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Book: Matthew
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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26 March, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Resurrection
When hopes have been extinguished and all is despair, God comes back.
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6 January, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grief, Incarnation, Repentance, Suffering
The revelation of what God is on about in Christ will always upend our expectations and disrupt our lives.
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19 December, 2004
The coming Christ will continually confound our expectations, no matter how well informed or righteous they may be.
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6 January, 2004
It is always a shock to realise just who Jesus is and what he’s on about.
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24 November, 2002
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
The hope that empowers us to maintain our counter-cultural obedience to Christ, is that the One who will eventually rule over all is the One who offers himself as a suffering servant of all.
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17 November, 2002
The Coming Christ will reward and celebrate with those he finds having a go and making the most of all they have been given, not those who fearfully play it safe.
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3 November, 2002
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Scripture: Matthew
Authority in the Christian community derives not from worldly status or popularity contests, but from a humble willingness to imitate Christ in his devotion to God and his service of others.
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20 October, 2002
Preacher: Andrew Woff
Topic: Authority, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Fear, Grace
Scripture: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Matthew
Our faith is about grace – that God comes to meet us in the truth of who we are. God is far less threatened by the darkness in our lives than we are!
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29 September, 2002
Preacher: Mark Brett
Topic: Authority, Leadership, Power, Weakness
Scripture: Exodus, Matthew, Philippians
At the deepest level of our need, we are called to rest in the love and righteousness of God, which can never be forced.
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8 September, 2002
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: peace, Politics, Reconciliation, Ritual, Worship
There is no such thing as a ritual-free space, and performed well or performed badly, rituals change things, change people’s lives.
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1 September, 2002
Many of us want the faith story to go according to our script, but the call of Jesus crashes through our dominant religious and cultural understandings and aspirations.
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18 August, 2002
Jesus is opening our eyes and widening our focus to allow God’s ‘unbiased grace’ to break through.