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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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15 April, 2006
The death of Christ strips us bare, but in his resurrection we are clothed in Christ and become participants in his resurrection life.
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26 March, 2005
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Resurrection
When hopes have been extinguished and all is despair, God comes back.
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30 May, 2004
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Holy Spirit, Liberation, Resurrection
The message of Pentecost is the message of Pascha – Christ is risen and, in him, we are liberated from our captivity to the spirits of death, fear, despair, and division, and freed to dance to the Holy Spirit’s tune.
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2 May, 2004
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Identity, Jesus, Martyrdom, Resurrection
Scripture: John, Psalms, Revelation
Jesus’s resurrection was a sign which declared that Jesus’ cause was God’s cause, that Jesus’ values were God’s values, that Jesus’ people were God’s people.
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25 April, 2004
The risen Christ is extravagantly generous and excruciatingly unwilling to settle for pious platitudes in return.
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18 April, 2004
The experience of the resurrected Christ may not be as instantly transformative as we’ve often thought, but those who seek Christ’s self-revelation will grow into his mission.
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9 November, 2003
Jesus promises that if we will face our deepest fear – the loss of our very souls – and if we will trust in his love, then we shall live, even though we die.
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25 May, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Hospitality, Love, Resurrection
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts, John
The resurrection has broken open many old certainties, and our ethics must now be grounded in the new things God is doing, characterised by radically inclusive love, rather than in the old restrictions.
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4 May, 2003
The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
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27 April, 2003
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Evil, Forgiveness, Grace, Healing, Jesus, Resurrection, Suffering
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John
As the victim of the ultimate in human evil, the risen Christ is the One who can offer the complete forgiveness, to us, and through us to the rest of the world.
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2 March, 2003
The Transfiguration points us back to Jesus’ baptism and forward to his resurrection, and reiterates that the only way from one to the other is the way of the cross.
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22 February, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Discipleship, Prayer, Resurrection, Vocation
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Luke
By preparing ourselves to die with Christ, we are raised and transfigured, new people with a new vocation.