Daily Prayer - Saturday
Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. (John  3.16.)
- Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services.
​- Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and online contacts.



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 - First Year
Preface - Sennacherib invading Judah, Hezekiah fortifieth Jerusalem, and encourageth the people. Sennacherib's blasphemous message and letters. Hezekiah and Isaiah cry to heaven for aid; an angel destroyeth the Assyrian army, and their king returning home is slain by his own sons. Hezekiah praying in his sickness is miraculously recovered; but growing proud, he afterward humbleth himself. His riches and works. His error in relation to the Babylonish ambassadors. He dieth; Manasseh succeedeth him.
2 Chronicles 32
Preface - A mighty angel declareth the fall of Babylon. God's people commanded to depart out of her. Her judgment. The kings of the earth, and the merchants, and mariners, lament over her. The saints are excited to rejoice over he. A millstone cast into the sea denoteth her irrecoverable fall.
Revelation 18


Daily Light - Morning
We look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Here have we no continuing city. - Ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptation. - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened. - God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. - Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
2 Co. 4.18; He. 13.14; He. 10.34
Lu. 12.32
1 Pe. 1.6; Job 3.17
2 Co. 5.4; Rev. 21.4
Ro. 8.18; 2 Co. 4.17



Daily Light - Evening
He is our peace.

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them... For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. - Having made peace through the blood of his cross., by him to reconcile all things unto himself... And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. - Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Eph. 2.14; 2 Co. 5.19,21; Col. 1.20,21-22; Col. 2.14; Eph. 2.15
​Jn. 14.27


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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 47 - Which is the third commandment?
A. - The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance Unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 
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As repentance is to be continued through the whole course of our lives, upon the account of the body of death, and the motions thereof, so it is every man’s duty to repent of his particular known sins particularly.7
7 Luke 19:8; 1 Tim. 1:13,15


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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Holiness and your Bible
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17 v 17

Jesus is the author of sanctification; but there are many looking to the wrong airt for it. Now, all comes from the same hand that was nailed to the cross; look to Him for sanctification - His name is Jesus, for He saves from sin. Oh, do any feel faint and weary? lean on Him, the Beloved: all comes from Jesus. You may as well try to hold up the sun in its course, as to hold up your own goings. Go, then, to Jesus for all you need: learn the means of sanctification - the Word. No holiness without the Bible. I believe God could sanctify without the Word. He made the angels holy without it, and He made Adam holy without it; but He will not do it. 'Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth.' Just like a mother nourishing a child, Jesus takes a soul and nourishes it with the milk of the word. No life without a Bible. It is just the breathings of God's heart - of His affectionate bosom. Oh, yes, if you would walk much with Jesus, you would become like Him. Oh, you would get the heart and likeness of Jesus. There are some believers, and you may know them by their breath that they have been with Emmanuel, the lovely Rose of Sharon. Learn then, that there are no other means of sanctification, and without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Unless you love your Bibles, and feed upon them, you will never stand with the Lamb upon Mount Zion, with the golden harps.

Daily Prayer - Friday
Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
- Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering.                               Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.)
- Pray for the ministry among the children and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world.
​- Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all salvation by the grace of God through Christ.


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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 - First Year
Preface - The people's zeal in destroying idolatry in the cities of Judah, and in some parts of Israel. Hezekiah ordereth the courses of the priests and Levites, maketh provision for the stated sacrifices, and for the maintenance of the priests and Levites. The people's forwardness in bringing in first fruits and tithes. Hezekiah appointeth officers to dispose of those offerings. Hezekiah's sincerity of heart.
2 Chronicles 31
Preface - John's vision of the great whore, sitting upon the scarlet coloured beast, arrayed in purple and scarlet, with a golden cup in her hand. Her name. She is drunken with the blood of saints. The interpretation of the mystery of the beast, and of his seven heads and ten horns; and of the woman.
Revelation 17

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Daily Light - Morning
Be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord.
 
Ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. - As ye have...received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. - He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. - That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

By faith ye stand.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
1 Co. 15.58; Col. 2.6-7; Mt. 24.13; Lu. 8.15
2 Co. 1.24
Jn. 9.4
Ga. 6.8-10



Daily Light - Evening
He is able....
to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him.
 
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. - He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. - Is any thing too hard for the LORD?

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. Amen.
He. 7.25; Jn. 14.6; Ac. 4.12
Jn. 10.27-28; Phil. 1.6; Ge. 18.14
​Jude 24-25
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 46 - What is forbidden in the second commandment?
A - The second commandment forbids the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 3
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This saving repentance is an evangelical grace,4 whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith in Christ, humble himself for it with godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self–abhorrancy,5 praying for pardon and strength of grace, with a purpose and endeavour, by supplies of the Spirit, to walk before God unto all well–pleasing in all things.6

4 Zech. 12:10; Acts 11:18
5 Ezek. 36:31; 2 Cor. 7:11
6 Ps. 119:6,128



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
He is mine
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 2 v 16

In the arms of my faith He is mine. I was once of the world - cold and careless about my soul. God awakened me, and made me feel I was lost. I tried to make myself good - to mend my life; but I found it in vain. I sat down more lost than before. I was then told to believe on the Lord Jesus. So I tried to make myself believe. I read books on faith, and tried to bend my soul to believe, so that I might get to heaven; but still in vain. I found it written, 'Faith is the gift of God.' 'No man can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.' So I sat down more lost than ever. Whilst I was thus helpless, Jesus drew near - His garments dipped in blood. He had waited long at my door, though I knew it not. 'His head was filled with dew, and His locks with the drops of the night.' He had five deep wounds; and He said, 'I died in the stead of sinners; and any sinner may have me for a Saviour. You are a helpless sinner, will you have Me?' How can I resist Him? He is all I need! I held Him, and would not let Him go.' 'My beloved is mine.'
In the arms of my love He is mine. Once I did not know what people meant by loving Jesus. I always wished to ask how they could love one whom they had never seen, but was answered, 'whom not having seen, we love.' But now that I have hidden in Him - now that I am cleaving to Him - now I feel that I cannot but love Him; and I long to see Him that I may love Him more. Many a time I fall into sin, and that takes away my feeling of safety in Christ. Darkness comes, all is clouded, Christ is away. Still even then I am sick of love. Christ is not light and peace to me; but I follow hard after Him amid the darkness - He is precious to me; and even, though I be in darkness, He is my beloved still.' 'This is my beloved, and this is my friend.'

Daily Prayer - Thursday
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.

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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 - First Year
Preface - Hezekiah proclaimeth a solemn passover to be kept in the second month, and calleth all Judah and Israel to the celebration of it. The assembly, having destroyed the altars of idolatry in Jerusalem, keep the feast fourteen days. The priests bless the people.
2 Chronicles 30
Preface - The seven angels are commanded to pour out their vials on the earth. Great plagues follow thereupon. Christ cometh suddenly as a thief: blessed are thy that watch.
Revelation 16



Daily Light - Morning
The kindness and love of God our Saviour
toward man appeared.

I have loved thee with an everlasting love.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. - The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. - Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.

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, and is, the devil.
Titus 3.4; Jer. 31.3
1 Jn. 4.9-10
Ga. 4.4-5; Jn. 1.14; 1 Tim. 3.16
He. 2.14


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Daily Light - Evening
Thanks be unto God
for his unspeakable gift.

Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing... Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

He...spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all. - Having yet...one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him.

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! - Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
2 Co. 9.15; Ps. 100.1-2,4; Isa. 9.6-7
Ro. 8.32; Mk. 12.6
Ps. 107.21; Ps. 103.1
​Lu. 1.46-47
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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.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 2

​Whereas there is none that does good and does not sin, 2 and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall in to great sins and provocations; God has, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be renewed through repentance unto salvation. 3
2 Eccles. 7:20
3 Luke 22:31–32


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
'Tis the Lord! O Wondrous story'
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Matthew 1 v 23
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In the manger at Bethlehem, there lay a perfect infant, but there also was Jehovah. That mysterious being who rode on an ass's colt, and wept over Jerusalem, was as much a man as you are, and as much God as the Father is. The tears He shed were human tears, yet the love of Jehovah swelled below His mantle. That pale being that hung quivering on the cross was indeed man - it was human blood that flowed from His wounds - but He was as truly God. In being without sin. He was the only one in Human from of whom it can be said, he was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners; the only one on whom God could look down from heaven, and say, 'This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.' Every member of our body and faculty of our mind we have used as the servants of sin. Every member of His body and faculty of His mind were used only as servants to holiness. His mouth was the only human mouth from which none but gracious words ever proceeded. His eye was the only human eye that never shot forth flames of pride, or envy, or lust. His hand was the only human hand that never was stretched forth but in doing good. His heart was the only human heart that was not deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. When Satan came to Him, he found nothing in Him. Now, in these two things it behoved Him to be unlike His brethren, or He could not have been a Saviour at all. In all other things it behoved Him to be made like us. There was no part of our condition that He did not humble Himself unto.

Daily Prayer - Wednesday
Wednesday
- Give thank to God for the Bible its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.)
- Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue.
- Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible through the ministry this coming year. That as we work through a book of the Bible the Lord would        continue to help us to grasp God's truth.
- Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us.


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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 - First Year
Preface - Hezekiah's good reign. He restoreth religion, and exhorteth the Levites to cleanse the house of God. The Levites sanctify themselves, and cleanse the house. Hezekiah offereth solemn sacrifices, wherein the Levites shew a more forward zeal than the priests.
2 Chronicles 29
Preface - The seven angels with the seven last plagues. The song of them which overcome the beast. The seven angels receive the seven golden vials full of the wrath of God.
Revelation 15



Daily Light - Morning
If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:
but if ye through the Spirit
do mortify the deeds of the body,
​ye shall live.
 
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication...and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law, And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity.
Ro. 8.13; Ga. 5.19,21-25
Titus 2.11-14



Daily Light - Evening
Then said the princes of the Philistines,
What do these Hebrews here?

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified, But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief...or as a busybody in other men's matters.

Let not...your good be evil spoken of. - Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath ligth with darkness?...ye are the temple of the living God....Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.

Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
1 Sa. 29.3; 1 Pe. 4.14-15
Ro. 14.16; 1 Pe. 2.12
2 Co. 6.14,16,17
​1 Pe. 2.9
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 44 - Which is the second commandment?
A - The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance Unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 1
​Such of the elect that are converted at riper years, having sometime lived in the state of nature, and therein served divers pleasures, God in their effectual calling gives them repentance to life.1
1 Titus 3:2–5



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The sovereign mercy of Jesus
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Hebrews 2 vs 16-18

We read of two great rebellions in the history of the universe the rebellion of the angels, and the rebellion of man. For infinitely wise and gracious purposes God planned and permitted both of these, that out of evil He might bring forth good. The first took place in heaven itself. Pride was the sin by which the angels fell, and, therefore, it is called 'the condemnation of the devil.' They kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation.' The next fall took place upon earth. Satan tempted, and man fell - believed the devil rather than God, and so came under the curse - 'Thou shalt surely die.' Both of these families came under the same frown - under the same condemnation - both were condemned to the same 'everlasting fire.' But the glorious Son of God resolved, from all eternity, to die for sinners. Now, for which of the two shall he die? Perhaps the angels in heaven would long that He should die for their once brother angels. The angelic nature was higher than that of man. Men had fallen deeper into sin than the rebel angels. Will He not die for angels? Now, here is the answer - 'Verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.' Here is sovereign mercy passing by one of the family and coming to another. Let us wonder and adore the sovereign mercy of Jesus.

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 - First Year
27) Preface - Jotham reigning well prospereth. His buildings. He subdueth the Ammonites. His acts, reign, and death: Ahaz succeedeth him.
28) Preface - Ahaz reigning very wickedly is smitten by the kings of Syria and Israel. The Israelites, having carried many thousands of Judah captive to Samaria; at the remonstrance of the prophet Oded send them home. Ahaz calleth the king of Assyria to his aid, but is not at all benefited by his assistance. In his distress he becometh still more idolatrous. His acts and death: Hezekiah succeedeth him.
2 Chronicles 27-28
Preface - The Lamb with his company standing on mount Sion; an angel preacheth the gospel; another proclaimeth the fall of Babylon; and a third the punishment of them that worship the beast. The blessedness of those that die in the Lord. The harvest of the world. The vintage and winepress of God's wrath.
Revelation 14


​Daily Light - Morning
Let him take hold of my strength.
that he may make peace with me.

I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil. - There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

In Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made night by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace.

It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself. - Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past...that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
Isa. 27.5; Jer. 29.11; Isa. 48.22
Eph. 2.13-14
Col. 1.19-20; Ro. 3.24-25,26; 1 Jn. 1.9
Isa. 26.4



Daily Light - Evening
God hath given to us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son.

As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will... As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he give to the Son to have life in himself.

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. - I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep... I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. - No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. - For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
1 Jn. 5.11; Jn. 5.21,26
​Jn. 11.25-26; Jn. 10.11,17-18; Jn. 14.6; 1 Jn. 5.12; Col. 3.3-4


A Puritans Catechism
Q 43 - What is required in the first commandment?
A - The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Saving Faith
​Chapter 14
PARAGRAPH 3
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This faith, although it be in different stages, and may be weak or strong,11 yet it is in the least degree of it different in the kind or nature of it, as is all other saving grace, from the faith and common grace of temporary believers;12 and therefore, though it may be many times assailed and weakened, yet it gets the victory,13 growing up in many to the attainment of a full assurance through Christ,14 who is both the author and finisher of our faith.15
11 Heb. 5:13–14; Matt. 6:30; Rom. 4:19–20
12 2 Pet. 1:1
13 Eph. 6:16; 1 John 5:4–5
14 Heb. 6:11–12; Col. 2:2
15 Heb. 12:2



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Communion with God
Draw night to God, and he will draw night to you.
James 4 v 8

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner. A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man.

Daily Prayer - Sunday
Sunday
Give thanks to God for His character, perfect, unchangeable, the same yesterday today and forever.
Give thanks to God that we can meet in the church and have fellowship with one another.
Pray the Lord would grant the preaching of his word power and clarity, and there are ready ears to hear and believe it. (2 Thes. 3.1.).
Pray we would receive faithful ministry and spiritual food from God’s Word (1 Pet 2.2.)
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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 - First Year
Preface - Amaziah beginneth his reign well, He gathereth a great army, and hireth a hundred thousand Israelites for a hundred talents of silver, but at the word of a prophet loseth the money, and dismisseth them, who depart in great anger. He smiteth the Edomites in the valley of salt. The offended Israelites on their return spoil the cities of Judah. Amaziah serveth the gods of Edom, and rejecteth the admonitions of a prophet. His challenge to Joash, which endeth in his overthrow, and in the taking and spoiling of Jerusalem. He is slain by a conspiracy at Lachish.
2 Chronicles 25
Preface - A woman clothed with the sun travaileth. A great red dragon standeth ready to devour her child. She is delivered, and fleeth into the wilderness. Michael and his angels fight with the dragon, who is cast out of heaven with his angels. The victory proclaimed in heaven. The dragon cast down to the earth persecuteth the woman.
Revelation 12



Daily Light - Morning
The days of thy mourning
shall be ended.

In the world ye shall have tribulation. - The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. - We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up  f life.

These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Isa. 60.20; Jn. 16.33; Ro. 8.22-23; 2 Co. 5.4
Rev. 7.14-17


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Daily Light - Evening
Master, carest hou not that we perish?

The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. - God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is... And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?...for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. - Trust...in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Mk. 4.38; Ps. 145.9
Ge. 9.3; Ge. 8.22
Na.1.7; Ge. 21.17,19
Mt. 6.31,32; 1 Tim. 6.17
​1 Pe. 5.7

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​A Puritans Catechism
Q 41 - What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A - The sum of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance Unto Life and Salvation
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
A dying boy's testimony
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement.
John 16 v 8

There is, perhaps, no subject upon which there is greater ignorance than that of the Spirit of God. Most people, in our day, if they answered truly, would say as those twelve men at Ephesus: 'We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost' (Acts 19 v 2). And yet, if ever you are to be saved, you must know him; for it is all His work to bring a poor prisoner to Christ. A little boy, when dying, said: 'Three persons in the Godhead. God that Father Made and preserved me; God the Son came into the World and died for me; God the Holy Ghost came into my heart, and made me love God and hate sin.' My dear friends, if you would die happy, you must be able to bear the same dying testimony.

Daily Prayer - Friday
Friday
- Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
- Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering.                               Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.)
- Pray for the ministry among the children and that they would know Christ from a young age. A rich blessing in this troubled world.
​- Pray for the evangelistic work, that people would know the greatest blessing of all salvation by the grace of God through Christ.


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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 - First Year
22) Preface - Ahaziah succeedeth Jehoram: his wicked reign. His confederacy with Jehoram the son of Ahab, with whom he is slain by Jehu. Athaliah having destroyed all the seed royal of Judah, save Joash, who was hid by his aunt Jehoshabeath, usurpeth the kingdom.
23) Preface - 
2 Chronicles 22-23
Preface - Jehoiada, having taken measures for his security, maketh Joash king. Athaliah is slain. Jehoiada restoreth the worship of God, and settleth the king on his throne to the great joy of the people.
Revelation 10

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Daily Light - Morning
Unto the upright there ariseth
light in the darkness.
 
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. - Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. - The commandment is a lamp: and the law is light.

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Ps. 112.4; Isa. 50.10; Ps. 37.24; Pro. 6.23
Mi. 7.8-9
Mt. 6.22-23



Daily Light - Evening
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd:
he shall gather the lambs with his arm,
and carry them in his bosom, and shall
gently lead those that are with young.
 
I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat....I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. - We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.

They brought young children to him...and he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. - Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant. - The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. - Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. - I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
Isa. 40.11; Mt. 15.32; He. 4.15
Mk. 10.13,16; Mt. 21.16
Ps. 119.176; Lu. 19.10; 1 Pe. 2.25
​Lu. 12.32; Ezek. 34.15
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A Puritans Catechism
Q 39 - What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?
A - At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever.
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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 3
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This saving repentance is an evangelical grace,4 whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith in Christ, humble himself for it with godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self–abhorrancy,5 praying for pardon and strength of grace, with a purpose and endeavour, by supplies of the Spirit, to walk before God unto all well–pleasing in all things.6

4 Zech. 12:10; Acts 11:18
5 Ezek. 36:31; 2 Cor. 7:11
6 Ps. 119:6,128



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A sight of Christ
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
​1 Corinthians 11 v 24

An unconverted man cannot remember Christ; for he hath never seen Him, neither known Him. A man who never tasted honey cannot remember the taste of it; so a man who never had a saving taste of the sweetness of the Lord Jesus cannot possibly remember Him. Indeed, there is a kind of remembrance of Christ that any man may have. You may remember the events of His life: that He was born in a stable, that He walked on the Lake of Galilee, that He wept over Jerusalem, that He prayed in Gethsemane, that He died on the cross on Calvary; but even the devils can remember Christ in this way. They remember all His history much more perfectly than we do. Satan has more knowledge of divine things than many doctors of divinity. And lost souls in eternal misery remember Jesus. But, ah! this is not the saving remembrance of Jesus which we have at the Lord's table.
When a labouring, heavy laden sinner is brought to the feet of Jesus, he finds a joy and peace in believing he never felt before. He gets a discovery of the love of Christ that he never had before; the love of Jesus in coming for the ungodly, and dying for them; the freeness of Christ to every creature, to sinners even the chief, to publicans and sinners, coming to Him; the wisdom and excellency of this way of salvation, the amazing glory and perfection of the righteousness of God, when the Spirit thus takes the veil from the eyes, he gets a sight of Christ which he never will, and never can, forget. This is the spiritual relish and discerning of the Lord's body.

Daily Prayer - Thursday
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.

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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 - First Year
Preface - Jehoshaphat's death: Jehoram succeedeth him, and slayeth his brethren. His wicked reign, Edom and Libnah, revolt. Elijah's written prophecy against him. The Philistines and Arabians carry off his substance, his wives, and all his sons, except Jehoahaz. His incurable disease, loathsome death, and burial
2 Chronicles 21
Preface - At the sounding of the fifth angel a star falleth from heaven, to whom is given the key of the bottomless pit: he opens the pit, and there come forth locusts like scorpions, who have power to hurt men for a time. The first woe past. At the sounding of the sixth angel four angels which were bound are loosed, and bring great plagues on the earth for a limited time.
Revelation 9



Daily Light - Morning
Let us...come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy,
and find grace to help in time of need.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. - Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain. - Having therefore...boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. - We may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
He. 4.16; Phil. 4.6-7; Ro. 8.15
Isa. 45.19; He. 10.19,22; He. 13.6


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Daily Light - Evening
Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. - If the Son...shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. - Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Jn. 8.32; 2 Co. 3.17; Ro. 8.2; Jn. 8.36
Ga. 4.31; Ga. 2.16
​Jas. 1.25; Ga. 5.1
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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.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 2

​Whereas there is none that does good and does not sin, 2 and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall in to great sins and provocations; God has, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be renewed through repentance unto salvation. 3
2 Eccles. 7:20
3 Luke 22:31–32


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Selfish children
... ye have not, because ye ask not.
James 4 v 2
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When God, in Ezekiel 36 v. 26, promises to give a new heart and a new spirit to Israel - 'I will take away the stony heart our of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.' - he adds, at verse 37; 'I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them;' And when God promises to give to Christ the heathen for His heritage, He only promises it in answer to prayer: 'Ask of me, and I will give thee.' And just so here; when He wishes to give life to these dead carcasses that are lying in the open valley, His word is: 'Prophesy, O son of man, unto the Spirit.'
O believing brethren, what an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves him that moves the universe. O men of faith and prayer! Israels who wrestle with God, and prevail! Righteous, justified men whose prayers avail much! You may be a little flock, but be you entreated to give the Lord no rest. O pray for the Spirit to 'breathe upon these slain, that they may live!'
And you, selfish Christians, if such a contradiction can exist - you who approach the throne of God only for yourselves, you whose petitions begin and end only for yourselves, who ask no gifts but only for your own peace and joy - go you and learn what this meaneth; 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' 'Let his mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.'