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Topic: Generosity
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 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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25 April, 2004
The risen Christ is extravagantly generous and excruciatingly unwilling to settle for pious platitudes in return.
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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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29 July, 2001
In baptism we are joined to Christ and we now live as he leads, and celebrate the freedom of others to do so also.
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5 November, 2000
Love is both command and promise and is what gives meaning to all our offerings to God.
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9 August, 1998
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Fullness of Life, Generosity, Greed, Jesus, Spiritual Disciplines, Stewardship
Scripture: Luke
The search for meaning and fullness of life without cost, risk or struggle is futile, but the Kingdom is still a free gift, given by God, to all who will accept it.
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10 November, 1996
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Generosity, Hospitality, Stewardship
Scripture: Matthew
Although all in the church may appear equally worthy, it is those who live the life (inward and outward) of the Kingdom now who are prepared for its coming.
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20 February, 1994
God affirms fullness of life over religion.
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8 February, 1992
There are all sorts of right-sounding ways we avoid being neighbours and to encourage service of neighbours.