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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16 March, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Grace, Lent
What God has promised, God will make good on, no matter what the apparent obstacles, and our job is simply to set about cooperating with the promise-maker rather than with the obstacles.
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9 March, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Conversion, Discipleship, Grief, Healing, Lent, Suffering
Scripture: Mark
Lent can be a dark night filled with tears and mourning and loss, but it is worth it, for God’s joy comes in the morning.
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2 March, 2003
The Transfiguration points us back to Jesus’ baptism and forward to his resurrection, and reiterates that the only way from one to the other is the way of the cross.
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23 February, 2003
God has bound pastors and people together in Christ, that we might share in the ultimate victory of Christ as all God’s promises are fulfilled.
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22 February, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Discipleship, Prayer, Resurrection, Vocation
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Luke
By preparing ourselves to die with Christ, we are raised and transfigured, new people with a new vocation.
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16 February, 2003
God in Jesus Christ touches our grubby humanity to make it clean, so that human beings and human community might regain their colour, shape and original purpose.
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9 February, 2003
The demonic forces of our culture and time colonise our lives but if we turn to Christ, he will drive away the demons and fill us with his Spirit. His truth will set us free.
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2 February, 2003
We are called to take sides in a conflict between the prophet of love and peace and the prophets of hatred and violence.
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26 January, 2003
The story of Jonah nurtures our own life of faith, revealing that God can work his purposes out even in and through people like Jonah and us.
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24 December, 2002
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas
A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by St Leo the Great.
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22 December, 2002
God is always acting, but often in surprising and paradoxical ways. The ways of God often reverse human expectations.
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8 December, 2002
In the midst of horror and despair, Christ arrives with love enough, with peace enough, with hope enough to make things very, very, very different.