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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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16 August, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Church, Identity, Relationships, Suffering, Weakness
It is in our woundedness, this woundedness we try to avoid and would rather not acknowledge, that we find our identity as the body of Christ, our identity as the church.
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4 August, 2013
God has created us for relationships, and any values or priorities that are willing to sacrifice relationship for something else will cripple us.
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26 May, 2013
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Creation, Jesus, Relationships, Trinity
When God is understood through the revelation of Jesus and his pattern of relating, then we discover ourselves invited into generous and gracious solidarity with all creation.
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9 September, 2007
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hospitality, Liberation, Love, Relationships, Reputation
The love of Christ draws us into a radically deeper set of love relationships, but don’t expect them to be understood by those outside the faith.
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2 November, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Ethics, Jesus, Love, Relationships, Ritual
Religious ritual and ethical living are both bound up together in the journey of following Jesus into the Realm of God.
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5 October, 2003
Preacher: Craig Thompson
Topic: Forgiveness, Grace, Love, Marriage, Relationships, sex
Scripture: Mark
Jesus is uncompromising in his teaching about what we do with our bodies and the significance of our relationships, but also in promising a new beginning when we find ourselves lost in this way.
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10 June, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Communion, Identity, Relationships, Trinity
The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.
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3 September, 2000
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Fullness of Life, Relationships, sex, Worship
Scripture: Song of Songs
The sexy bits of the Bible point to an understanding of the sacramental nature of sexual intimacy.
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27 September, 1998
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Fullness of Life, Greed, Money, Relationships, Spirituality
Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy
Real life is found in a trusting relationship with God, but the greatest obstacle to that is a culture of trusting money and we will only be able to avoid that if we fight it together.
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19 July, 1998
Our experience of being reconciled to God through Christ provides the inspiration and the model for the work of reconciliation across the various divides within our world.
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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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9 November, 1997
The God who stopped at nothing to stand in solidarity with us, looks for those who will give everything to work in solidarity with God.
