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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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17 January, 2016
It is as members of the body that you are given the gifts that are needed for this body to serve in this time and this place.
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6 January, 2016
In Christ, God is made manifest to the world as King, Light and Lover.
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3 January, 2016
Jesus came into the world to fill us with new life, and encourage us, and show us how to grow, so if we remain focussed on the light, letting it shine into our areas of darkness, then darkness will never have the last word.
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27 December, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Conversion, Faithfulness, Grace, Jesus, Salvation
Scripture: Colossians, Luke
We grow into the likeness of Christ as we model ourselves on him, and he is a model of growth rather than a model of static perfection.
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24 December, 2015
God becomes human and brings into himself (reconciles to himself) in Jesus the full range of human emotional experience.
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20 December, 2015
Understanding Mary as a god-bearer opens up new possibilities, for we can all be god-bearers, carrying God’s love and longing for justice into every place that we go.
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13 December, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Jesus, Reconciliation, Relationships, Repentance
Scripture: Luke, Philippians, Zephaniah
In an us-and-them world, people hope to find a way to get God on their side, but Jesus confounds our expectations of God siding against others.
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6 December, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Ethics, Generosity, Hospitality, Love, Repentance
Scripture: Luke, Malachi, Philippians
The refining fire made known in Jesus is not targeting “morality” issues, but our hatreds, hostilities and inhospitableness.
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29 November, 2015
In the fact of the climate apocalypse, we hold on to our hope: hoping and working for the radical, impossible change that is necessary.
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22 November, 2015
In a world increasingly divided between violent powers, Jesus leads a kingdom that is a radical peaceful challenge to both of them.
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15 November, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Conversion, Death, Forgiveness, Grace, Jesus, Reconciliation
Only when the world models itself on the self-sacrificial love and mercy we have seen in Jesus will it be saved from the cycles of apocalyptic violence and chaos.
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8 November, 2015
Every coin you are holding already belongs to God: every bitterness, every hurt, every disappointment. Do not hold a single one back.
