SERMON TOPIC: The Acts of the Apostles
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 20 July 2022
Sermon synopsis: An overview of the book of Acts.
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SERMON TOPIC: No man cared for my soul - Part 2
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 10 April 2022
Sermon synopsis: Jesus longed to give those who were “weary and burdened” rest for their souls:
Matt 11:28-30 (NIV) “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do the work of an Evangelist - Part 4
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 27 March 2022
Sermon synopsis: Five stages of evangelism.
1) Preparing the soil.
2) Planting (Sowing seed)
3) Cultivating
4) Harvesting
5) Preserving
A farmer first prepares the ground, then plants the seed, and then.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do the work of an Evangelist - Part 3
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 20 March 2022
Sermon synopsis: The Methods of Evangelism.
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SERMON TOPIC: No man cared for my soul
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 13 March 2022
Sermon synopsis: While hiding in a cave from his enemies, David cries in despair that “no man cared for my soul”.
Psalm 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would acknowledge me:.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Do the work of an Evangelist - Part 2
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 6 March 2022
Sermon synopsis: The Plan of Evangelism.
The Purpose of Evangelism.
The Promise of Evangelism.
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SERMON TOPIC: Do the work of an Evangelist
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 21 February 2022
Sermon synopsis: 2 Tim 4:5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
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SERMON TOPIC: Vision - Evangelism and missions
BY: Phillip Dungulu ON: 12 February 2022
Sermon synopsis: AGF pastor's meeting 12 Feb 2022.
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SERMON TOPIC: Y1-106- Evangelism and Church Growth
BY: Johnray Rennie ON: 30 September 2021
Sermon synopsis: Evangelism is recognized as one of the Five-fold miniseries.
It also follows, you would expect Evangelists to operate mostly outside of the Church.
The true Evangelist comes with a sense of.....
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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: God can use anyone
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 7 February 2021
Sermon synopsis: The heroes of the story were the most unlikely candidates:
1) They had leprosy.
2) They were outsiders who sat at the entrance of the city’s gate. 3) They were dying of starvation.
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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: Living water
BY: Prudence Mabasa ON: 22 March 2020
Sermon synopsis: John 4:13-14 (NIV) Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in.....
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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: Outreach and Evangelism
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 2 February 2020
Sermon synopsis: The root of the word evangelism, evangel, is derived from the Greek word euangelion which is translated good news. From that same word, we derive the word gospel. Many words in English are.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 5 - Trends and opportunities
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 18 November 2018
Sermon synopsis: Jesus gave the Great Commission 2000 years ago, what’s happened since?
“With the explosion of the church in the Southern Hemisphere, we must ask, does the church of the Lord Jesus Christ still.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Church planting
BY: Peter Watt ON: 10 October 2018
Sermon synopsis: Prov 24:3-4 By wisdom a house is built,
And by understanding it is established;
And by knowledge the rooms are filled
With all precious and pleasant riches.
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SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 7 - Trends and opportunities
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 26 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: TREND 1: MIGRATION
In the past you had to go to a foreign country to be a missionary to other people groups. Now many of those people groups are coming to us. “Go into all the world” includes.....
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SERMON TOPIC: MISSIONS- The prototype Christian church
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 22 July 2018
Sermon synopsis: Acts 11:26 The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
But what were the traits of this prototype church in Antioch where Christians first received their name? Amongst other things,.....
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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: i4118 Foundation
BY: Des Burrows ON: 24 June 2018
Sermon synopsis: Presentation on the work of the i4118 Foundation.
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SERMON TOPIC: Evangelism
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 4 February 2018
Sermon synopsis: Evangelism is the commitment to or act of preaching the Gospel with the intention of spreading the message and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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SERMON TOPIC: Here Am I, Send Me
BY: Nico Bougas ON: 25 September 2017
Sermon synopsis: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?”
Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
Isaiah 6.8
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SERMON TOPIC: Building the kingdom
BY: Gordon Calmeyer ON: 12 October 2016
Sermon synopsis: Some are called to preach the gospel, while others are called to make disciples.
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SERMON TOPIC: Evangelism
BY: Gordon Calmeyer ON: 14 August 2016
Sermon synopsis: We serve a God of grace and mercy. He doesn't excuse what we do, but he forgives.
There's a teaching going around now that you don't even have to repent anymore. God knows the decision that.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The parable of the banquet
BY: Lindsey Parker ON: 4 October 2015
Sermon synopsis: Luke 14:15 When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”
16 Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part3b - Global trends (cont)
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 13 September 2015
Sermon synopsis: So what are some of the global trends we are seeing in today’s world? How do these present challenges or opportunities for us to advance and complete the Great Commission?
- Positive trends in.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Passion for souls
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 23 August 2015
Sermon synopsis: When William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, was asked by the king of England what the ruling force of his life was, he replied, “Sir, some men’s passion is for gold, other men’s passion is.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Passion for souls - Part 2
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 10 August 2015
Sermon synopsis: While hiding in a cave from his enemies, David cries in despair that “no man cared for my soul” (Psalm 142:4)
Today too there are millions of people in the world whose souls it seems no one cares.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Last words of Jesus - The great commission
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 12 July 2015
Sermon synopsis: When someone is about to leave us (e.g. death or a departure to a faraway land), the last words they speak are ones that they consider to be the most important. There’s no time for wasted words when.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Missions
BY: Andy Barnard ON: 28 June 2015
Sermon synopsis: The importance and the true purpose of missions as seen throughout the Bible.
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SERMON TOPIC: Our Mission
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 21 June 2015
Sermon synopsis: Let me introduce my message today with two questions.
1) Do you consider yourself a true Christian, meaning "a Disciple of Christ Jesus" who is compelled by God's love to do his will?
2) What is.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 3- Global trends
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 7 June 2015
Sermon synopsis: If current patterns continue, the unreached will still be 23-28% of the world’s population in 2025 (Stan Park, Ethne '06). So how should we approach missions and evangelism? Should we just keep on.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Evangelism
BY: Tony Louch ON: 30 November 2014
Sermon synopsis: We are born again to reproduce.
We need to be part of emptying hell and filling heaven.
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SERMON TOPIC: The four lepers of Samaria
BY: Graham Sahling ON: 16 November 2014
Sermon synopsis: 2 Kings 7:3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission - Part 2 - Uneven distribution of resources
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 29 June 2014
Sermon synopsis: There is enough evangelistic activity to reach the whole world.
Enough activity for every one in the world to hear a 1-hour presentation of the Gospel every other day all year long.
Over 1,43.....
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SERMON TOPIC: True religion
BY: Candice Towndrow ON: 22 June 2014
Sermon synopsis: James 1:26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Last words of Jesus - The great commission
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 15 June 2014
Sermon synopsis: When someone is about to leave us (e.g. death or a departure to a faraway land), the last words they speak are ones that they consider to be the most important.
There’s no time for wasted words.....
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SERMON TOPIC: What makes good soil
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 25 May 2014
Sermon synopsis: A Christian who does not bear fruit for the kingdom is not good soil. You cannot say “I am good soil” when you haven’t produced any harvest. In the parable of the sower Jesus said:
Matt 13:23.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The scattering of the church
BY: Mark Hodgetts ON: 24 May 2014
Sermon synopsis: It took Acts 8:1 to fulfill Acts 1:8.
Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the.....
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SERMON TOPIC: ANTIOCH - The prototype Christian church
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 15 February 2014
Sermon synopsis: Acts 11:26 The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
As Antioch was the place where followers of Jesus were first named “Christians”, the name by which we are still called today,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Ministers of Freedom
BY: Des Burrows ON: 1 September 2013
Sermon synopsis: God, by His Spirit has made us competent. And this competence makes us Ministers of the new covenant. We are Minsters of FREEDOM
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SERMON TOPIC: Global Evangelism Mission
BY: Joseph Mpakanyane ON: 30 June 2013
Sermon synopsis: Joseph shares on the work of GEM (Global Evangelism Mission) in Lesotho. Also a brief look at the parable of the talents and what we can learn from it.
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SERMON TOPIC: God can use anyone
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 23 June 2013
Sermon synopsis: Former shoe salesman, D.L. Moody said,
“If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent. After all, there are comparatively few people.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Reaching the functionally illerate
BY: Ron Free ON: 17 June 2013
Sermon synopsis: A look at the challenges of reaching those who are functionally illiterate for Christ.
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SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 2
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai
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Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 6
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 7
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speakers: Candice Towndrow & Timothy Okhai.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me;.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 3
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 4
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Erica Grunewald.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 5
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai.
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Intro
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Erica Grunewald
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Christian Hospital visitation - Session 1
BY: HCF ON: 27 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Training on Christian Hospital visitation by Healthcare Christian Fellowship.
Speaker: Timothy Okhai
Matt 25:36 ... naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: How To Invest Your Life
BY: Steve Dutton ON: 14 April 2013
Sermon synopsis: Matthew 25:14-30
"Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to.....
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SERMON TOPIC: On this rock I will build my church
BY: Gordon Calmeyer ON: 23 February 2013
Sermon synopsis: Judges 6:13 (NASB) Then Gideon said to him, "O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, 'Did not.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Outreach
BY: Graham Sahling ON: 2 September 2012
Sermon synopsis: Outreach is defined as an organisation's involvement with the community, especially in providing a service or advice outside it’s usual centres of operation
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SERMON TOPIC: Mission Shaped Communications
BY: Leston Blackburn ON: 27 July 2012
Sermon synopsis: Isa 54:2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Healthcare Christian Fellowship
BY: HCF ON: 24 June 2012
Sermon synopsis: Mark 16:15 (KJV) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Ps 142:4 (KJV) I looked on my right hand, and beheld , but there was no man that would.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The prototype Christian church (Missionary church)
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 17 June 2012
Sermon synopsis: Followers of Jesus were known by some as the “Nazarene sect” (Acts 24:5).
At the time of Stephen’s martyrdom, Christianity was referred to as “the Way” (Acts 9:1-2)
But the disciples were first.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Follow me - Come and See
BY: Des Burrows ON: 16 November 2011
Sermon synopsis: In many large stores, employees are instructed to take customers to find what they are looking for rather than simply giving them verbal directions.
Now the same can be true when someone enquires.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The Great Commission
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 24 July 2011
Sermon synopsis: Often people ask, "What prophetic event remains unfulfilled to prevent the return of Jesus?"
Well consider this prophecy by Jesus.
In Matthew 24:14, speaking prophetically Jesus said that "this.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Solving community problems
BY: Costa Mitchell ON: 6 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: AGF 2010 annual conference at YFC Cyara.
Costa Mitchell is the national director of the Association of Vineyard Churches in South Africa.
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SERMON TOPIC: Our mission
BY: Costa Mitchell ON: 6 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: AGF 2010 annual conference at YFC Cyara.
Costa Mitchell is the national director of the Association of Vineyard Churches in South Africa.
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SERMON TOPIC: Evangelism tools
BY: Justus Carstens ON: 5 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: AGF 2010 annual conference at YFC Cyara.
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SERMON TOPIC: Mercy Actions
BY: Julio Da Silva ON: 5 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: AGF 2010 annual conference at YFC Cyara.
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SERMON TOPIC: God's heart for the lost
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 19 September 2010
Sermon synopsis: Psalm 50:16 But to the wicked, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? 17 You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you. 18 When you see a thief,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Evangelism
BY: Colin Pietersen ON: 12 September 2010
Sermon synopsis: Salvation is not just a fire-insurance against hell.
You are saved so that you can do the work of the Lord.
God wants us to go into all the world and reach the lost and dying nations of the world.
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SERMON TOPIC: Missions
BY: Rudi Korda ON: 1 August 2010
Sermon synopsis: Matt 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord,.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The Unfinished Task
BY: Louis Blom ON: 25 July 2010
Sermon synopsis: Every year… 36.4 million …people die without Christ. The 10/40 Window has:
- 65% of the world’s population.
- 90% of the world’s poorest.
- 95% those unreached by Christian witness.
The.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The disobedient church
BY: Missions ON: 18 April 2010
Sermon synopsis: (1) THE COMMAND
(2) THE CONCERN
(3) THE CAUSE &
(4) THE CURE
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SERMON TOPIC: The Gideons
BY: Alec Stewart ON: 22 November 2009
Sermon synopsis: Alec Stewart shares at Brakpan Assembly on the work of the Gideons in South Africa and the world. The Gideons International is an interdenominational association of Christian business and.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The power of the Holy Spirit - "Dunamis"
BY: Louis Blom ON: 6 June 2009
Sermon synopsis: Louis Blom gives feedback from Judea Harvest. 1000 tents set up, 10000 crusades, 4500 churches planted, 65 churches planted in India.
Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Thirsting for God
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 17 May 2009
Sermon synopsis: Without the Lord we fall into one of 2 categories of people that Jesus addressed; sinners and Pharisees.
Do you fall into either one of these groups?
Are we like the self-righteous Pharisee who.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Missions
BY: Candice Towndrow ON: 31 August 2008
Sermon synopsis: Jer 17:5 This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
6 He will be like a bush in the.....
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SERMON TOPIC: God uses the things man despises
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 6 July 2008
Sermon synopsis: Just as David used 5 stones to defeat Goliath, so God uses 5 things to defeat Satan. He uses:
(1) the foolish things,
(2) the weak things,
(3) the lowly things,
(4) the despised things AND
(5).....
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SERMON TOPIC: Get ready, get power and go
BY: Julio Da Silva ON: 16 February 2008
Sermon synopsis: In order to do God's work we must be prepared (get ready), we must must have the power of the Holy Spirit (get power) - and then we must GO.
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SERMON TOPIC: The Common Characteristics of a Successful Church Plant (THESIS)
BY: Leston Blackburn ON: 1 January 2008
Sermon synopsis: A summary of a dissertation identifying the common characteristics which contribute to the success of a church plant as identified by church planters and organizations around the world. More than.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Evangelism
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 26 August 2007
Sermon synopsis: 4 lepers went out from a city that was starving and found food, but while they were feasting they said “What we are doing is not right”.
In like manner, the gospel is one beggar telling another.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Being a witness
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 3 September 2005
Sermon synopsis: We are not all evangelists, but we are all called to be witnesses.
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SERMON TOPIC: Witnesses
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 27 June 1999
Sermon synopsis: Heb 10:28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled.....
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SERMON TOPIC: The 4 Ms for churches of tomorrow
BY: David Wong ON: 17 June 1995
Sermon synopsis: David Wong from the Pentecostal Mission in Hong Kong speaks on the “M’s” that are required for the church of the 21st century to remain relevant. They are not Methodology, Money and.....
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SERMON TOPIC: Becoming a Christian
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 9 April 1995
Sermon synopsis: How to become a Christian and how to lead someone to Christ.
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SERMON TOPIC: Taking South Africa for God
BY: Nicholas Bhengu ON: 6 March 1955
Sermon synopsis: An article in the March 1955 Pentecostal Evangel by Nicholas Bhengu on "Taking South Africa for God."
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