Daily Readings for Monday 17th 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 - Aaron and his sons are set apart for the priest's office. Holy garments are appointed. The ephod. The breastplate with twelve precious stones. The Urim and Thummim. The robe of the ephod, with pomegranates and bells. The plate of the mitre. The embroidered coat. The garments for Aaron's sons.
Exodus 28
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.
John 7

Jesus, exhorted by his unbelieving kinsmen to shew himself at Jerusalem at the feast of tabernacles, refuseth, but afterward goeth up in secret. The Jews seek him, and differ in their sentiments of him. He teacheth in the temple; some are ready to lay hands on him, others believe; the rulers send officers to seize him. Christ foretelleth his departure to the Father, and promiseth the Holy Spirit to believers. Various opinions concerning him. The officers struck with his discourse return without him, and are rebuked by the Pharisees, who chide with Nicodemus for taking his part.



​Daily Light - Morning
He shall put his hand upon the head of
the burn offering; and it shall be accepted
for him to make atonement for him.

Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.

He hath made us accepted in the beloved. - As lively stones....built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
Lev. 1.4; 1 Pe. 1.18-19; 1 Pe. 2.24
Eph. 1.6; 1 Pe. 2.5; Ro. 12.1
​Jude 24-25

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Daily Light - Evening
In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

When the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered.... It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by everyword that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.... The devil....sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.... Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation.
He. 4.15; Ge. 3.6
Mt. 4.3-4,8,10
1 Jn. 2.16
He. 2.18
​Jas. 1.12



A Puritans Catechism
Q 45 - What is required in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God and of the Holy Trinity
Chapter 2
PARAGRAPH 2
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God, having all life,  (17)  glory,  (18)  goodness,  (19)  blessedness, in and of Himself, is alone in and unto Himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creature which He hath made, nor deriving any glory from them,  (20)  but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them; He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things,  (21)  and He hath most soverign dominion over all creatures, to do by them, for them, or upon them, whatsoever Himself pleases;  (22)  in His sight all things are open and manifest,  (23)  His knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, so as nothing is to Him contingent or uncertain;  (24)  He is most holy in all His counsels, in all His works,  (25)  and in all His commands; to Him is due from angels and men, whatsoever worship,  (26)  service, or obedience, as creatures they owe unto the Creator, and whatever He is further pleased to require of them.
(17)-John 5.26  (18)-Ps. 148.13  (19)  Ps. 119.68  (20)-Job 22.2-3  (21)-Rom. 11.34-36  (22)-Dan. 4.25, 34-35  (23)-Heb. 4.13  (24)-Ezek. 11.5; Acts 15.18  (25)-Ps. 145.17  (26)-Rev. 5.12-14



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Reaching forth
For I will pour water on him that is thirsty ....
Isaiah 44 v 3

Some persons are contented when they come to Christ. They sink back, as it were, into an easy chair, they ask no more, they wish no more. This must not be. If you are thirsty believers, you will seek salvation as much after conversion as before it. 'Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.