Naracoorte Presbyterian Church

  • No external force

    Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements. ~ John Calvin

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  • Don’t be ashamed

    Whatever others around you think, do not ever be ashamed of being a Christian. ~ J.C. Ryle

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  • Thank God for a painful past

    “I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.” ~ Ravi Zacharias, Walking from…

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  • Judging others

    “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  • Light of/for the world

    “The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! ‘You are the light of the world.’” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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  • Christ: King, Servant, Man and God

    Matthew presents Christ from the perspective of His kingdom. Mark presents Him from the perspective of His servanthood. Luke shows Him from the perspective of His humanity. John shows Christ from the perspective of His deity. Each writer, inspired by the Holy Spirit, showed a different aspect of the Person Christ. Each is part of the…

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  • Out of Spiritual Death

    And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves. (Ezekiel 37:13) Indeed it must be so: those who receive life from the dead are sure to recognize the hand of the Lord in such a resurrection. This is…

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  • Proper Bible study

    Proper Bible study must always be preceded by thorough reading. Most mistakes in interpretation are caused because the context of the passage is neglected. In most cases, the context is neglected because it is not read. Often new Christians are introduced to certain “narrow” types of Bible study (memorization, Bible study guides, etc) without having…

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  • The god of the family

    “It is no unusual thing for a little child to be the god of the family—and wherever that is the case, there is a rod laid up in store in that house. You cannot make idols of your children without finding out, sooner or later, that God makes them into rods with which He will…

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  • Pride

    “For pride is a spiritual cancer; it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.” ~CS Lewis

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