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Book: Matthew
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 February, 2023
Preacher: Chris Barnden
Topic: Discipleship, Reconciliation, Relationships, Virtues
Scripture: Colossians, Matthew
Being a disciple of Jesus is not about changing behaviour, it’s about changing life! It’s about being changed at our very core so that our inner motivations and attitudes are transformed.
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5 February, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Matthew
The world finds the message of Jesus almost incomprehensible because it seems too simplistic and unrealistic to be taken seriously.
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22 January, 2023
In the encounter with Jesus, we realise how radically different the world is and how completely we need to change.
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8 January, 2023
In baptism we surrender to God’s claim on us and enter a vowed relationship and life which will have its ups and its downs but in which God is forever faithful.
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6 January, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Gifts, Incarnation, Jesus, Spirituality
In Jesus, the truth about God’s ways and means is brought to light and we are called to so reflect that light that all might be drawn to it.
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1 January, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Liberation, Salvation, Suffering
In the Christ-child we encounter God responding to our suffering and leading us into the promised land of new life.
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24 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Identity, Incarnation, Reconciliation, Scandal
The particularity of Jesus’s identity scandalises our tribal sensibilities, but our attempts to erase such details in favour of a more “universal” truth inevitably fail to convey the good news of God with us.
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18 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Children, Family, Grace, Hospitality, Incarnation, Righteousness, Scandal, sex
Scripture: Matthew
God comes to us in unexpected ways, and the break with conventional religious respectability is even more earth-shattering than the break with conventional reproductive biology.
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11 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Bible, Conversion, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Grace, Hope, Jesus, Liberation
Jesus asks us to assess the legitimacy of any ministry by its transforming and liberating outcomes for the world and its peoples.
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4 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Depression, Hope, peace, Righteousness, Spirituality
Our sure hope of a new future brought to fulfilment in the coming Christ inspires and empowers us to live now in ways which resist the despair and selfishness of our age and anticipate the peace and righteousness of the coming age.
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27 November, 2022
Preacher: Scott Cowdell
Topic: Apocalypse, Discipleship, Liberation
The Advent break in of God in Christ is underway, bringing disruption of a status quo that our world needs to be free of, and liberation from the imprisonment of sin.
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6 January, 2022
The journey of a faithful life is about risk, about uncertainty, about careful, solitary reflection, and about community and conversation.
