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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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5 January, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Christmas, Fear, Grief, Hope, Incarnation, Suffering
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
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24 December, 2019
The Christmas stories assure us that Jesus is the one who brings light into our darkness.
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22 December, 2019
Faithful waiting for for the fulfilment of God’s promises can leave us feeling compromised and alienated in the world around us.
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15 December, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Matthew
The coming kingdom culture confronts the world’s violence by redemptively suffering and absorbing it, not by reciprocating it with even greater violence.
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8 December, 2019
The imminent arrival of God’s messiah asks each of us to take up the identity of witnesses who open the way for God to be known.
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1 December, 2019
We can face the unknown future with confidence because we know that the one who holds the future loves us and can be trusted.
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13 October, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Hope, Incarnation, Jesus, Politics
Scripture: Jeremiah
When God calls us to invest in the places we live, it is a call to active agents of positive change, not compliant patriots.
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22 September, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Depression, Faithfulness, Fear, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Suffering
Scripture: Jeremiah
Facing an epidemic of depression and despair, Jesus calls us to follow on a tear-stained path of prophetic faithfulness.
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18 August, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faith, Faithfulness, Hope, Hospitality
Lived faith is the way to life in God, but it passes through a baptism of fire.
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30 May, 2019
Preacher: Fr Brian Buckley
Topic: Hope, Jesus, Resurrection
In Christ’s ascension onto the mysterious cloud, we are gathered together into his mysterious presence.
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20 April, 2019
We have been drawn into an unstoppable rumour that keeps interrupting the dominant story of fear, hostility and death.
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24 March, 2019
Jesus sets out to reshape our view of the relationships between sin, repentance and disaster, and if possible, to call us out of our spiral into global self-destruction.
