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Topic: Holy Spirit
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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31 May, 2009
The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.
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13 May, 2007
Jesus gives us a peace that is not secured at the expense of victims, and he sends a Defence Counsel to lead the defence of the world’s victims.
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30 May, 2004
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Holy Spirit, Liberation, Resurrection
The message of Pentecost is the message of Pascha – Christ is risen and, in him, we are liberated from our captivity to the spirits of death, fear, despair, and division, and freed to dance to the Holy Spirit’s tune.
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8 June, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Depression, Fullness of Life, Holy Spirit, Salvation
The day of Pentecost is the day when the Spirit comes to interrupt and call into question the inevitability of our despair.
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19 May, 2002
The world is full of offers of poisoned cups to quench our thirst, but Jesus offers us his own Spirit to sustain us in the wilderness.
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18 May, 1997
The Holy Spirit, poured out on the church, opens pathways of communication, enabling the Gospel to break through the multiple barriers to our hearing. Barriers are also broken down to enable us to to communicate with one another and with God.
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9 January, 1994
In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us for mission.