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Book: Song of Songs
At Open Icon Baptist Church, we value great preaching — 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. Click here to meet the inspirational preachers depicted in the gallery above, none of whom have preached for us!
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1 September, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Formation, Law, Purity, sex
Scripture: James, Mark, Psalms, Song of Songs
God’s love for us is so all-consuming that he accepts us as soon as we accept him and is happy for our behaviours to be sorted out in the transforming experience of love.
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2 September, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Fullness of Life, Gifts, Gratitude, Incarnation, Love, sex
Scripture: James, Mark, Song of Songs
Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.
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3 September, 2000
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Fullness of Life, Relationships, sex, Worship
Scripture: Song of Songs
The sexy bits of the Bible point to an understanding of the sacramental nature of sexual intimacy.
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31 August, 1997
The New Testament teachings on the priority of the spirit of the law over the traditional interpretations of it actually give us a biblical basis on which to reevaluate our understandings of sexual purity.
