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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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14 March, 2010
The story of the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son is a crucial part of the message of grace.
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28 February, 2010
Our allegiance to Christ and our citizenship of his Realm take priority over those to our local culture, but that doesn’t rule out a continuing love of our homeland and tribe.
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21 February, 2010
Demonic temptations do not usually look demonic, but are usually a subtle undermining of our sense of who we are that cause us to grasp for quick fixes.
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14 February, 2010
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Discipleship, Formation, Jesus
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Luke
In a moment of transfiguration we glimpse the weightiness of Jesus and his mission, and we are ourselves transfigured, becoming people of greater substance.
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31 January, 2010
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Generosity, Humility, Love, Prophesy
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Jeremiah, Luke
God speaks prophetically through the Church and through some individuals, and the prophetic task is inseparable from humility, constructiveness, graciousness, love, patience and generosity.
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24 January, 2010
The reading of scripture is one of the most important places where God has promised to become present and known to us.
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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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26 April, 2009
Faith in the risen Christ is always a physical thing, experienced and expressed in physical ways.
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6 April, 2008
Christ is so present we loose the ability to see him. We need to worship to recover our sight.
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1 November, 2007
Living the beatitudes is far to lightly dismissed as being “only for saints”, but Christ calls us all to live as saints.
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28 October, 2007
We are bringing upon ourselves a global catastrophe, but the prophet Joel assures us that ultimately God will save his people.
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16 September, 2007
One of the most controversial aspects of Jesus’ message was that it moved all the fences. Jesus redrew the boundaries of the Kingdom of God to include very definitely those who previously had been excluded. He blew away the social and geographical limitations imposed by the pious Pharisees & other religious leaders. According to Jesus, God’s kingdom knew nothing of the political, social or religious boundaries placed on it by these groups.