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Topic: Blessing
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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16 October, 2005
God longs to bless us in the land we have been given, but if we fail to live in faithfulness to the welcoming God, we will destroy ourselves and alienate ourselves from God’s blessing.
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31 July, 2005
God will wound us if necessary to bring us into the full blessing intended for us.
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9 June, 2002
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Blessing, Grace, peace, Reconciliation, Unity
If Abraham is our common father in faith, and like him we are justified and made whole by our faith in God’s mercy, then Christians, Jews and Muslims might find unity in sharing, humbly, in the wonder of that gift together.
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11 February, 2001
The beatitudes proclaim God’s preferential love for the poor and challenge us to rethink our own dependence on financial security.
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9 June, 1996
God calls the most ordinary people to be his followers and through following we become a blessing to others.
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11 February, 1995
God’s blessing is upon those who fully enter the pain of life and who hope beyond it.