David Pawson describes Jesus’ thinking regarding the fall of the tower of Siloam in Luke chapter 13 and draws a radical conclusion for our life today.
Talk given in Southampton on 16th September 2001.

He described the main developments in his style of preaching, and provided guidance on sermon presentation, using several examples. He also explains how to choose words to make a sermon more memorable, before showing how to deliver the message prepared.

With personal experience of both, and a passionate desire to see them united, David Pawson has made a searching study of their remaining differences which he believes can be resolved without compromise. After defining and clarifying their positions, he addresses such critical points of divergence as theology and experience, prophecy and scripture, initiation, tongues, ministry and holiness. The challenge for both, he maintains, is to reconsider their traditional understanding in the light of all the biblical data.

But God is not arbitary or capricious. His attitude and actions are directly related to their willingness or stubborness to be a people who reflect his own character for all others to see. He will deal with all other nations in the same way He has dealt with His own.

Given in Ilford on the 9th July 2005.

Speaking from Matthew Chapter 24, David Pawson describes the four signs of the end of the age and how Jesus calls us to live now, ready and aware of the truth

What does it mean to become a Christian ?
What is known about Christ’s Second Coming and how can we prepare for it

This is a live interview with David Pawson by David Aldous of GOD-TV
David Pawson discusses the two books which he considers to be the most important he has written or ever will – ‘The Normal Christian Birth’ and ‘When Jesus Returns’.

The informal and intimate approach enables David Pawson to express personal insights, experiences and applications which bring the subjects to life in a fresh way. Traditional interpretations of Scripture are challenged.

We are not called to be credible to contemporary society, but rather, model a counted-culture of a truly healthy, holy and happy society in a world that has lost its bearings.

This is not a treatise on marriage or the ministry of women (though there are implications for both), it is addressed solely to the question of leadership in the redeemed people of God, which I am thus far convinced must be male.”

Is the idea of women in leadership biblical or is it yet another case of Christians being conformed to the world? What is the Spirit saying to the churches? Here is one side of the debate, probably best seen as ”opposing the motion”! This is not a treatise on marriage or the ministry of women – it is addressed soley to the question of leadership in the redeemed people of God.

Jesus is the centre of prayer – His teaching and example, His Blood and His intercession for us and our prayer in His Name. Who and what should we pray for? What was Jesus’ pattern and discipline in
prayer?

The Spirit shows us how to pray and He prays with us. We can pray with the mind and also at a level deeper than the mind.

David Pawson illustrates praying with tears, sighs and using other languages. He concludes by showing how we can receive the gift of praying in another language.

Past – Psalm 2
Present – Romans 1
Future – Revelation 6

David Pawson examines Islam and the Christian faith from a believer’s point of view and their impressions of mosque and church.
He accepts the challenge Islam faces convinced Christians with, and analyses the challenge we face them with, in the hope of bringing them back from Mohammed to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Why does Jesus need to return again?
Will all of us be judged by the Lord?
How can God, who is love, send people to Hell?
Will there be a new Earth?
What will Heaven be like?

Through the Cross and Resurrection, God offers us His own righteousness, provided we are willing to repent of our sins and our self-righteousness.The world needs to know about God’s offer of His righteousness.

(Talk given in June 2007 at Tonbridge in Kent).

The subjects covered are:

1. The Way of Salvation
2. Repentance
3. Believe – Ongoing Faith
4. Baptism in Water
5. Baptism in Holy Spirit
6. Theological Issues with Questions
7. Questions and Answers

Also available as a book: EXPLAINING THE KEY STEPS TO BECOMING A CHRISTIAN

Re-recorded in 2016 in Lower Earley. Originally called The Normal Christian Birth

The answer is that both time and place were critical for the survival of the body of Christ in the face of pagan religion and worldly culture. If the saints could ‘overcome’ here, they would be able to do so in all places and through all times.

The seven letters therefore have a permanent message, as well as a particularly contemporary application. The world is still very much with us, seeking to ‘overcome’ the church by external persecution or internal corruption. But the risen, ascended, returning Lord still walks among His churches, encouraging with promised rewards and warning of eternal loss.

These studies will leave the viewer with two questions which must be answered:

Which letter describes the church I belong to?
Am I an ‘overcomer’, in the church and the world?

He questions the adequacy of the typical ”sinners prayer” approach and gives practical tips on helping potential disciples to repent, believe, be baptised and recieve the Holy Spirit.

Talk given at Revelation TV in November 2009.

The case for and against the Christian use of Allah is fully examined and alternatives considered. Christians witnessing to Muslims need to have made their minds up on this crucial issue.

David Pawson has recently been questioning whether we have been scriptural or sentimental in focussing evangelistic preaching on the love of God and, more recently,
His ‘unconditional‘ love. He has drawn attention to some surprising biblical data:- that Jews in the Old Testament
and Christians in the New only talked about God’s love among themselves; that neither Jesus nor the apostles ever preached it publicly; and that the book of Acts contains
not a single reference to it in common with most other books in the Bible.

By contrast, the early evangelists focussed on God’s righteousness (e.g. Romans 1:16-17). People normally respond with: ‘What about John 3:16?’ which is widely assumed to be the best summary of the gospel we are able to preach. Yet it maybe a classic example of text out of context becoming a pretext, even one of the most mistranslated, misunderstood and misapplied.

Given on 19th February 2005

“If God is all-powerful and all-loving, how can He allow things like earthquakes to happen?” This question was acutely raised by the devastating tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004. David Pawson was invited to give three one hour broadcasts on Revelation TV to deal with this very issue.
David first dealt with three unsatisfactory answers – that all suffering is a mystery, that so much unselfish goodwill is generated and that God himself suffers with us. A sentimental view of the divine nature and human nature only compounds the problem. Only the Scriptural understanding of how God is and how bad we are can provide a solution that satisfies the reason and conscience. Such an event can then be seen as a global warning of worse to come and a token of a better beyond.
Given on Revelation TV in January 2005