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Topic: Holy Spirit
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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8 January, 2017
Preacher: Margie Dahl
Topic: Baptism, Conversion, Discipleship, Holy Spirit, Jesus
Scripture: Matthew
Baptism is a magnificent gift, far surpassing anything we could imagine or devise, for ultimately it is God’s chosen means of self giving to us.
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22 May, 2016
The self-giving love of the Trinity, contrasted with the experience of a toxic love triangle, calls us to a new non-possessive love that always seeks the glory and delight of the other.
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15 May, 2016
God’s Holy Spirit gathers us into one body where our differences are not erased or downplayed, but boldly offered in love and service of one another.
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7 June, 2015
Satan casts out satan all the time in our divisive attempts to protect ourselves by demonising and expelling others.
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16 March, 2014
Jesus calls us to entrust ourselves into the care of the Spirit who will carry us into the unknown future of God.
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27 May, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Fear, Holy Spirit, Hope, Liberation, Resurrection, Salvation
The Holy Spirit is poured out on us so that the liberating presence of Christ may be with us all everywhere, freeing us from fear to live and speak boldly of the new life we have tasted.
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8 January, 2012
With Jesus we are baptised into a Spirit-inspired costly life of living the new culture of scandalous reconciliation.
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12 June, 2011
The Spirit is there for us where ever we gather in the one place for that one purpose.
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29 May, 2011
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Holy Spirit, Hospitality, Weakness
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Acts, John
Jesus offers himself to the world from a vulnerable place on the margins, and he calls us to trust the Holy Spirit and do likewise.
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20 June, 2010
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Demons, Holy Spirit, Liberation, Spiritual Warfare
Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Luke
Christ calls us together into a spirit-filled body in the face of demonic forces that would seek to drive us apart and trick us into the fatal error of going it alone.
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23 May, 2010
God invites us to say “yes” to the Spirit, to be open to seeing ourselves beyond the constraints others place on us and to be open to forming new community with God and with God’s world.
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9 May, 2010
Jesus sends the Holy Spirit as a Defence Counsel to defend us against the demonic accusations that trouble and disempower us.
