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Topic: Temptation
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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9 March, 2025
Preacher: Brett Mitchell
Topic: Faithfulness, Jesus, Sin, Spiritual Warfare, Temptation
Temptation is something we all have to deal with, and Jesus shows the way in dealing with it.
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17 November, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Conflict, Culture, Depression, Empire, Faithfulness, Oppresion, Politics, Temptation, Vocation, War
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark
Perhaps amidst the increasingly depressing state of the world, Jesus is calling us to learn the path of faithfulness from those who never win.
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26 February, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Discipleship, Evil, Spiritual Warfare, Temptation
Whether or not you can accept the idea of a personal devil, there are forces of evil in the world that are bigger and more powerful than our own inner flaws, but conscious and united, we are stronger still.
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6 March, 2022
Preacher: SJ Beasy
Topic: Evil, Faithfulness, Lent, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Warfare, Temptation
Scripture: Luke
The temptations faced by Jesus reveal common patterns in the demonic temptations that we face in our own lives.
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10 March, 2019
Lent calls us to faithfulness to God and we need to assess the direction of our journey, our call to ministry and also to meet our own demons.
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18 February, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Discipleship, Evil, Faithfulness, Lent, Temptation
Scripture: Mark
Jesus resisted the temptation to force his will on the world, and he pioneered a pathway for us to similarly refuse the exploitation of power.
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5 November, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Humility, Jesus, judgement, Reconciliation, Temptation, Virtues
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus’s quest for reconciliation is far wider and more discomfortingly radical than our tendency to jump on the bandwagon of popular justice causes.
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15 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Authority, Faith, Fear, Forgiveness, Grace, judgement, Law, Temptation
Scripture: Exodus
God invites us to live joyously, boldly and freely in the midst of mystery, but we are frequently tempted to grasp for something more tangible and certain.
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5 March, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Discipleship, Humility, Lent, Temptation
Lent is a recurring reminder of the fragility of our discipleship in the face of tempting shortcuts and instant gratifications.
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25 September, 2016
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grace, Jesus, Temptation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Jeremiah, Luke
Jesus offers us vision of the future which sharply differs from that offered by modern economics, and we need to intentionally nourish that vision.
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14 February, 2016
Whether we think of the devil as a personal being or as a metaphor, our call to put our trust in Jesus to strengthen our resistance to the temptation of expedient short-cuts is the same.
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22 February, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Discipleship, Evil, Faithfulness, Identity, Lent, Temptation, Virtues
Scripture: Mark
Lent is a time to walk knowingly into the wilderness, to face the Accuser and the wild beasts that emerge when we live out our identity as God’s children.
