Daily Readings for Monday 10th March 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)

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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 - Laws concerning the release of menservants, and concerning the servant whose ear is bored; concerning womenservants; murder and manslaughter; smiters of parents; stealers of men; curses of parents; smiting without loss of life; smiting of servants to death; a hurt by chance to a woman with child; the loss of a servant's eye or both; an ox that goreth a man or woman; harm occasioned by leaving a pit uncovered; or by one man's ox hurting the ox of another man.
Exodus 21
Preface - Christ's resurrection is declared by two angels to the women that came to the sepulchre, who report it to others, but are not believed. Peter visiteth the sepulchre. Christ appeareth to two disciples going to Emmaus; and to the apostles, eating before them, and explaining the scriptures concerning himself: he promiseth them the Holy Ghost, and ascendeth into heaven.
Luke 24



​Daily Light - Morning
Jehovah-Jireh. [marg. The Lord will provide]

God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened. That it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. - There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God. - Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; to deliver their soul from death.

My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. - He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. - The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and ith my song will I praise him.
Ge. 22.14; Ge. 22.8
Isa. 59.1; Ro. 11.26
Ps. 146.5; Ps. 33.18-19
Phil. 4.19; He. 13.5-6; Ps. 28.7

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Daily Light - Evening
He feedeth among the lilies.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. - If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits, - I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse; Ihave gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey. - The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. - Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. - Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Song 2.16; Mt. 18.20; Jn. 14.23
Jn. 15.10
Song 4.16; Song 5.1; Ga. 5.22-23
​Jn. 15.8; Jn. 15.2; Phil. 1.11



A Puritans Catechism
Q 38 - What shall be done to the wicked at their death?
A - The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection and the judgment of the great day.


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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
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
2 Timothy 4 v 8

How sweet it will be when Christ puts on the crown on a sinner's brow! The just God and Saviour! Angels will shout for joy when they see the righteous Jesus crowning the sinners for whom He died. He will finish our redemption. He was crowned with thorns; He has been an advocate crowned with glory and majesty; but another step - He is to put on the crown of righteousness. All heaven and earth and hell own Him faithful and true, and righteous in all His ways. Oh! how sweet to be crowned by Jesus.