Book: Genesis
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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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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1 March, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Blessing, Discernment, Faithfulness, Identity, Love, Pilgrimage, Vocation
A church discerns its new name while remembering that identity is not possession, but a journey of love shaped by God’s call to be a blessing.
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22 February, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Blessing, Generosity, Grace
In a world ruled by suspicion and blame, the gospel announces an abundance that was never earned and cannot run out.
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8 June, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Holy Spirit, Hospitality, Reconciliation, Relationships
The Church born when God poured out the Holy Spirit, is one in which barriers of ethnicity, language, sex, age, and social status are transcended and all are equal in Christ.
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18 February, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Bible, Conversion, Covenant, Discernment, Ethics, judgement, Lent, Repentance
Scripture: Genesis
Both contemporary and ancient understandings of the rainbow sign point to God’s expansive love overcoming our fears and hostilities.
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7 January, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Baptism, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mission, Service
In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.
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23 July, 2023
The stairway to heaven is revealed in the darkest places and situations of our lives, in the difficult and dangerous places, in the situations where we least expected it.
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2 July, 2023
The usual interpretation of the binding of Isaac is that God requires us to sacrifice everything, even, if asked, our own children. But could a contextual awareness reveal a more life-giving reading?
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4 June, 2023
What does the first creation story in Genesis look like through a decolonised lens? We hear insights from First Nations scholars who reveal the life-giving power of Spirit and Land together.
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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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4 September, 2022
As dangerous climate change unfolds before our eyes, the best possible outcome is entirely dependent upon humanity coming to a full acknowledgement of its special power and its special responsibility, which must centrally involve mastering our power.

