Naracoorte Presbyterian Church

  • The spiritual fight

    The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a scanty round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But the great…

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  • Sanctification

    Boast not of Christ’s work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit’s work in you. (J.C. Ryle in “Holiness”)

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  • “I do not understand how a man can be a true believer unto whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow, and trouble.” (John Owen)

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  • Meaningful prayer

    “Whenever you feel that a little praying can’t do any harm, you will find that it can’t do much good either.  Prayer has meaning only if it is necessary and indispensable.  Prayer is prater only when we say that without it a man could not live.” (Henri Nouwen, With Open Hands)

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  • The Idle “Christian”

    A man who professes to be a true Christian, while he sits still, content with a very low degree of sanctification (if indeed he has any at all), and coolly tells you he “can do nothing,” is a very pitiable sight, and a very ignorant man. (J.C. Ryle in “Holiness“

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  • Practical Christianity

    Divine knowledge  is not the as the light of the moon to sleep by, but as the light of the sun to work by. (H.H. Munro)

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  • Mordecai meets the Messiah

    Never underestimate the work of the Holy Spirit through the reading of the Bible.

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  • Evolution and Christianity

    Atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out a few years ago that Christians who try to mix evolutionary ideas with Scripture, thereby essentially saying that Genesis is not trustworthy, were “deluded.” When asked if there was “a defining moment” when he decided he didn’t believe in God, Dawkins replied as follows: Oh well, by far the most…

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  • Dependent on God

    We are to use our intelligence, which is usually an instrument of independence, to make us increasingly dependent on God. ~ John Piper

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  • Gospel-humilty

    Gospel-humility is not needing to think about myself. Not needing to connect things with myself. It is an end to thoughts such as, ‘I’m in this room with these people, does that make me look good? Do I want to be here?’ True gospel-humility means I stop connecting every experience, every conversation, with myself. In…

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