Book: Jeremiah
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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4 January, 2026
At New Year we are called to see God’s grand vision of fullness and abundance for all the world, and reset our sense of mission accordingly.
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23 November, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Empire, Faithfulness, Humility, Incarnation, Jesus, Leadership, Politics, Power, Service
To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority and to critique all power-mongering.
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9 November, 2025
A Biblical drama exploring the 6th century Babylonian Exile through the eyes of two people who lived through it and through the Biblical records.
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19 October, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grace, Prayer, Salvation, Spiritual Disciplines
The relationship between God’s work and our work in salvation is not a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery to be lived in prayer and faithful discipleship.
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28 September, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Community, Compassion, Ethics, Generosity, Hospitality, Love, Politics, Relationships
Even in the face of a catastrophic collapse of the world as we know it, God calls us to imagine and invest in a beautiful future.
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21 September, 2025
Preacher: Geoff Leslie
Scripture: 1&2 Timothy, Jeremiah, Luke
Hope for our troubled world requires turning anger into tears, resentment into prayers, and financial power into generosity.
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14 September, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Culture, Depression, Ecology, Fear, Grief, Hope
In order to find our way into the good news of life in all its fullness, we need to first stop denying and distracting ourselves from the bad news we are drowning in.
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31 August, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Compassion, Discipleship, Hospitality, Violence
In the face of social breakdown and environmental catastrophe, we are called, not to angry protest, but to creative expressions of love, compassion, and hospitality.
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24 August, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Discipleship, Ecology, Faithfulness, War
Scripture: Jeremiah
Our call to bear witness to the culture of God comes at a time when we face the real prospect of doom and destruction, and so must contend with that.
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16 February, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Economics, Generosity, Liberation, Prayer, Wisdom
There is a fundamental culture clash between those who put their trust in God and those who pursue wealth, comfort and celebrity.
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1 December, 2024
Faced with the decline and disintegration of the Church, we are called to offer ourselves to God as the new branch who faithfully carry God’s love and mercy into a new era.
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17 March, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Gifts, Grace, Healing, Love, Marriage, Salvation
Scripture: Jeremiah
God is passionately in love with us and longing to give us every good thing if we will respond to his love.

