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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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27 September, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Humility, Jesus, Purity, Virtues
Scripture: Mark
Jesus’s invitation is radically open and inclusive, and we need to guard carefully against our own culturally conditioned instincts to start narrowing and policing it.
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13 September, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Church, Grace, Hospitality, Love, Relationships, Service
Scripture: James
Good gossip, listening in love to each other’s stories and seeking the presence of God, helps us to build connection and community and to grow in love.
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19 July, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Empire, Hospitality, peace, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians
Building impressive buildings can be about a desire to monopolise and contain God, whereas God wants us to break down any walls that divide and exclude anyone.
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14 June, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Faithfulness, Hospitality
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, 2 Corinthians, Mark
God calls us to faithful expressions of the Culture of God which usually look unimpressive and unruly when judged by the world’s usual standards of success.
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12 April, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Abundance, Communion, Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Service, Virtues
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts
With every step we take towards God’s economy, we will become more powerful in our witness to God’s saving action and love for the world, and be filled ever more deeply with God’s good grace.
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28 September, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Gratitude, Hospitality, Mission, Service
Scripture: Matthew, Philippians
We pray for our neighbours to be blessed, but could we actually be being called to give a blessing?
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1 June, 2014
We are to witness to this incredible, unbelievable, but very real truth: that in God’s reality, love crosses every divide, even the chasm of death.
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18 May, 2014
We are a ragtag bunch, but in witnessing to God’s mercy and love, we become the people of God together.
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6 January, 2014
Preacher: Richard Treloar
Topic: Hospitality, Reconciliation, Service, Unity
How might the biblical witness and the Eucharistic meal set before us shed light on our sense of vocation, on the offerings we seek to bring, individually and collectively?
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29 December, 2013
The Christmas story includes a message of God’s solidarity with and care for children and families who live in fear and who flee to seek refuge. We corrupt the message if we make it about our children and not all children.
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22 December, 2013
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Hospitality, Purity, Reputation, Righteousness, Scandal, Virtues
Scripture: Matthew
When God is moving to do something new among us, it almost always seems scandalous, immoral and offensive to many, and is just as likely to involve those who are regarded as morally suspect.
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14 July, 2013
God is always reaching out to those who we have cast off as nobodies, treating them as beloved somebodies, and calling us to follow in doing the same.
