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Topic: Hope
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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23 August, 2020
Jesus calls us to prayerfully persevere for what is right and what is good, to never give up on our quest for the promise of life, and to always hold on to hope for the fulfilment of God’s will and purpose for our lives.Â
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6 August, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Exodus, Matthew
The stories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on various mountain tops reveals a process of God’s self-revelation as the one who loves us and suffers for us.
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24 May, 2020
Preacher: Anna Killigrew
Topic: Conversion, Discernment, Discipleship, Faith, Formation, Hope
Scripture: Acts
Jesus leads us through the confusion of transition times, into a new space with hugely expanded horizons and lives made meaningful in a global way.
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21 May, 2020
The Ascension is not a story about the absence of Christ, but of Christ’s extraordinary presence with us everywhere and always.
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17 May, 2020
In the worldwide lockdown, we stand on an uncomfortable threshold and wonder where God is. God responds to our need, sending the Holy Spirit to stand with us.
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10 May, 2020
True martyrdom involves suffering even unto death. But, no less important, the martyr sees what other people may not be seeing, and opens their eyes to it.
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26 April, 2020
Preacher: Roslyn Wright
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Hope, Jesus, Resurrection
Scripture: Luke
Like the Emmaus travellers, Jesus calls us to pay attention to what is happening in these strange times, to what makes our hearts burn within us, and so to be changed ready to live differently.
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19 April, 2020
Jesus’s encounter with Thomas and the first disciples can show us a thing or two about living under lockdown and hoping for a miracle to save us.
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11 April, 2020
Preacher: Joel Sierra
Topic: Grace, Hope, Incarnation, Resurrection, Salvation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Matthew
As Woody Allen said, 90% of success is just showing up, and in the resurrection, Jesus really shows up!
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29 March, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Death, Fear, Fullness of Life, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Lent, Resurrection
Jesus leads the way towards a new experience of life that is so utterly alive that death is powerless to threaten, limit or constrain it.
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15 March, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Fear, Hope, Hospitality, Jesus, Lent, Prayer, Resurrection, Service
The COVID-19 scare can reinforce our Lenten call to prepare our hearts by facing up to our mortality and the real limits of our control over the world.
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26 January, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Hope, Jesus, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Isaiah, Matthew
Jesus calls us to neither conservatism nor iconoclasm, but to a faithful reckoning with the gifts and the sins of the past as we welcome and adapt to the new.
