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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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25 May, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Hospitality, Love, Resurrection
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts, John
The resurrection has broken open many old certainties, and our ethics must now be grounded in the new things God is doing, characterised by radically inclusive love, rather than in the old restrictions.
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18 May, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Jesus, Mission, Service, Spirituality
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts, John
God has promised that if we stay connected to him, then he will give us the energy and the love to go out from our comfort-zones into the alien territory of those who need God’s love most of all.
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11 May, 2003
The message that salvation is exclusively in the hands of the risen Christ may be unfashionable, but it is the only message of salvation we have to offer.
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4 May, 2003
The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
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27 April, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Evil, Forgiveness, Grace, Healing, Jesus, Resurrection, Suffering
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John
As the victim of the ultimate in human evil, the risen Christ is the One who can offer the complete forgiveness, to us, and through us to the rest of the world.
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6 April, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Culture, Discernment, Faithfulness, Grace, Hope, Incarnation, Suffering, Weakness
Scripture: John
God invites us to be immersed in another possible reality, to look at the world with the dark and contrary light that comes from the cross of Jesus.
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30 March, 2003
Christ crucified is both a sign of the ultimate consequence of evil, and of the ultimate victory of Christ over evil through the power of suffering love.
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16 March, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Grace, Lent
What God has promised, God will make good on, no matter what the apparent obstacles, and our job is simply to set about cooperating with the promise-maker rather than with the obstacles.
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9 March, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Conversion, Discipleship, Grief, Healing, Lent, Suffering
Scripture: Mark
Lent can be a dark night filled with tears and mourning and loss, but it is worth it, for God’s joy comes in the morning.
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2 March, 2003
The Transfiguration points us back to Jesus’ baptism and forward to his resurrection, and reiterates that the only way from one to the other is the way of the cross.
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23 February, 2003
God has bound pastors and people together in Christ, that we might share in the ultimate victory of Christ as all God’s promises are fulfilled.
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22 February, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Discipleship, Prayer, Resurrection, Vocation
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Luke
By preparing ourselves to die with Christ, we are raised and transfigured, new people with a new vocation.