SERMON TOPIC: Y3-M3-L10- Christology Apologetics Accountability
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 20 May 2022
Sermon synopsis: A Biblical understanding of Jesus Christ is crucial to our salvation. Many cults and world religions claim to believe in Jesus Christ. The problem is that they do not believe in the Jesus Christ.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Which day was Jesus crucified
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 25 April 2021
Sermon synopsis: While the Bible states that Jesus rose on the first day of the week, the day that he was crucified is not mentioned. Traditionally Christians celebrate the death of Jesus on a Friday and the.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Answering the unbeliever - Part 4b
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 28 February 2021
Sermon synopsis: Sharing the gospel with someone who has genuine questions.
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SERMON TOPIC: Do I have a soul - NDEs and OBEs
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 1 November 2020
Sermon synopsis: The Bible teaches that man’s soul continues to live after the body dies. We read of Rachel:
It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Answering the unbeliever - Part 4a
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 11 October 2020
Sermon synopsis: Those who deny God’s existence must invent explanations for the origin of life on earth.
- Life on earth spontaneously willed itself into existence out of nothing.
- The inert elements that.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Answering the unbeliever - Part 3
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 27 September 2020
Sermon synopsis: Why is there evil in the world if God is good?
Atheists, skeptics and other critics of Christianity often argue against God on the basis of the reality of evil and suffering. “See,” they say,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Answering the unbeliever - Part 2
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 13 September 2020
Sermon synopsis: Common questions asked when a Christian is confronted by a staunch unbeliever.
Can the Bible be trusted?
Isn’t a good life sufficient enough to get to Heaven?
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SERMON TOPIC: Answering the unbeliever - Part 1
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 8 March 2020
Sermon synopsis: Common questions asked when a Christian is confronted by a staunch unbeliever.
1) What about the heathen who haven’t heard the Gospel?
2) What about the sincere Buddhist, Hindu etc?
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SERMON TOPIC: The Biblical God
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 15 December 2019
Sermon synopsis: God’s Word tells us that believing in the real true God of the Bible is not enough to secure Salvation, let alone believing in some false god, or some non existent god, that is just the figment of.....
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SERMON TOPIC: God's Word - Part 2
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 24 February 2019
Sermon synopsis: The three most basic Christian truths
1. God actually exists.
2. He has revealed Himself in a way that is understandable to people.
3. His revelation has been preserved for us in the.....
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SERMON TOPIC: What does "After its kind" mean
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 1 February 2019
Sermon synopsis: Repeatedly in the creation account (Gen 1:11,12,21,24, 25) we are told that God created plants and animals ACCORDING TO THEIR KIND. These passages seem to imply that no kind of animal or plant would.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The Gap Theory
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 9 November 2018
Sermon synopsis: There are two variants of the theory:
PASSIVE GAP THEORY (Restitution Creationism, Creatio Ex Materia)
According to this view God simply waited for millions of years after creating the heavens and.....
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SERMON TOPIC: God's Word - Part 1
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 23 September 2018
Sermon synopsis: The three most basic Christian truths:
1. God actually exists.
2. He has revealed Himself in a way that is understandable to people.
3. His revelation has been preserved for us in the Bible
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SERMON TOPIC: Are there 2 creation accounts
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 7 September 2018
Sermon synopsis: A frequent claim is made that there are two different (and contradictory) creation accounts in Genesis 1 and 2.
- This alleged contradiction is used to try and prove that two different authors.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Where was the garden of Eden
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 11 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: Of course, some atheists will deny that there ever was a Garden of Eden. A few Christians and Jews claim that the Garden was not literal, but the Genesis narrative is simply a poetic allegory for.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The Trinity in Genesis
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 3 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: God: This is the ancient Hebrew word Elohim. Grammatically it is a plural word used as if it were singular. The verbs and pronouns used with Elohim should be in the plural, but when Elohim refers to.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Giving an answer for your Hope
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 15 July 2018
Sermon synopsis: 1 Peter 3:15 In your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do I have a soul - Part 6
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 29 April 2018
Sermon synopsis: Christian views
1) Pre-existence: Influenced by Plato’s teaching, it holds that souls exist before the creation of the body. God created all human souls at the same time and keeps them in a.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Resurrections - Part 1
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 30 March 2018
Sermon synopsis: The importance of Jesus’ resurrection
- The only sign Jesus would give to a wicked generation
- One of the criteria used for apostleship was that the person had to be a witness of the.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do I have a soul - Part 5
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 18 March 2018
Sermon synopsis: Christian theologians differ on how many components make up the human being.
- One part (Monism) – the view that humans are not composed of various components (i.e. body, soul), but rather as a.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Our response to suffering - Part 3
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 14 January 2018
Sermon synopsis: We have examined some more purposes of suffering.
Now we will consider:
What is our response to suffering?
What is God’s response to our suffering?
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SERMON TOPIC: The purpose of suffering - Part 2b
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 17 December 2017
Sermon synopsis: We will now examine some more purposes of suffering.
1) Suffering crucifies the flesh and focuses us on the truly important things.
2) Suffering teaches us to rely on God, not on self.
3) In.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The inevitability of suffering - Part 1
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 19 November 2017
Sermon synopsis: The Bible acknowledges the issue of suffering as part of the human condition.
The book of Job, one of the longer books in the Bible, is dedicated solely to the question of suffering. Likewise the.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do I have a soul - Part 4
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 1 October 2017
Sermon synopsis: Christian theologians differ on how many components make up the human being.
- One part (Monism) – the view that humans are not composed of various components (i.e. body, soul), but rather as a.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The problem of evil - Part 1
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 6 March 2016
Sermon synopsis: One of the most common questions people ask Christians is how a good, all-knowing and all-powerful God could allow evil in the world.
The problem of evil in the world and why a righteous God.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Good and evil
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 15 August 2015
Sermon 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 upbringing.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do Muslims worship the same God as Christians - Part 4- The Bible vs the Quran and Hadith
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 26 July 2015
Sermon synopsis: The Bible consists of 66 individual books, 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. The books are each divided into chapters (1,189 chapters altogether). The Quran contains 114.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do Muslims worship the same God as Christians - Part 3 - Jesus and Muhammad
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 7 December 2014
Sermon synopsis: Islam’s Jesus is not the same as Christianity’s Jesus. He was not God’s Son, never died on the cross, was never resurrected and was just a prophet in the same fashion as Moses and Abraham.
The.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Islam and Christianity - Part 2 - Infidels and Jews
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 13 April 2014
Sermon synopsis: The Quran is sharply contrasted to the Bible when it comes to the status and treatment of infidels (i.e. non-believers) and other races (in particular Jews).
Ishmael’s mother, Hagar, was told by.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do I have a soul - Part 2
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 26 January 2014
Sermon synopsis: There are 3 main ways in which we can view the world:
1) Materialism holds that there is nothing in the world besides matter. Accordingly, materialists view subjective consciousness as nothing.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do I have a soul - Part 1
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 24 November 2013
Sermon synopsis: Does man have a soul and/or spirit?
Not according to many atheistic psychiatrists and neuroscientists.
Materialists and atheists maintain that the physical world is all there is, and that man.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Resurrection of Jesus - Part 3
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 13 October 2013
Sermon synopsis: The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the belief that Jesus returned to life on a Sunday three days after he was crucified. A central tenet of Christian faith, it forms part of the early Nicene.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Resurrection of Jesus - Part 2
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 18 August 2013
Sermon synopsis: The resurrection of Jesus is the pivotal teaching of the Christian faith.
If Jesus had not been resurrected, he would have been just another failed Messiah. Christianity would have been no.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Science and The Bible - Part 2
BY: Leston Blackburn ON: 17 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: Science and The Bible - Part 2
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SERMON TOPIC: Science and The Bible - Part 1
BY: Leston Blackburn ON: 10 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: Science and The Bible - Part 1
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