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, 2003
A fortified inner self not only enables a person to offer love properly but to receive love properly, even from God, to give without strings, to receive without suspicion.
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20 July, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, Mark
The answers to the questions about our future directions are not easy, but we can trust the God who holds our future in his hands.
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13 July, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Commitment, Fullness of Life, Gratitude, Jesus, Worship
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark
If we can lose ourselves in the worship of Christ, then Christ will come to fill our emptied egos with his own self which now dances in the freedom of God.
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6 July, 2003
Rediscovering the mission of Jesus is one pathway through which we might re-enter the experience of dependence on God.
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8 June, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Depression, Fullness of Life, Holy Spirit, Salvation
The day of Pentecost is the day when the Spirit comes to interrupt and call into question the inevitability of our despair.
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25 May, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Hospitality, Love, Resurrection
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts, John
The resurrection has broken open many old certainties, and our ethics must now be grounded in the new things God is doing, characterised by radically inclusive love, rather than in the old restrictions.
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18 May, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Jesus, Mission, Service, Spirituality
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts, John
God has promised that if we stay connected to him, then he will give us the energy and the love to go out from our comfort-zones into the alien territory of those who need God’s love most of all.
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11 May, 2003
The message that salvation is exclusively in the hands of the risen Christ may be unfashionable, but it is the only message of salvation we have to offer.
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4 May, 2003
The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
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27 April, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Evil, Forgiveness, Grace, Healing, Jesus, Resurrection, Suffering
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John
As the victim of the ultimate in human evil, the risen Christ is the One who can offer the complete forgiveness, to us, and through us to the rest of the world.
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6 April, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Culture, Discernment, Faithfulness, Grace, Hope, Incarnation, Suffering, Weakness
Scripture: John
God invites us to be immersed in another possible reality, to look at the world with the dark and contrary light that comes from the cross of Jesus.
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30 March, 2003
Christ crucified is both a sign of the ultimate consequence of evil, and of the ultimate victory of Christ over evil through the power of suffering love.