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Topic: Faith
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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14 September, 2004
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Crucifixion, Death, Evil, Faith, Love
Scripture: Colossians, Genesis, Luke
The Cross is the tree at which we come to know the fullness of good and evil, and as we choose to bear the consequences of good and evil, it becomes for us the tree of life.
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20 July, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, Mark
The answers to the questions about our future directions are not easy, but we can trust the God who holds our future in his hands.
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11 August, 2002
The only thing which proves to be worth anything at all, the only thing that proves able to continually redeem our lives from the brink is faith in the crucified and risen one.
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7 July, 2002
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faith, Jesus, Liberation, peace
Those who insist that faith must satisfy their every ideology may miss out, while those who simply yoke themselves to Jesus will find the freedom and peace for which they yearn.
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5 May, 2002
We go out not to take Christ to others, but to meet Christ among them and reconnect his story and theirs.
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4 November, 2001
Faced with the callous injustice of the world, it takes tenacious trust in the vision of God’s just reign to survive.
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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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12 August, 2001
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faith, Faithfulness, Service, Worship
Scripture: Isaiah
Our liturgical expression of faith can nurture but not substitute for putting our faith into action.
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31 January, 1999
We are saved by our trust in God, and the only basis we are offered for our trust is the cross.
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4 October, 1998
Christian discipleship is about fully living the faith you have, and it is a basic human duty, not a cause for special commendation.
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12 November, 1995
Our doubts and questions are welcome to God so long as we are not using them to avoid Christ’s question to us – “Will you follow me?”
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13 August, 1995
Our life of faith is a journey motivated by the vision God gives us of what lies ahead.