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Topic: Violence
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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12 October, 2014
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
There are many stories in the Bible that can appear to portray God as involved in terrorist acts, but Jesus invites us to read them in new ways.
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14 September, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
What would happen if violence were met with bread, with blankets, with hospitals, with forgiveness of debts?
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29 June, 2014
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Law, Liberation, Reconciliation, Violence
God and religion misunderstood can be the cause of hostility, division and violence, but the God made known to us in Jesus is a God of grace who generously gives us life, freedom and reconciliation.
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2 March, 2014
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Exodus, Matthew
The stories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on various mountain tops reveals a process of God’s self-revelation as the one who loves us and suffers for us.
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19 January, 2014
Jesus is the “Lamb of God”, a sacrifice offered by God to appease and expose the sin of the world – the sacrificial monster of human blame-shifting and scapegoating.
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24 February, 2013
Jesus leads us in the way of redemptive freedom before the violence of the world.
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20 November, 2011
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Leadership, Salvation, Service, Suffering, Violence
Jesus calls us to love and care for the world’s victims, and to refuse to participate in making more of them (even from among the victimisers).
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20 February, 2011
The salvation of the world lies in Jesus’ model of non-retaliation.
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5 December, 2010
The promise that God will bring new life from a dead stump challenges our haste to chop down whatever seems to be in our way.
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25 April, 2010
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Revelation
Salvation belongs to Christ alone, but those who have fought and died for other forms of salvation are among those with whom Christ identifies himself; fellow victims of the atrocity from which Christ is saving us.
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15 November, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Discernment, Faithfulness, Hope, Violence
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Hebrews, Mark
A growing incidence of cataclysmic violence is not a sign of God’s activity, but it does call us to hold on to our hope and look for God’s action in small signs of life coming from death.
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8 July, 2007
We seek to live and practice non-violence as the only way to overcome injustice, persecution, tyranny and violence and build cultures of peace.
