SERMON TOPIC: Suffering and persecution
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 25 November 2018
Sermon synopsis: There are three root sources of suffering for us as Christians.
1) Our flesh: (our physical body with its desires, weakened by our sinful nature)
2) The World: (Society, the systems of government.....
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?
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.....
SERMON TOPIC: The purpose of suffering - Part 2a
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 27 November 2017
Sermon synopsis: Buddhism sees suffering as inevitable and without purpose. To escape it, we must cease to exist.
In contrast, Christianity sees suffering as inevitable, but as serving a divine purpose.
1).....
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.....
SERMON TOPIC: Persecution and God's provision
BY: Rudi Korda ON: 5 November 2017
Sermon synopsis: Challenges facing foreign missionaries and Christian converts in countries hostile to the gospel and how God undertakes and provides.
SERMON TOPIC: The Purpose of Suffering - Part 2
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 2 February 2014
Sermon synopsis: “What is the purpose of suffering?”
- God speaks to us through suffering
- We learn obedience through suffering (to trust even when we don’t understand)
- To prevent spiritual pride
- In our.....
SERMON TOPIC: Who the heck was Stephen
BY: Des Burrows ON: 2 June 2013
Sermon synopsis: Our history is full of men and women that have made some contribution to history whether positive or negative
SERMON TOPIC: The persecuted church
BY: Lynne van Wyk ON: 11 November 2012
Sermon synopsis: Hebrews 13:2: remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves are also in the body.
SERMON TOPIC: The persecuted church
BY: Leston Blackburn ON: 14 November 2010
Sermon synopsis: The persecuted church
SERMON TOPIC: The Purpose of Suffering
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 21 August 2010
Sermon synopsis: The Bible gives a good deal of attention to the reality of suffering.
It does not regard it as an illusion as some religions and sects do, nor deal with it superficially.
CAN SUFFERING BE GOD’S.....
SERMON TOPIC: Persecution
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 27 July 2008
Sermon synopsis: Sometimes in our trials and difficulties we feel isolated and alone. We may try and project an image that everything’s okay when inside we’re hurting.
In Jesus’ parable the storm came to both the.....
SERMON TOPIC: The persecuted church
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 15 June 2008
Sermon synopsis: Heb 13:3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
SERMON TOPIC: The Church Triumphant under Communism
BY: Richard Wurmbrand ON:
Sermon synopsis: Wurmbrand, who passed through the penal facilities of Craiova, Gherla, the Danube-Black Sea Canal, Vacaresti, Malmaison, Cluj, and ultimately Jilava, spent three years in solitary confinement. His.....
SERMON TOPIC: How to forgive
BY: Corrie Ten Boom ON:
Sermon synopsis: Corrie Ten Boom's family sheltered Jews in Holland during the Holocaust.
She subsequently lost her freedom, her dignity, and her beloved sister and father in the Nazi concentration camps. In God’s.....