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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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18 March, 2012
Judgement is not something God angrily inflicts on us, but simply the fulfilment of our own decisions.
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4 July, 2010
Pray for all people and let God do the judging. The world may be an evil place but you are God’s children and evil has been overcome.
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22 March, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Fullness of Life, Jesus, judgement, Liberation, Love, Salvation
God’s love for us is so great that God will do anything to give us a way out of the self-condemnation and self-destruction of continuing to live in conformity with the world’s ways.
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15 March, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: John
Jesus is angered by our trivialising of religion that inoculates us against the claims of a holy God, and calls us to clean out the crassness and commercialism and approach God on God’s terms.
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17 July, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Discernment, Grace, judgement, Mercy, Temptation
Scripture: Matthew
The Church will always contain more than its fair share of maliciousness, pettiness and nastiness, but the temptation to try to weed it out is a temptation to abandon the way of Christ and make things worse.
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29 August, 2004
God is deeply hurt and offended by our rejection of God in favour of things that are worthless, but Jesus has made possible both our forgiveness and our reconciliation.
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12 October, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Grace is the opposite of karma, that most ancient and persistent of human laws which proclaims that we get what we deserve. We do not get what we deserve, and thank Christ we don’t!
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12 September, 1999
Christian progressives must not despise those who feel insecure about change, and Christian conservatives must not despise those who take new ways.
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14 June, 1998
People judge one another by their conformity to certain expectations (which vary from group to group), but God is only interested in our willingness to come into the loving intimacy he offers to all.
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28 April, 1990
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Jesus, judgement, Mission, Salvation
Scripture: Matthew
Christ has identified himself with the poor and needy and we will be judged on how we respond to his need.