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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26 April, 2009
Faith in the risen Christ is always a physical thing, experienced and expressed in physical ways.
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29 March, 2009
Jesus’s unique priesthood ensures that he is able to help us, and his solidarity with us in suffering ensures that he will help us.
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22 March, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Fullness of Life, Jesus, judgement, Liberation, Love, Salvation
God’s love for us is so great that God will do anything to give us a way out of the self-condemnation and self-destruction of continuing to live in conformity with the world’s ways.
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15 March, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: John
Jesus is angered by our trivialising of religion that inoculates us against the claims of a holy God, and calls us to clean out the crassness and commercialism and approach God on God’s terms.
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8 March, 2009
Hope is the melody of the future – Faith dances to it today
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22 February, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Fullness of Life, Jesus, Service
Scripture: Mark
When we glimpse the fullness of what could be, we are called to the tough work of bridging the gap between here and there.
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15 February, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Psalms
The unfailing love of God is with us, even in the tragedy, confusion, and anguished questions and doubts.
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8 February, 2009
God is with us to comfort and revive us in the face of horror, but also to challenge us to turn things around.
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1 February, 2009
Jesus meets us with not just words of hope, but with actions of authority and integrity.
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4 January, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Incarnation, Jesus, Reconciliation, Salvation
We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.
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24 December, 2008
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Let us keep the festival by standing confidently, and affirming our faith in the God who takes flesh among us, today!
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7 December, 2008
In God’s coming reign, things we find impossible to reconcile will be reconciled.