9) 1 Cor. 7:2.9 (10) Eph. 4:28 (11) Matt. 19:1
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A threefold grace
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
2 Corinthians 8 v 9

When Jesus washed the disciples' feet, when he came to Peter, Peter said, 'Lord, dost thou wash my feet?' Three things amazed him:
1) The glorious being that knelt down before him: 'Thou.'
2) The lowly action he was going to perform: 'Dost thou wash?'
3) The vile wretch whose feet were to be washed: 'My feet.' He was amazed at the grace of the Lord Jesus. 
So in this amazing work you may see a threefold grace:
1) The glorious being that undertook for sinners: 'He who was rich'.
2) The depth to which he stooped: He became poor.'
3) The wretches whose souls were to be washed: 'For your sakes.'
Ah! well may you be amazed this day, and cry out: 'Dost thou wash my soul?'