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Topic: Incarnation
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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24 December, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Hospitality, Humility, Incarnation, Jesus
Scripture: Luke
The nativity story proclaims the basic themes of the gospel message; God enters into our suffering world as a victim of our violence, and is rejected by most but recognised by the nobodies.
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29 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grace, Incarnation, Jesus, judgement, Law, Love
Scripture: Matthew
Today, as in Jesus’s day, two fundamentally different visions of God and God’s expectations compete. Jesus calls us to side with the one that centres on love rather than the one that centres on concerns for holiness.
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24 December, 2016
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Incarnation, Jesus, peace, Reconciliation
Jesus is the Word – what God has to say – who reveals true humanity and illuminates our path to becoming fully and truly human.
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18 December, 2016
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Incarnation, Jesus
Scripture: Matthew
In Joseph we see an impressive example of someone with the integrity and courage to embrace God’s new directions despite considerable personal cost.
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24 December, 2015
God becomes human and brings into himself (reconciles to himself) in Jesus the full range of human emotional experience.
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20 December, 2015
Understanding Mary as a god-bearer opens up new possibilities, for we can all be god-bearers, carrying God’s love and longing for justice into every place that we go.
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18 October, 2015
Most suffering is random and unfair, but Jesus has joined us in it to lead us into new life.
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4 January, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Fullness of Life, Humility, Incarnation, Jesus, Reconciliation
God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.
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24 December, 2014
We are welcoming a baby born into occupied territories to a fiercely holy young woman, and we are recognising in that baby the hope of liberation.
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5 January, 2014
The experience of the living Christ keeps pushing us to think even bigger in our attempts to explain him.
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24 December, 2013
The Christ child is the light who enlightens the world and as his love takes root in our hearts and lives, it causes us to light up the darkness.
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23 December, 2012
Like Mary, we are called to participate in God’s recreation and blessing of the world, and when we comprehend that call, we will, like Mary, explode with joy.
