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Topic: Resurrection
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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5 December, 2010
The promise that God will bring new life from a dead stump challenges our haste to chop down whatever seems to be in our way.
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7 November, 2010
God is so totally about life, life and more life, that we have trouble comprehending anything of what God is on about.
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6 June, 2010
When drought and death threaten to destroy us, God will bring us through the barren times and raise us back to life, for doing so is the defining sign of God’s presence.
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4 April, 2010
Preacher: Andrew Woff
Topic: Fear, Hope, Resurrection
A sermon for the Great Paschal Vigil preached by the Revd Andrew Woff
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31 May, 2009
The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.
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10 May, 2009
The risen Christ and his word are often revealed in the words and actions of a stranger. Sometimes we are called to welcome and heed the stranger; and sometimes we are called to be the faithful stranger to others.
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26 April, 2009
Faith in the risen Christ is always a physical thing, experienced and expressed in physical ways.
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21 June, 2008
In Baptism, Christ has united us with himself in his death to sin and his resurrection to radically new life.
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8 June, 2008
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Discipleship, Resurrection, Vocation
You might have been written off as a dead loss (even by yourself), but only respond to the call of Christ, and you will live!
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6 April, 2008
Christ is so present we loose the ability to see him. We need to worship to recover our sight.
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4 February, 2007
The encounter with the resurrected crucified Jesus enables us to see the absolute love, mercy and non-vengefulness of God.
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30 April, 2006
The risen Christ confronts us with both the gruesome consequences of our violence and the terrifying shock of grace.