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Book: Luke
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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21 August, 2016
True Christianity is not transactional but transformational. It is not a series of prescribed actions intended to please God, but the formation of a culture of grace and other-centred love.
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14 August, 2016
The people who blame Jesus for increasing violence may be right. He has kicked out the foundations of our peace-keeping strategies, and now violent chaos will grow unless we learn the ways of love and mercy.
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7 August, 2016
There are numerous competing claims about what a faithful Christian life looks like, and sometimes the truth about following Jesus may be the least palatable of them all.
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6 August, 2016
The Transfiguration is not about the remoteness of God, but about a promise that through the exodus of Jesus’ death and resurrection, we might with him shine, transfigured, with the blazing glory of God.
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24 July, 2016
If we delight in shaming and punishing wrongdoers, we will not recognise the scandalous love and mercy revealed in Jesus, but instead find ourselves being harshly judged by an outraged condemning god who we have created in our own image.
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17 July, 2016
The ways of God’s Kingdom are different to the ways of this world. One thing is needed, prioritising God’s ways, and when we get that right, all the other things follow.
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10 July, 2016
Discerning the will of God is a skill that needs work if you want to develop it, whether as a community together or as individuals.
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3 July, 2016
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Evil, Faithfulness, Grace, Jesus, Mission
Scripture: Luke
Election week sheds new light on how we can participate with Jesus in bringing satanic principalities and powers crashing down.
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12 June, 2016
When we offer hospitality to, and accept hospitality from, anyone who comes – every sinner, wretch, reprobate, and wicked woman – we will encounter Christ and experience forgiveness.
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5 June, 2016
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Galatians, Luke
Sometimes God has to kill off our hopes and destroy our faith structures in order to create space for new life and truth to arise among us.
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29 May, 2016
The gospel of love and grace revealed by Jesus is always at risk of being distorted into a false gospel of ‘holy’ hostility.
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21 February, 2016
Jesus is heart-broken when we refuse his call to gather with him in a place of powerlessness, vulnerable to the hostility of a power-hungry world.
