Link to sermons on topic: PERSECUTION

SERMON TOPIC: Y3-M3-L1 Persecution

BY: Ken Paynter ON: 18 March 2022

Sermon synopsis: Luke 9:21-26 Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me.....

SERMON TOPIC: Counting the cost - Is Jesus worth it

BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 28 November 2021

Sermon synopsis: Going to a shop, you may see many things that you’d like to have. There’s one snag though – they all have a price tag. Luke 14:31-33 (NIV) “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another.....

SERMON TOPIC: Persecution 2

BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 21 November 2021

Sermon synopsis: According to Open Doors in just the last year (2021 World Watch List reporting period), there have been: Over 340 million Christians living in places where they experience high levels of.....

SERMON TOPIC: The Persecuted Church

BY: Ken Paynter ON: 7 November 2021

Sermon synopsis: From the 7th to the 14th of November Christians worldwide will be praying specifically for our brothers and sisters living in persecution. These days of prayer are known as IDOP (International Days.....

SERMON TOPIC: Persecution - The sixth sign

BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 6 December 2020

Sermon synopsis: On the Mount of Olives opposite the Jerusalem temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew (Mark 13:3) ask Jesus: “What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” [Matt 24:3] Jesus.....

SERMON TOPIC: The Job type sinner - PART 2

BY: Ken Paynter ON: 21 November 2020

Sermon synopsis: This type of sinner has been living a blessed, God protected life and then Satan is allowed to touch them. - People are shocked by what God allows to happen to this type of sinner. - When God has.....

SERMON TOPIC: The Job type sinner - PART 1

BY: Ken Paynter ON: 8 November 2020

Sermon synopsis: Job isn’t a story that we think of as a “persecution” story, but when you consider the book’s context it absolutely is. Many believe Job was the first book of the Bible written and therefore our.....

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.....