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 July, 2008
The incoming Kingdom of God often challenges conventional social norms to such an extent that it is perceived as anarchic or even evil.
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20 July, 2008
God is with us everywhere, whether we realise it or not, but there is still value in honouring special places of promise and revelation.
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13 July, 2008
Jesus calls us to do the hard work to prepare the soil of our hearts an minds, ready to grow the fruits of faith, hope and love.
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21 June, 2008
In Baptism, Christ has united us with himself in his death to sin and his resurrection to radically new life.
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15 June, 2008
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Communion, Grace, Hospitality, Love
Christ’s desire to extend hospitality to us, to welcome us at his table, is so great that he will give even his own life to bring us into the experience of his love. This is the pattern for our call to hospitality too.
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8 June, 2008
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Discipleship, Resurrection, Vocation
You might have been written off as a dead loss (even by yourself), but only respond to the call of Christ, and you will live!
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25 May, 2008
The kingdom of God is celebrating our life together now and our shared hopes and dreams of a world where all might eat and drink, and we are called to do what we can to bring this world about.
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6 April, 2008
Christ is so present we loose the ability to see him. We need to worship to recover our sight.
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24 February, 2008
When Jesus sees us for who we really are, we are enabled to see ourselves for who we really are, without boxes and labels, and so be saved to become who we were created to be.
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17 February, 2008
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Discipleship, Pilgrimage, Repentance, Vocation
God calls us to new beginnings, and we have to let go of old certainties to embrace them.
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10 February, 2008
Jesus full humanity meant that temptation was real for him, as it is for us. Temptation is not in itself bad, but indicates to us that we have a gift of choice.
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27 January, 2008
The message of the cross cuts against everything that would divide us from one another, and so cuts against everything that would drive us out.