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Topic: Justice
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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2 May, 2021
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John
If we want to understand how Jesus saves us and what Jesus saves us from, we are going to have to abandon the most widely taught explanation.
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11 April, 2021
Preacher: Guilherme Almeida
Topic: Generosity, Justice, Mission, Resurrection, Service, Stewardship
Jesus calls us to a Resurrection Imagination, praying for courage and discernment on how to use your resources until the dream of a world where there are no poor among us is fulfilled.
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28 February, 2021
As we head with Jesus towards the cross, carrying the pain and injustice of the world, God does not hide his face from us but hears our cries for justice.
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15 November, 2020
In the face of global suffering, we continue to give praise for the power that is working on the side of love, and we unite our power with God’s power until we see God’s will being done.
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25 October, 2020
Preacher: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Jesus shows us that even though there might be many things that don’t seem right to us, we would be wise to let many of them go and only fight the battles that really matter.
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14 September, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
What would happen if violence were met with bread, with blankets, with hospitals, with forgiveness of debts?
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24 August, 2014
Whether we have been the oppressor or the oppressed or both, we all have a role in God’s work against violence and exploitation; we can all participate in God’s passion for justice.
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9 March, 2014
Once we recognise that all women, like all men, are made in the image of God, we catch a glimpse of God’s original vision for us, for the day when all people experience God’s radical and abundant love, and the pouring out of justice demanded by that love.
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5 August, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Discernment, Jesus, Justice
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, John
If God seems unjust, we can and should question God’s integrity, for God welcomes our questions in order that the falsehoods might be stripped away and the truth revealed.
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18 July, 2010
God’s anger over injustice and hypocrisy is the hot passionate anger of a lover betrayed and aggrieved, an anger which craves reconciliation and rekindled love, not punishment.
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17 May, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Justice, Love, peace, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John
The knowledge that we are loved by God and the tenacious sharing of that love break the power of the world’s systems to lock us in to destructive cycles overwork, over consumption, and compliance with injustice and war.
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8 July, 2007
We seek to live and practice non-violence as the only way to overcome injustice, persecution, tyranny and violence and build cultures of peace.
