Daily Readings for Thursday 15th May 2025

Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part       of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.



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 - Balaam, leaving divinations, prophesieth the happiness of Israel. Balak in anger dismisseth him. He prophesieth of the star of Jacob, and the destruction of some nations.
Numbers 24
Psalms 52) Preface - David reproving the spiteful malice of Doeg, prophesieth his destruction. The righteous shall rejoice at it. David in confidence of God's mercy giveth him thanks.
Psalms 66) Preface - David exhorteth to praise God, to observe his great works, to bless him for his gracious benefits: he voweth for himself religious service to God: he declareth God's special goodness to himself.
Psalms 67) Preface - A prayer for the enlargement of God's kingdom, to the joy of the people, and to the increase of God's blessings.
Psalms 66-67



Daily Light - Morning
God shall wipe away all tears....
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow....
for the former things are passed away.

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. - Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. - The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. - The voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. - Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. - The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.... Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

The things which are not seen are eternal.
Rev. 21.4; Isa. 25.8; Isa. 60.20; Isa. 33.24; Isa. 65.19; Isa. 35.10
Hos. 13.14; 1 Co. 15.26,54
2 Co. 4.18



Daily Light - Evening
Together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus.

Fear not.... I am he that liveth. - Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.

We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. - He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead. - Ye are complete in him, which is the head.

Forasmuch....as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Eph 2.6; Rev. 1.17,18; Jn. 17.24
Eph. 5.30; Col. 1.18; Col. 2.10
He. 2.14-15
​1 Co. 15.53-54

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A Puritans Catechism
Q 22 - What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
A - Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his state of humiliation and exaltation.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Saving Faith
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 5
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Such is the provision which God has made through Christ in the covenant of grace for the preservation of believers unto salvation, that although there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation,  (8)  yet there is no sin so great that it shall bring damnation to them that repent,  (9)  which makes the constant preaching of repentance necessary.
(8)-Rom. 6.23  (9)-Isa. 1.16-18, 55.7




Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Wide open
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
John 3 v 14

The whole bible shows that Christ is quite willing and anxious that all sinners should come to Him. The city of refuge in the Old Testament was a type of Christ; and you remember that its gates were open by night and by day. The arms of Christ were nailed wide open, when He hung upon the cross; and this was a figure of His wide willingness to save all, as He said: 'I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.' But though His arms were firmly nailed, they are more firmly nailed wide open now, by His love and compassion for perishing sinners, than ever they were nailed to the tree.