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Book: Exodus
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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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!
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3 March, 2024
We all learn our desires from others, but most of them are destructive, and law tries to control them. The pathway to freedom and life is to follow Jesus and learn to desire as he desires.
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1 October, 2023
There is life and nourishment hidden in the depths, and through Jesus the rock it is accessible to us.
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17 September, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Forgiveness, judgement, Mercy, Politics, Violence
God’s offer of unlimited forgiveness creates a new world in which we are free to stop judging one another and turning on one another and spiralling into violence and hatred.
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3 September, 2023
Our true identity is only found when we discover that it is not about us, but that we are only truly anyone in relation to the God who is everything, and who is not the opposite of anything.
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6 August, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Exodus, Matthew
The stories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on various mountain tops reveals a process of God’s self-revelation as the one who loves us and suffers for us.
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22 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Jesus
Scripture: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Exodus, Matthew
Modelling ourselves on those who model themselves on Jesus is a healthy pathway to fulfilling the image of God within us.
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15 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Authority, Faith, Fear, Forgiveness, Grace, judgement, Law, Temptation
Scripture: Exodus
God invites us to live joyously, boldly and freely in the midst of mystery, but we are frequently tempted to grasp for something more tangible and certain.
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8 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Jesus, judgement, Law, Reconciliation
Scripture: Exodus, Matthew, Philippians
When we use the biblical law to reinforce a worldview of sin and punishment, we doom ourselves to live in a judgemental world, a world from which Jesus offers to break us free.
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10 September, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Jesus, Law, Love, Reconciliation
Law typically serves to contain the expression of human desire within safe bounds, but Jesus calls us to follow him in fulfilling the law through radical love and mercy that always seeks reconciliation.
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19 March, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Conversion, Faith, Forgiveness, Grace, Jesus, Love, Salvation
Our deepest thirst will never be satisfied by cautious morality and religious compliance, but it will be abundantly quenched when we drink deeply of the living water of joyous intimacy that Jesus pours out freely.
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8 March, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
When we approach God’s way of life and the Sabbath not as punishment, but as gift, the experience becomes a chance to rest from work and from striving; and to allow space for God through contemplation and re-creation and play.
