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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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3 May, 2015
Because we really don’t have the whole truth, the Spirit will be heard only when we are together, listening to one another in love.
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26 April, 2015
We are not added to a particular church flock in order to be in the “right” group, but in order to learn, with Christ, to love others and lay down our lives for the world.
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19 April, 2015
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Baptism, Discipleship, Identity, Jesus, Resurrection
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Luke
We shall be ourselves when we are able to surrender ourselves to Christ and say ‘not my will, but yours’.
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12 April, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Abundance, Communion, Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Service, Virtues
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts
With every step we take towards God’s economy, we will become more powerful in our witness to God’s saving action and love for the world, and be filled ever more deeply with God’s good grace.
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22 March, 2015
The glory of God is most fully revealed in Jesus’s willingness to suffer death at the hands of the law.
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15 March, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Love, Reconciliation, Sacrifice, Suffering
We are prepared to sacrifice and kill in the name of our God, but God is willing to be sacrificed and be killed to save us, even when we were enemies.
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8 March, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
When we approach God’s way of life and the Sabbath not as punishment, but as gift, the experience becomes a chance to rest from work and from striving; and to allow space for God through contemplation and re-creation and play.
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1 March, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Jesus, judgement, Liberation, Love
Jesus calls us to turn away from pathways of judgement and condemnation and to follow him on the harder path of love and new life.
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22 February, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Discipleship, Evil, Faithfulness, Identity, Lent, Temptation, Virtues
Scripture: Mark
Lent is a time to walk knowingly into the wilderness, to face the Accuser and the wild beasts that emerge when we live out our identity as God’s children.
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15 February, 2015
Expecting God to always appear as an exalted triumphant victor blinds us to the reality of God’s glory which is made known in suffering, self-sacrificial love.
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8 February, 2015
Jesus urges us to take stock, to recognise the sicknesses which warp us and the demons which colonise our hearts and our minds, to renounce them so that we become free to minister to one another, and to proclaim the good news in our words and our lives.
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1 February, 2015
Jesus calls us to model a pattern of love and generous inclusion, and to avoid the demonic temptations of exclusion and pride.