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Topic: Service
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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24 November, 1996
Christ’s call to respond to his presence in the needy is a call for the church to embrace a lifestyle of radical communal hospitality (but we have often used it to justify empires built on the labour of guilt-ridden, over-extended, under-prepared Christians!)
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26 November, 1995
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
In a world where both monarchy and presidential democracy have lost touch with the needs of the people, Christ shows a Kingship that is expressed in solidarity with our suffering and raises us to royal dignity.
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23 April, 1995
Empowered by resurrection joy, we are sent to continue the mission of Christ.
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9 January, 1994
In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us for mission.
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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.
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13 January, 1991
Jesus shows us the link between personal conversion and social action and transformation.