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 January, 2002
Jesus calls us to take the way less travelled, to leave behind the sin that entangles, to be welcomed by God, that we may have power to welcome and love even our enemies.
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20 January, 2002
The impossible life of peace, joy, justice centred in the other, only becomes possible because God makes it possible.
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6 January, 2002
The gifts we most need – a place of belonging and a place of sacred meaning – will be found when we offer them to others.
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23 December, 2001
Joseph is an admirable model of the willingness to put calling and values ahead of convenience or reputation.
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9 December, 2001
Hope is a courageous and active stance towards life which is nourished in those who attend to the voice of God in Scripture.
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4 November, 2001
Faced with the callous injustice of the world, it takes tenacious trust in the vision of God’s just reign to survive.
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28 October, 2001
The faith of Christ is about the redemptive power of wounds, so love your wound and befriend it, for it is probably an angel of God in disguise.
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7 October, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Anger, Apocalypse, Depression, Faith, Love, Salvation, Suffering
Scripture: Jeremiah, Lamentations, Luke
When the world falls apart, God recognises the pain, the despair, and the anger, and gifts us with faith, with an assurance that God’s power of love will yet prevail, that God will accomplish the justice and the peace we long for.
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23 September, 2001
Even those whose actions are morally indefensible usually have attributes that challenge our own failings.
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16 September, 2001
Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.
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2 September, 2001
In the economy of God, there are no boundaries to the welcome we, all of us, receive by the unconditional gift of God’s grace.
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12 August, 2001
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faith, Faithfulness, Service, Worship
Scripture: Isaiah
Our liturgical expression of faith can nurture but not substitute for putting our faith into action.