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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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7 December, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Baptism, Fullness of Life, Hope, Salvation
Scripture: Luke, Malachi, Philippians
In baptism, we have passed from the preoccupations of the present to the a life shaped by God’s future, and though the completion of that transformation may be painful, it is nevertheless the fulfilling of our deepest longings.
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30 November, 2003
Advent is a time of deep paradox, a season that speaks to the reality of our world and calls us to be awake.
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4 May, 2003
The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
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22 February, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Discipleship, Prayer, Resurrection, Vocation
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Luke
By preparing ourselves to die with Christ, we are raised and transfigured, new people with a new vocation.
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22 December, 2002
God is always acting, but often in surprising and paradoxical ways. The ways of God often reverse human expectations.
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14 April, 2002
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Conversion, Formation, Liberation, Resurrection, Worship
Scripture: Luke
The resurrection of Jesus is about the in-breaking of something which is so new, so different, so unheard of, that it changes things so entirely that we will never again become captive to all that is predictable, or ‘necessary,’ or ‘fated’.
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7 October, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Anger, Apocalypse, Depression, Faith, Love, Salvation, Suffering
Scripture: Jeremiah, Lamentations, Luke
When the world falls apart, God recognises the pain, the despair, and the anger, and gifts us with faith, with an assurance that God’s power of love will yet prevail, that God will accomplish the justice and the peace we long for.
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23 September, 2001
Even those whose actions are morally indefensible usually have attributes that challenge our own failings.
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16 September, 2001
Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.
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2 September, 2001
In the economy of God, there are no boundaries to the welcome we, all of us, receive by the unconditional gift of God’s grace.
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5 August, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Conversion, Formation, Spirituality, Wisdom
Scripture: Colossians, Luke
God calls us to detach, to empty ourselves of desire, to die with Christ, so that we may truly welcome Christ when he returns to his appointed home in our hearts and souls.
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15 July, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Abuse, Grace, Mission, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, Spirituality
God has ordained that the work of God should flow from a deep and abiding being with God, from a baptism in the love which holds all things together in Christ.