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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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18 January, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 Corinthians
Jesus leads us into a joyous and healthy way of living that avoids both constricting legalism and destructive libertarianism.
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6 January, 2015
Preacher: Sam Goodes
Topic: Discipleship, Doubt, Faithfulness, Hope
The feeling of distance and separation from God – which we all feel – is perception not reality… it is the fruit of our fear and our holding-back.
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4 January, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Fullness of Life, Humility, Incarnation, Jesus, Reconciliation
God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.
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28 December, 2014
To grow up well, children need to be anchored to a broad community with shared values, which nevertheless allows for individual differences.
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24 December, 2014
We are welcoming a baby born into occupied territories to a fiercely holy young woman, and we are recognising in that baby the hope of liberation.
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21 December, 2014
Joseph models a courageous willingness to be stripped of his sense of entitlement that he might become all God wanted him to be.
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14 December, 2014
Preparing ourselves for the coming Lord is not a matter of rigorous rule keeping, but rules can help us learn the appropriate new way of being.
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7 December, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Apocalypse, Hope, Salvation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Isaiah, Mark, Psalms
Advent is preparing us for the coming of the Lord, that already and not-yet event for which people have lived and worked and prayed for millennia.
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30 November, 2014
Jesus calls us to courageously follow him through a world of apparently apocalyptic violence towards the advent of hope and peace.
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23 November, 2014
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Mercy, Reconciliation, Service, Violence
Scripture: Matthew
In our desire to see mercy and compassion expressed for the needy, we must beware of falling into desiring the exact opposite for those who have not shown mercy and compassion.
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16 November, 2014
You cannot serve two masters; for a slave will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.
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9 November, 2014
Our readiness to welcome and celebrate Christ is integral to his becoming present and active among us.
