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Sermons
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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30 January, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Formation, Hospitality, Love, Spiritual Disciplines
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Luke
The only measure of our progress in Christian faith is our love for others, including those we are least inclined to love.
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23 January, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 Corinthians
In God’s vision for humanity, every person and the role they play is valued and cared for. When society fails to live up to this, the Church is called to go against the flow and courageously champion and model it.
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16 January, 2022
God’s love is passionate, attentive, tender and ardent. Jesus the bridegroom comes and woos God’s people in every generation.
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9 January, 2022
The promise of baptism with fire may surprisingly lead us to a loving suffering messiah.
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6 January, 2022
The journey of a faithful life is about risk, about uncertainty, about careful, solitary reflection, and about community and conversation.
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2 January, 2022
A sermon on John 1: 1-18 by Audrey Kateena
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26 December, 2021
We can’t take it for granted that Jesus will be where we want to go, for his ways often go contrary to ours and our business is to follow him.
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24 December, 2021
Preacher: Audrey Kateena
Topic: Christmas, Incarnation, Jesus
A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by Ephraim the Syrian (306-373CE) taken from his second Christmas hymn.
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19 December, 2021
The visitation story is a powerful introduction to the gospel of God’s lavish and overwhelming love for us, and to God’s hospitality as we see it in Jesus.
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12 December, 2021
The joyous message of Christmas demands a response from us all year round.
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5 December, 2021
The mercy of God – like the dawn that breaks a long darkness, the song that breaks a long silence – gives light, life and hope to those shadowed by death.
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28 November, 2021
Christ calls us to be alert for his salvific coming in the midst of the terrors of the here and now, not just in the past and future.
