Naracoorte Presbyterian Church

  • Preaching the living Word

    “Preaching is bringing the transforming truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ from a passage that has been properly understood, cogently and practically applied, and delivered with the engaging tenderness and passion of a person who has been broken and restored by the very truths he now stands to communicate. You simply cannot do this…

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  • Death can no longer surprise us

    “In recent years we have become increasingly familiar with the thought of death. We ourselves are surprised by the composure with which we accept the news of the death of our contemporaries. “We can no longer hate Death so much; we have discovered something of kindness in his features and are almost reconciled to him.…

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  • Prayed for your minister?

    “Very likely if we prayed more for ministers, they would be more blessed to us. There is many a man who cannot ‘hear’ his minister and the reason may be that God never hears him pray for his minister.” – Charles Spurgeon

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  • The Holy Sprit and Preaching

    “It is the work of the Spirit to make hearers conscious of a presence distinct from that of the speaker… The Holy Spirit is a person.  He speaks to persons and he acts, not as some kind of blind force, but as the Spirit of truth and by the word of God… His is the…

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  • Mediocrity and the glory of God

    “Mediocrity is a heart problem. We have lost our commitment to the highest levels of excellence because we have lost our awe. Awe amnesia is the open door that permits mediocrity in … “Awe of God inspires, motivates, and convicts. There is no replacement for such awe in the leadership of the church of Jesus…

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  • True repentance

    “True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.” ~ J.C. Ryle

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  • Heavenly, lifegiving grace

    “Man is unwilling to give up sin—he loves it too much—he is unwilling to be made holy for he has no time for spiritual things. God, then, must come to man, for how can man, being naturally dead, and naturally unwilling, ever come to God?” – Charles Spurgeon

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  • Born again – a new life!

    “To be born again is to enter into a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikes, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, ourselves, the…

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  • The power of the blood

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  • God’s freedom

    “It is a question of the freedom of God, which finds its strongest evidence precisely in that God freely chose to be bound to historical human beings and to be placed at the disposal of human beings.  God is free not from human beings but for them.  Christ is the word of God’s freedom.” –…

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