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Topic: Death
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, 2016
Preacher: Roslyn Wright
Topic: Death, Grief, Resurrection
The resurrection awaits us. It awaits us now as we live into our experience of the love of God, growing in us and through us. The resurrection awaits us too, that moment when life as we know it is no more, and we enter fully into the life and love of God.
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15 November, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Conversion, Death, Forgiveness, Grace, Jesus, Reconciliation
Only when the world models itself on the self-sacrificial love and mercy we have seen in Jesus will it be saved from the cycles of apocalyptic violence and chaos.
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9 June, 2013
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Death, Resurrection, Spirituality, Suffering
Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Luke
God meets us in the midst of our worst nightmares, calling life out of death, but seldom in the ways we might most wish for.
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6 June, 2010
When drought and death threaten to destroy us, God will bring us through the barren times and raise us back to life, for doing so is the defining sign of God’s presence.
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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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21 June, 2008
In Baptism, Christ has united us with himself in his death to sin and his resurrection to radically new life.
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29 April, 2007
Jesus is the model for rightly honouring the victims by exposing and resisting the systems that sacrificed them.
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14 September, 2004
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Crucifixion, Death, Evil, Faith, Love
Scripture: Colossians, Genesis, Luke
The Cross is the tree at which we come to know the fullness of good and evil, and as we choose to bear the consequences of good and evil, it becomes for us the tree of life.
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21 March, 1999
No matter how dead something is, if the Spirit of God enters, there will be new life.
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23 March, 1997
Many of the stories of Jesus’ life, such as the entry into Jerusalem, can only be properly understood in light of the death and resurrection of Jesus, and so the church has a vital role in the revelation of the gospel.
