Naracoorte Presbyterian Church

  • The offence of Unmerited grace

    “When Paul preached that we are justified by grace through faith and not through works of the law, he likewise caused offence and was accused of giving people licence to sin. When we preach that God’s saving mercy towards us is entirely unmerited but entirely available to the guiltiest sinner only on the grounds of…

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  • Christmas – God came to us

    “People wish one another a ‘merry’ Christmas and a ‘happy” New Year.  But how can one be really happy?” “Only God’s mercy in Jesus Christ can make a person really happy.  Human efforts are sure to disappoint. That’s why the message of Christmas is so important. “What is grace? It has always been a bit…

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  • God’s consistency

    “We have to deny or disown everything within us which is false to our true humanity… It is in order to be our true selves that we have to deny ourselves; it is because God is never other than his true Self that He cannot and will not deny Himself… He cannot repudiate any part…

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  • God’s anger

    “He [God] is never provoked without reason.  It is evil alone which provokes Him, and necessarily so since God must be (and behave) like God.  If evil did not provoke Him to anger He would forfeit our respect, for He would no longer be God.” John Stott, The Cross of Christ

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  • God’s holiness

    It is more characteristic of us to clap our hands with joy than to blush with shame and tears. We saunter up to God to claim his patronage and friendship; it does not occur to us that He might send us away. We need to hear again the apostle Peter’s sobering words: “Since you call…

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  • 10 Spurgeon Quotes for Wounded Christians

    We are all wounded by suffering, even if we only hear about it or see it in a distance. Charles Spurgeon for most of his life nursed deep wounds and struggled to cope with a myriad of emotional and physical maladies.  Spurgeon lived in the spotlight and the shadow. “I, the preacher of this hour, beg to…

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  • Limited Atonement

    Limited atonement—is it biblical? [This and other articles can be found at http://www.gotquestions.org/limited-atonement.html] Disclaimer:  By using this article from gotquestions.org does not imply that we necessarily agree with all expressions put forward on that site (The contents of the original article is not altered, but we added some paragraph breaks and headings to help make a…

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  • Ascension: Christ, our King, ascends his throne as Lord of lords

    ASCENSION DAY and its IMPLICATIONS for TODAY Article by Dr. Peter Hammond (http://www.frontline.org.za) Today is Ascension Day. Why are so many things going wrong? Recently, I was asked by a Christian leader: “Why is there so much corruption, crime and violence in our society? Why is there so much immorality, even in the church? Why are we…

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  • Seven Simple Steps to Boost Evangelism

    (This is part of an article written by Rick Segal on the Desiring God website.  See here for full article) Develop your “personal Great Commission number” as if it were something as routine to your daily life as church, work, fitness, and carting your kids around. How much time do you spend with unbelieving individuals,…

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  • Covenant Baptism

    Broadly speaking, there are two main views on baptism: Covenant Baptism (some may call it paedobaptism, because it implies that infants of together with their covenant parents should be baptised).  The mode of baptism is sprinkling of water. Believers Baptism (some call it credo-baptism, because only those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as…

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