Book: Jeremiah
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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2 January, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Christmas, Grief, Incarnation, Suffering
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
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12 September, 2004
Preacher: Marita Munro
Topic: Generosity, Jesus, Reconciliation, Salvation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Jeremiah, Luke, Psalms
Jesus acted out the parables that he was telling in his encounters with people, expressing the nature of God who seeks after us and rejoices in our being found and restored. God invites us to be people like that.
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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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7 October, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Anger, Apocalypse, Depression, Faith, Love, Salvation, Suffering
Scripture: Jeremiah, Lamentations, Luke
When the world falls apart, God recognises the pain, the despair, and the anger, and gifts us with faith, with an assurance that God’s power of love will yet prevail, that God will accomplish the justice and the peace we long for.
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16 September, 2001
Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.

