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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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10 April, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Forgiveness, Hospitality, Mission, Repentance
The decision to repent and accept Christ’s gift of forgiveness and life involves a life change which includes a new willingness to honour and serve Christ in the stranger.
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26 March, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Resurrection
When hopes have been extinguished and all is despair, God comes back.
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27 February, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Evil, Fullness of Life, Love, Spiritual Disciplines, Suffering, Temptation
Our struggles against evil, temptation and suffering are all framed by the security of God’s unshakable love and resolve to bring us safely to fullness of life.
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20 February, 2005
Being born of water and Spirit involves becoming as vulnerable and dependent on God as a newborn baby is on its parents.
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16 January, 2005
We are humble servants who are strengthened and empowered by the Spirit to enter into the redeeming work of God.
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6 January, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grief, Incarnation, Repentance, Suffering
The revelation of what God is on about in Christ will always upend our expectations and disrupt our lives.
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2 January, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Christmas, Grief, Incarnation, Suffering
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
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24 December, 2004
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas
A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by Ephraim the Syrian (306-373CE) taken from his second Christmas hymn.
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19 December, 2004
The coming Christ will continually confound our expectations, no matter how well informed or righteous they may be.
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7 November, 2004
Preacher: Andrew Woff
Topic: Commitment, Depression, Discipleship, Faith
Scripture: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Haggai
In the pain of discouragement, God keeps whispering to us: I am still with you, and the future has possibilities you have not dreamed of. So take courage, keep at it, hold on, don’t give up.
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10 October, 2004
When we do not live lives of gratitude, which would actually expand our sense of the world in which we live, God still does not rescind his gifts.
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14 September, 2004
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Crucifixion, Death, Evil, Faith, Love
Scripture: Colossians, Genesis, Luke
The Cross is the tree at which we come to know the fullness of good and evil, and as we choose to bear the consequences of good and evil, it becomes for us the tree of life.
