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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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23 February, 2003
God has bound pastors and people together in Christ, that we might share in the ultimate victory of Christ as all God’s promises are fulfilled.
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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.
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16 February, 2003
God in Jesus Christ touches our grubby humanity to make it clean, so that human beings and human community might regain their colour, shape and original purpose.
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9 February, 2003
The demonic forces of our culture and time colonise our lives but if we turn to Christ, he will drive away the demons and fill us with his Spirit. His truth will set us free.
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2 February, 2003
We are called to take sides in a conflict between the prophet of love and peace and the prophets of hatred and violence.
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26 January, 2003
The story of Jonah nurtures our own life of faith, revealing that God can work his purposes out even in and through people like Jonah and us.
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24 December, 2002
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas
A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by St Leo the Great.
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22 December, 2002
God is always acting, but often in surprising and paradoxical ways. The ways of God often reverse human expectations.
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8 December, 2002
In the midst of horror and despair, Christ arrives with love enough, with peace enough, with hope enough to make things very, very, very different.
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1 December, 2002
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Gifts, Hope, Worship
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Isaiah, Mark
The Advent season is a gift that illumines our present with light from our promised goal, to shape us as a people of patient and vigilant faithfulness.
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24 November, 2002
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
The hope that empowers us to maintain our counter-cultural obedience to Christ, is that the One who will eventually rule over all is the One who offers himself as a suffering servant of all.
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17 November, 2002
The Coming Christ will reward and celebrate with those he finds having a go and making the most of all they have been given, not those who fearfully play it safe.