Daily Readings for Tuesday 27 January 2026

Prayer - Tuesday
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 11:00 am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30 am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards, we go back to church for prayer. 



Daily Reading Plan - Second Year
Preface - The great mourning of Mordecai and the Jews. Esther sendeth to Mordecai to enquire the reason, is informed thereof, and advised by him to intercede with the king for the nation. She at first excuseth herself, but being admonished of the consequences by Mordecai, appointeth a feast, and undertaketh the suit.
Esther 4
Preface - Paul is conducted in a ship toward Rome: he foretelleth the danger of the voyage, but is not credited: the ship setting sail against his advice is tossed with a tempest: Paul comforteth his fellow travellers with assurances of having their lives saved, but foretelleth a shipwreck: all which is verified by the event.
Acts 27



​Daily Light - Morning
Ye know that he was manifested to take away
our sins: and in him is no sin.

God...hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son....who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. - He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold....but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. - The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
1 Jn. 3.5; He. 1.1,2,3; 2 Co. 5.21
1 Pe. 1.17-18,19-20; 2 Co. 5.14-15



Daily Light - Evening
I have set before you life and death,
blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.

The servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Deu. 30.19; Ezek. 18.32
Jn. 15.22
Lu. 12.47
Ro. 6.23; Jn. 3.36; Ro. 6.16
​Jn. 12.26



A Puritans Catechism
Q 78 - How is baptism rightly administered?
A - Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ's institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Holy Scriptures
​Chapter 1
PARAGRAPH 5
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We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church of God to a high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scriptures; and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, and the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is to give all glory to God), the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, and many other incomparable excellencies, and entire perfections thereof, are arguments whereby it does abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God; yet notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth, and divine authority thereof, is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts.  (8)
8 - John 16:13-14; 1 Cor. 2.10-12; 1 John 2:20,27



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Following Jesus
Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
John 21 v 22

If you would follow Christ fully, you must know Him fully.
A sight of His beauty draws us to follow Him. 'He is the chief among ten thousand, and altogether lovely.' 'And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.; There is an indescribable loveliness in Christ that draws the soul to follow Him. All divine perfections dwell in Him; and yet He offers to save us.
His suitableness draws us to follow Him. He just answers the need of our soul. We are all guilty, he is all righteousness. We, all weakness; He, all strength. Nothing can more completely answer our soul than Christ doth. The chickens run under the feathers of their mother when they see them stretched out, the dove flutters into the clefts, Noah into the ark; and our soul thus follows Jesus.
His freeness draws us to follow Him. 'He will in no wise cast out.' He forgives seventy times seven. It is the keeping the eye on Christ that makes you follow Him. It is seeing the King in His beauty that makes the soul cleave to him, and run after Him. 'My soul followeth hard after thee.' 'Run the race set before you, looking unto Jesus.'