DEATH
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Funeral of Malcolm MacDonald
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 27 May 2023
Synopsis: In loving memory of Our beloved Father and Grandfather:
Malcolm MacDonald (28/12/1938 – 15/05/2023)
The death of the godless versus the godly
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 3 April 2023
Synopsis: ARE YOU PREPARED FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH?
It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day. Christians must live their lives packed up and ready to go.
Jesus spoke of.....
Desiree Memorial
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 21 January 2023
Synopsis: Memorail service for Desiree van Wyk.
Death Judgement Heaven and Hell - Part 3
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 13 November 2022
Synopsis: In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things or four last things of man (Latin: quattuor novissima) are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the.....
Death Judgement Heaven and Hell - Part 2
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 30 October 2022
Synopsis: We cannot say that a person dies young because of sin or wickedness. There are examples of the wicked living long and the righteous dying young in Scripture, so we cannot produce formulas and try to.....
Death Judgement Heaven and Hell
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 16 October 2022
Synopsis: In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things or four last things of man (Latin: quattuor novissima) are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the.....
Funeral service- Varun
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 7 September 2022
Synopsis: Death is a certainty that all of us must face one day.
Heb 9:27 Just as man is destined to die once…
Gen 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since.....
Funeral - Thora Joost
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 8 December 2021
Synopsis: Celebration of Thora’s life (3 August 1941 – 1 December 2021)
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not.....
Funeral service - Valerie Heggie
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 15 October 2021
Synopsis: People generally don’t like to think about death, so funerals also give us a chance to reflect on our own mortality. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be.....
Funeral - Lynette Rautenbach
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 12 October 2021
Synopsis: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
For we.....
Funeral service - Varun
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 7 September 2021
Synopsis: When we are younger we often feel that we are immortal.
James 4:13-15 (NIV) Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and.....
Funeral Brenda
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 3 June 2020
Synopsis: Are you saved?
- Do you realize that you are a sinner?
- Do you take responsibility for your sin?
- Do you realize who Jesus is?
- Do you confess your faith in Him openly?
Funeral - Corrie Becker
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 1 July 2019
Synopsis: We glory in strength and power, but God thinks differently and works differently.
We frown on death and weakness but God uses it for His Glory. The cross does not appeal or make.....
Funeral service - Margaret Kraft
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 19 June 2019
Synopsis: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States was a printer, author, politician, scientist and inventor. When he was about to die, he wrote in advance the epitaph.....
Funeral - Lynn Cameron
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 6 June 2019
Synopsis: Death is not a popular topic of conversation and people in general avoid having to deal with it. We cannot however avoid death as somewhere along the line we are confronted with our own mortality,.....
Funeral - Elize Mathiesen
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 3 May 2019
Synopsis: Our idea as humans of what is good and what is evil is very different from what God says is good and what is evil.
Modern psychology states that man is inherently good and that a person’s.....
Funeral service - Lindiwe Shange
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 1 May 2019
Synopsis: Death is not something for the child of God to fear:
1 Thess 4:13,16 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the.....
Funeral - Allan Fleet
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 13 July 2018
Synopsis: James 4:13-16 Now listen, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money. Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow......
Are you prepared for eternity
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 4 August 2017
Synopsis: Nate Saint (1923-1956) the missionary pilot who, along with 4 others (including Jim Elliot) was killed while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. He said, “People who do not know.....
Funeral - Mashel William Malabaro
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 17 June 2017
Synopsis: Isaiah 57:1-2 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly.....
Funeral - Berkley Watt
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 26 May 2017
Synopsis: Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Funeral - Charlotte Bate
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 6 May 2017
Synopsis: James 4:13-16 Now listen, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money. Why, you do not even know what will happen.....
Funeral of Petronella Ferreira
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 9 October 2016
Synopsis: When Benjamin Franklin was about to die, he asked that a picture of Jesus on the cross should be so placed in his bedroom that he could look, as he said, “upon the form of the Silent Sufferer.” He.....
Sam Ennis memorial
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 23 July 2016
Synopsis: Sam was born in 1932 in Belfast, at the Royal Victoria Hospital. He lived his early life in a small, terraced home with his grandparents in East Belfast. His first job as a teenager was.....
Funeral - Linda Oelofse
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 29 September 2015
Synopsis: When life caves in, you do not need reasons, you need comfort. You do not need some answers; you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation; he comes to us with his presence......
Funeral - Sandra Mclaughlin
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 11 June 2015
Synopsis: Isaiah 57:1-2 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk.....
Death
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 1 February 2015
Synopsis: Death is man’s final appointment on earth. Death is not a popular topic of conversation and people in general avoid having to deal with it and either embrace the lie that everyone goes to heaven.....
Funeral service - Boet Sadie
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 9 December 2014
Synopsis: I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, “She.....
Funeral - Ellen Sahling
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 10 March 2014
Synopsis: 2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Ellen made the decision to acknowledge Christ as her .....
Funeral of Nick Georgakis
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 13 February 2014
Synopsis: When life caves in, you do not need reasons, you need comfort. You do not need some answers; you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation; he comes to us with his presence. We.....
The death of the godless
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 13 October 2013
Synopsis: Will a loving God send sinners to hell?
Who spoke the most about hell in the Bible?
Was the story of the rich man who went to hell a parable?
Is there consciousness in hell, “soul sleep” or.....
Funeral of Michael Chinsamy
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 19 May 2013
Synopsis: God’s perspective on death.
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants.
Isaiah 57:1-2 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are.....
Good people go to hell
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 23 September 2012
Synopsis: Now right up front let me clarify that I did not title this ministry “All good people go to Hell” and in fact I could have used a title “Bad people go to Heaven” but once again I would have.....
Are you prepared for eternity
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 28 July 2011
Synopsis: The story is told of a poor man who happened to find Aladdin's magic lamp. On rubbing the lamp, a genie appeared and granted him one wish. So he asked for a newspaper exactly a year into the future......
Appointment with death
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 19 November 2010
Synopsis: Funeral service for Mersia Hartslief.
Funeral - Bella Hannemann
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 4 August 2010
Synopsis: When Benjamin Franklin was about to die, he asked that a picture of Jesus on the Cross should be so placed in his bedroom that he could look, as he said, "upon the form of the Silent Sufferer." He.....
The certainty of DEATH and JUDGMENT
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 20 May 2010
Synopsis: By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. (Gen 3:19)
Why, you do not even know.....
Death - our final destination
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 20 May 2007
Synopsis: Death - the inescapable reality we all have to face one day. How can we best prepare ourselves for our final destination?
Heb 9:27 says that “man is destined to die once, and after that to face.....
Hell and eternal punishment
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 9 August 2005
Synopsis: What does the Bible really teach about hell and eternal punishment? Are the wicked punished or exterminated? Who spoke the most about hell in the Bible? Are there degrees of punishment? What is the.....
And there will be no more
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 1 January 2001
Synopsis: A look at the “no mores” in the kingdom of God that is to come. No more separation from God, no more night, no more sea, no more corruption, no more sin, no more curse, no more bad memories, no more.....
Heaven - Our attitude in this life
Sermon by John Ward on 7 March 1999
Synopsis: Often Christians don’t want to talk about heaven because we are too satisfied and comfortable in this world.
Is there any truth in the saying that you can be “too heavenly-minded to be of any.....
Life after Death
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 30 July 1995
Synopsis: What are Hades, Sheol, Gehenna, Tartarus and Queber?
What does the Bible say about soul sleep? Is the spirit simply the same as “breath” as JW’s teach?
Did Jesus suffer in hell (as some teach).....
Funeral of Lawrence Lightbody
Sermon by Siegfried Aussel on
Synopsis: Eccl 7:1-4 A good reputation is more valuable than the most expensive perfume. The day one dies is better than the day he is born! It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. You.....
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