Sermons
At Open Icon Baptist Church, we value 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.
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18 May, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Jesus, Reconciliation, Resurrection, Salvation, Spirituality
Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.
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14 May, 2023
Preacher: Francesca D Nuzzolese
Scripture: Matthew
In the most hidden and dark places, God is at work.
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7 May, 2023
In the face of the cultural call for an all-tolerating lack of conviction, we are called to be a particular people who follow and champion a distinctive way – the way found in Jesus.
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30 April, 2023
Jesus’s purpose for us is that we (individually and collectively) have fullness of life.
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23 April, 2023
Jesus meets us in our doubts and discombobulation and gives us instead a community of joyful hope.
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16 April, 2023
A comic monologue on the story of Doubting Thomas, presented in the style of “Fred Dagg” as a fan’s tribute to the late great John Clarke.
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8 April, 2023
It is only in light of the resurrection that we can comprehend the sin and death that we are being liberated from.
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26 March, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Formation, Grace, Grief, Healing, Resurrection, Spirituality, Suffering
Grief and suffering bring us close to the heart of the suffering God and can open us to God’s transforming and resurrecting power.
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19 March, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Evil, Fullness of Life, Liberation, Oppresion, Spiritual Warfare
There are forces conspiring to keep us in the dark, but Jesus opens our eyes so that we can see that our deepest yearnings are satisfied only in God.
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12 March, 2023
Like the woman at the well, we can encounter Jesus not simply as a historical worker of “signs and wonders” but as a contemporary spirit powering our actions today if only we are willing to take a leap of faith and believe in His Word.
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5 March, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Conversion, Discipleship, Spirituality, Weakness
Being born of water and Spirit involves becoming as vulnerable and dependent on God as a newborn baby.
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26 February, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Discipleship, Evil, Spiritual Warfare, Temptation
Whether or not you can accept the idea of a personal devil, there are forces of evil in the world that are bigger and more powerful than our own inner flaws, but conscious and united, we are stronger still.


