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Topic: Generosity
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 August, 2020
The things we have we are to hold with open hands, looking with a generous eye for the oppotunities to share our resources in ways that make a difference.
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6 December, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Ethics, Generosity, Hospitality, Love, Repentance
Scripture: Luke, Malachi, Philippians
The refining fire made known in Jesus is not targeting “morality” issues, but our hatreds, hostilities and inhospitableness.
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8 November, 2015
Every coin you are holding already belongs to God: every bitterness, every hurt, every disappointment. Do not hold a single one back.
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27 September, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Humility, Jesus, Purity, Virtues
Scripture: Mark
Jesus’s invitation is radically open and inclusive, and we need to guard carefully against our own culturally conditioned instincts to start narrowing and policing it.
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26 July, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Economics, Generosity, Grace, Jesus
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, John
Jesus rejects the opportunity to fulfil our hopes and expectations in order that he might give us more than we thought possible.
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12 April, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Abundance, Communion, Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Service, Virtues
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts
With every step we take towards God’s economy, we will become more powerful in our witness to God’s saving action and love for the world, and be filled ever more deeply with God’s good grace.
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16 November, 2014
You cannot serve two masters; for a slave will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.
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13 July, 2014
God does not judge people’s capacity to respond and focus love and care only on the productive, but gives gifts with wanton freedom and extravagance and calls us to do the same.
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17 March, 2013
Extravagant expressions of love are a sign of the culture of God, and Jesus models generous giving and receiving of them, regardless of the scandal they cause.
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17 February, 2013
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Evil, Generosity, Hospitality, Salvation, Temptation
God saves us by changing our hearts, but one of the great temptations for the church is to try to turn that back into a system of exclusion and control.
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27 January, 2013
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Generosity, Hospitality, Jesus
Scripture: 1 Corinthians
Although the Church and our nation might be stronger if they were more inclusive, the real call to inclusion is simply part of the call to faithfully reflect Christ.
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16 December, 2012
John calls us beyond insurance policy religion, but Jesus calls us still further into participation in God’s radical generosity to all the world.
