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Topic: Resurrection
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 April, 2024
The forgiveness we experience in the risen Christ is dauntingly radical and we are called to share it.
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30 March, 2024
The good news of resurrection meets us in the darkest places of our lives and so is initially incomprehensible and disorienting.
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10 December, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Hope, Resurrection
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Isaiah, Mark, Psalms
Though we are to strive for righteousness and justice now, what we achieve now is a mere shadow of what will be fulfilled in the day of the Lord.
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18 May, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Jesus, Reconciliation, Resurrection, Salvation, Spirituality
Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.
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23 April, 2023
Jesus meets us in our doubts and discombobulation and gives us instead a community of joyful hope.
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16 April, 2023
A comic monologue on the story of Doubting Thomas, presented in the style of “Fred Dagg” as a fan’s tribute to the late great John Clarke.
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8 April, 2023
It is only in light of the resurrection that we can comprehend the sin and death that we are being liberated from.
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26 March, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Formation, Grace, Grief, Healing, Resurrection, Spirituality, Suffering
Grief and suffering bring us close to the heart of the suffering God and can open us to God’s transforming and resurrecting power.
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6 November, 2022
Preacher: Lina Toth (Andronoviene)
Topic: Church, Community, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Resurrection
Scripture: Luke
Jesus’s perplexing teaching on marriage and singleness calls us into a new network of relationships in which all are fully valued.
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24 April, 2022
Into the surreal fears and horrors of our murderous world comes the surreal delight of God’s resurrection laughter and the promise of life.
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16 April, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Baptism, Crucifixion, Discipleship, Evil, Grace, Jesus, Justice, Oppresion, Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus opens a path and calls us to follow into a life that is no longer dominated by the crucifying powers that destroy some of us and dehumanise others.
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13 February, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Crucifixion, Forgiveness, Fullness of Life, Grace, Jesus, Liberation, Mercy, Resurrection, Salvation
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Luke
All that matters about God, about sin and forgiveness, and about living with integrity and freedom, flows from the human encounter with the crucified and risen Jesus.
