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Topic: Incarnation
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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20 December, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Hospitality, Incarnation, Jesus, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Luke
God’s coming does not reinforce our social norms and hierarchies, but breaches them to reconcile and re-dignify those who the social order has sacrificed and cast aside.
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7 June, 2020
Preacher: Paul Fiddes
Topic: Communion, Holy Spirit, Incarnation, Mission, Trinity
Scripture: Romans
The doctrine of the Trinity is not a mathematical puzzle, but an invitation to an experience of relationships, sharing in the life and mission of God.
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11 April, 2020
Preacher: Joel Sierra
Topic: Grace, Hope, Incarnation, Resurrection, Salvation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Matthew
As Woody Allen said, 90% of success is just showing up, and in the resurrection, Jesus really shows up!
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5 January, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Christmas, Fear, Grief, Hope, Incarnation, Suffering
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
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24 December, 2019
The Christmas stories assure us that Jesus is the one who brings light into our darkness.
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13 October, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Hope, Incarnation, Jesus, Politics
Scripture: Jeremiah
When God calls us to invest in the places we live, it is a call to active agents of positive change, not compliant patriots.
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16 June, 2019
The God revealed to us in Jesus and experienced through the Holy Spirit is so dynamic and multi-facetted that we may find it hard to believe that we are always dealing with the one God.
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7 April, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Communion, Incarnation, Love, peace, Reconciliation, Worship
Jesus shows us that being overly cautious about the boundaries of personal space and touch can, especially in worship, risk excluding, stigmatising and humiliating people.
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24 December, 2018
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Scripture: Luke
It is not from the halls of power but from humble places that the love which offers wholeness and healing and peace erupts into life.
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23 December, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Conversion, Culture, Hope, Incarnation, Salvation
Scripture: Luke
The baby whose coming is awaited will turn the world upside down (not just the lives of its parents!), and our counter-cultural observance of Advent is a necessary preparation of ourselves for that reality.
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2 September, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Fullness of Life, Gifts, Gratitude, Incarnation, Love, sex
Scripture: James, Mark, Song of Songs
Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.
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6 January, 2018
The light of Christ reaches the world through those who will bear the wounds of love.
