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Topic: Hope
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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12 December, 2010
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Formation, Fullness of Life, Hope
When fidelity to Christ’s call is failing to bear the expected fruit, but is bearing good fruit, however humble, the call may be to persevere in hope.
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5 December, 2010
The promise that God will bring new life from a dead stump challenges our haste to chop down whatever seems to be in our way.
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4 April, 2010
Preacher: Andrew Woff
Topic: Fear, Hope, Resurrection
A sermon for the Great Paschal Vigil preached by the Revd Andrew Woff
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21 March, 2010
The life Christ call us to is not found by seeking to recover the past or escape from the past, but by opening ourselves to the new things God will do.
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20 December, 2009
God comes to us, in seemingly insignificant places and borne by easily overlooked people.
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15 November, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Discernment, Faithfulness, Hope, Violence
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Hebrews, Mark
A growing incidence of cataclysmic violence is not a sign of God’s activity, but it does call us to hold on to our hope and look for God’s action in small signs of life coming from death.
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31 May, 2009
The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.
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8 March, 2009
Hope is the melody of the future – Faith dances to it today
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15 February, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Psalms
The unfailing love of God is with us, even in the tragedy, confusion, and anguished questions and doubts.
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8 February, 2009
God is with us to comfort and revive us in the face of horror, but also to challenge us to turn things around.
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1 February, 2009
Jesus meets us with not just words of hope, but with actions of authority and integrity.
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24 December, 2008
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Let us keep the festival by standing confidently, and affirming our faith in the God who takes flesh among us, today!