Sermons
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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31 May, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: belonging, church identity, Hospitality, image of God, Reconciliation, Trinity
An ancient icon of the Trinity shows us a table of radical hospitality — and calls us not just to sit at it, but to become it.
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24 May, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: consumerism, eucharist, Feast of Tabernacles, Holy Spirit, living water, nationalism, paraclete, Pentecost, thirst and longing
Scripture: John
Jesus offers living water to a world sold counterfeit spirits — but bad experiences with cheap substitutes needn’t put us off the real thing.
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14 May, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Ascension, change and loss, church identity, Community, Holy Spirit, liminal space, multilingual worship, Pentecost
Scripture: Acts
When everything familiar has gone and the new thing hasn’t arrived yet, the disciples’ upper room is closer to home than we might think.
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10 May, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Evangelism, fasting, interfaith, Islam, Paul in Athens, Ramadan, Reconciliation, religious diversity, spiritual formation
Scripture: Acts
Paul in Athens, a Muslim Uber driver, and a Georgian bishop walk into a sermon — and together reframe what Christian interfaith encounter could look like.
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3 May, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Philip asked Jesus to show him God. The answer dismantles centuries of angry-God theology — and exposes the retributive impulse hiding in all of us.
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26 April, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Jesus came that we might have life in abundance — but abundant life can’t be hoarded. The moment we try to secure it for ourselves at others’ expense, it stops being life at all.
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19 April, 2026
When the executed one comes back, everyone expects retribution. The shock of resurrection is that he doesn’t.
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12 April, 2026
Preacher: Geoff Leslie
Topic: Justice, Land and faith, Resurrection, Vocation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Psalms
Psalm 16 began as a farmer’s prayer about good land and steady faith — and became something bigger without leaving the earth behind.
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4 April, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Communion, Community, Icons, Identity, Resurrection
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Genesis, Matthew
The resurrection doesn’t restore what we lost — it reveals what we were always becoming: living icons through whom the world might glimpse the life of God.
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22 March, 2026
Preacher: Andrew Dodd
When Jesus says “I am,” he’s not just making a claim — he’s pulling a thread that runs from a burning bush through a valley of dry bones to a man walking out of a tomb.
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15 March, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, blindness and sight, Generosity, Justice, Karma, Light and darkness, reward and punishment
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, John, Psalms
The desire for a fair universe is real and grief-filled – but Jesus steps outside that framework entirely, and invites us into something better.
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8 March, 2026
Context changes everything. Where, when and how we encounter life changes what we seek and long for from God and faith. Adaptive faith allows for the constancy of God in our ever-changing lives. It also requires us to be fluid – like water!

