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Topic: Incarnation
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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15 January, 2012
Preacher: Michael Hardin
Topic: Faithfulness, Hospitality, Incarnation, Jesus
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, John
As difficult as it is to imagine, God is shockingly present with us in Jesus.
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16 October, 2011
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Formation, Identity, Incarnation, Jesus, Vocation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Matthew
As creatures made in the image of God, imitation of God is the pathway to fullness of life.
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4 January, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Incarnation, Jesus, Reconciliation, Salvation
We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.
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10 February, 2008
Jesus full humanity meant that temptation was real for him, as it is for us. Temptation is not in itself bad, but indicates to us that we have a gift of choice.
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6 January, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grief, Incarnation, Repentance, Suffering
The revelation of what God is on about in Christ will always upend our expectations and disrupt our lives.
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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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3 August, 2003
Making the Church in the incarnate body of Christ is costly for God, and both challenging and salvific for us.
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6 April, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Culture, Discernment, Faithfulness, Grace, Hope, Incarnation, Suffering, Weakness
Scripture: John
God invites us to be immersed in another possible reality, to look at the world with the dark and contrary light that comes from the cross of Jesus.
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13 October, 2002
We worship our God with words and images from the imagination of human beings, believing that God can take even what we say and do speak to us in a voice nor our own and images not our own.
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21 November, 1999
Each human being is an icon of Christ and so the respect and care with which we deal with others is an expression of our devotion to Christ.
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3 October, 1999
Icons, as representations of the incarnation rather than images of God, can serve to open us to God rather than becoming alternatives to God.
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18 July, 1999
Embodied in all creation, God labours to bring to birth a new creation and the children of God.