Sermons
At Open Icon Baptist Church, we value preaching that engages deeply, humbly and honestly with Jesus, the Bible, and the pain and joy of living in the real world. And since going permanently online, we have been able to welcome great preachers from all over the world without having to wait for them to visit our shores.
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27 November, 2022
Preacher: Scott Cowdell
Topic: Apocalypse, Discipleship, Liberation
The Advent break in of God in Christ is underway, bringing disruption of a status quo that our world needs to be free of, and liberation from the imprisonment of sin.
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20 November, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conflict, Crucifixion, Culture, Jesus, Law, Leadership, Politics, Purity
Scripture: Colossians, Jeremiah, Luke
Jesus comes to break us free from oppressive understandings of God and of God’s expectations of us.
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13 November, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Conflict, Discipleship, Hope, Love, Prophesy, Violence
The global social breakdown of which Jesus speaks is caused by the failure of our old oppressive ways of maintaining peace, but God has promised us a better way on the other side.
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6 November, 2022
Preacher: Lina Toth (Andronoviene)
Topic: Church, Community, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Resurrection
Scripture: Luke
Jesus’s perplexing teaching on marriage and singleness calls us into a new network of relationships in which all are fully valued.
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1 November, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
The faithful who have gone before us are held securely in the powerful gracious memory of God, where their love and prayers for us live on until we are united with them in resurrection.
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30 October, 2022
Jesus seeks out and embraces the outcasts, taking upon himself the hatred and hostility that had been directed at them.
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23 October, 2022
God invites us into a journey of healing, growth and reconciliation, and values our engagement with that journey far above our individual accomplishments.
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16 October, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Hope
Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Jeremiah, Luke
God has promised a time of resurrection and renewal, and has given us guidance for living faithfully in the meantime.
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9 October, 2022
Preacher: Belinda Groves
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Gratitude, Hospitality, Mission
Scripture: Luke
Jesus challenges us to bring our lives to where God is active, to share in building the kingdom of God.
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2 October, 2022
When you know yourself truly beloved by God in Christ, you are freed from fear and shame to live fully and generously and courageously.
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25 September, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Luke
The cross of Jesus can teach us to recognise the innocence of suffering, and so enable us to recognise our own dependence on God’s mercy and to stop digging our own hells.
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18 September, 2022
Jesus’s parables always shock us, and few things shock us more than the outrageous graciousness that God shows us and calls for from us.
