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Sermons
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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22 September, 2013
Forgiving the way Jesus does will always be seen as not just disreputable, but even dangerous and criminal.
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15 September, 2013
God sees us as trapped in the rubble of a collapsing world and is desperately seeking to find and rescue us before it is too late.
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8 September, 2013
Thanks be to God, we are in safe hands. God who has been the author, will also be the finisher of our faith.
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1 September, 2013
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
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25 August, 2013
God is all ready to heal and free us, but organised religion is not always so quick to agree.
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18 August, 2013
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Liberation, Salvation, Vocation
Full-blooded Christian discipleship may cost us some precious relationships and a lot of blood sweat and tears, but we will have plenty of new supporters and it all all be well worth it in the end.
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11 August, 2013
Believing and following Jesus is about faith because certainty is impossible and doubts are unavoidable.
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4 August, 2013
God has created us for relationships, and any values or priorities that are willing to sacrifice relationship for something else will cripple us.
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28 July, 2013
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Fullness of Life, Healing, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines
Scripture: Luke
Answers to prayer are not a controllable formula, but we are called to pray as part of our participation in God’s quest to bring healing, wholeness and life to a world of chaos.
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21 July, 2013
When we follow Christ in being pain-bearers, we are participating in the reconciliation of the world.
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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.
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7 July, 2013
In order for God to come to us as the healer and the liberator of souls, we must be prepared to let go of every religious pretension, every cultural certainty, every economic doctrine, every aspirational rule.