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Topic: Hope
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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1 October, 2023
There is life and nourishment hidden in the depths, and through Jesus the rock it is accessible to us.
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23 July, 2023
The stairway to heaven is revealed in the darkest places and situations of our lives, in the difficult and dangerous places, in the situations where we least expected it.
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21 May, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, Spirituality
When God closes one chapter before opening another, the time in between is a time for prayer and entering into the life of God.
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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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1 January, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Liberation, Salvation, Suffering
In the Christ-child we encounter God responding to our suffering and leading us into the promised land of new life.
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11 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Bible, Conversion, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Grace, Hope, Jesus, Liberation
Jesus asks us to assess the legitimacy of any ministry by its transforming and liberating outcomes for the world and its peoples.
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4 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Depression, Hope, peace, Righteousness, Spirituality
Our sure hope of a new future brought to fulfilment in the coming Christ inspires and empowers us to live now in ways which resist the despair and selfishness of our age and anticipate the peace and righteousness of the coming age.
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13 November, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Conflict, Discipleship, Hope, Love, Prophesy, Violence
The global social breakdown of which Jesus speaks is caused by the failure of our old oppressive ways of maintaining peace, but God has promised us a better way on the other side.
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16 October, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Hope
Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Jeremiah, Luke
God has promised a time of resurrection and renewal, and has given us guidance for living faithfully in the meantime.
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14 August, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Faithfulness, Hope, judgement, Justice, Suffering
Adversity, violence, and suffering can come as a consequence of not just sin, but of radical love, but with love it can strengthen and sharpen us for fullness of life.
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7 August, 2022
Imagination, fed by Jesus, enables us to grow and stretch, to make a way from what is to what could be, for the sake of worlds of hope God is already excited about.
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12 June, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Doubt, Faith, Hope, Trinity, Wisdom
We live in uncertain times, unsure of the future shape of the church, but Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to us, not to give us certainty, but to guide and sustain us in the uncertainty.
