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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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5 August, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Discernment, Jesus, Justice
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, John
If God seems unjust, we can and should question God’s integrity, for God welcomes our questions in order that the falsehoods might be stripped away and the truth revealed.
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22 July, 2012
Preacher: Ian Cook
Topic: Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Mercy, Mission, Service
Scripture: Ephesians
God calls us to welcome and care for “the strangers” the refugees and asylum seekers in our midst.
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15 July, 2012
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Abundance, Commitment, Fullness of Life, Generosity, Gratitude, Worship
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians
God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.
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8 July, 2012
Preacher: Samara Pitt
Topic: Discipleship, Failure, Faithfulness, Jesus, Vocation, Weakness
Scripture: Mark
Like the disciples, we stumble, but we too can pick ourselves up and re-orient ourselves to the transformed landscape that Jesus is slowly mapping out for us.
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1 July, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Liberation, Mercy, Reconciliation, Unity
Scripture: Mark
Jesus breaks down the barriers that divide us into pure and impure and removes the cause for the fear that marginalises people.
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24 June, 2012
On our own we are powerless to deal with many of the things that confront us, but when we recognise that and make ourselves available for whatever God wants to do, all kinds of scary things may actually be possible.
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10 June, 2012
Unquestioning allegiances to family and nation keep us bound to satanic systems, but Jesus binds the satan and breaks us free to be the new family of God.
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3 June, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hospitality, Love, Suffering, Trinity
The vision of the Trinity reveals some of the most important characteristics of God: radical mutual love, radically open hospitality, and transformative engagement with the suffering of the world.
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27 May, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Fear, Holy Spirit, Hope, Liberation, Resurrection, Salvation
The Holy Spirit is poured out on us so that the liberating presence of Christ may be with us all everywhere, freeing us from fear to live and speak boldly of the new life we have tasted.
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20 May, 2012
The Church is one body, sent into the world to live the life Jesus has begun, a life of love, reconciliation and mercy.
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13 May, 2012
Jesus invites us into a new relationship with God and with one another based on love and friendship instead of power and rivalry.
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6 May, 2012
God evaluates us only in terms of our growth to fruitfulness, expressed as Christ-like love, and such fruitfulness comes only from our interrelationship with Christ. God deals with us in whatever way will lead to further growth – sometimes that is gently, sometimes it is harshly, always it is for the same purpose.
