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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3 June, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hospitality, Love, Suffering, Trinity
The vision of the Trinity reveals some of the most important characteristics of God: radical mutual love, radically open hospitality, and transformative engagement with the suffering of the world.
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27 May, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Fear, Holy Spirit, Hope, Liberation, Resurrection, Salvation
The Holy Spirit is poured out on us so that the liberating presence of Christ may be with us all everywhere, freeing us from fear to live and speak boldly of the new life we have tasted.
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20 May, 2012
The Church is one body, sent into the world to live the life Jesus has begun, a life of love, reconciliation and mercy.
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13 May, 2012
Jesus invites us into a new relationship with God and with one another based on love and friendship instead of power and rivalry.
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6 May, 2012
God evaluates us only in terms of our growth to fruitfulness, expressed as Christ-like love, and such fruitfulness comes only from our interrelationship with Christ. God deals with us in whatever way will lead to further growth – sometimes that is gently, sometimes it is harshly, always it is for the same purpose.
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22 April, 2012
The foundation of our faith is in a living Christ who enables us to understand the Bible, rather than in a Bible that enables us to understand a dead Christ.
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7 April, 2012
The resurrection of Jesus is the most confronting and terrifying news imaginable, and all we can do (after trying to run) is surrender ourselves to his grace.
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25 March, 2012
The life and death of Jim Stynes give a contemporary picture of what it means to give your life away.
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18 March, 2012
Judgement is not something God angrily inflicts on us, but simply the fulfilment of our own decisions.
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11 March, 2012
The commandments cannot be imposed, but are what result when people have learned to love and their desires have merged with God’s.
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4 March, 2012
God’s covenant of love and grace is made unconditionally, not depending even on our response, and so the promises are made to our children whether they respond or not.
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12 February, 2012
Becoming Christlike takes discipline and commitment and practice, but the goal of fullness of life in Christ is worth whatever it takes.
