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Topic: Blessing
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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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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1 February, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Blessing, Discipleship, Ethics, Generosity, Service, Vocation
Scripture: Matthew
The call to live the beatitudes is not about turning them into a guilt-inducing to-do list, but about living a life that is a blessing to others.
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11 January, 2026
Preacher: Geoff Leslie
Scripture: Isaiah
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An evolving understanding of being God’s chosen people reveals the call to focus on being a blessing to others and the world. -
22 September, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Jesus offers himself to us to serve and bless us, and calls us to do the same in serving and blessing others.
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12 May, 2024
Preacher: Haniele Laurindo
Topic: Blessing, Evangelism, Hospitality, Mission, Spirituality, Vocation
Scripture: John
Living water is for all of us that would like to try it. When we try it, our lives change and instead of being thirsty we become a spring. As a result, our neighbours can try it too.
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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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16 January, 2022
God’s love is passionate, attentive, tender and ardent. Jesus the bridegroom comes and woos God’s people in every generation.
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13 September, 2020
Preacher: Paul Turner
Topic: Abundance, Apocalypse, Blessing, Creation, Jesus
God created the earth and gave it to us, but mistreated, it rebels. Jesus, rising form the earth, redeems the earth, so that if can again be our true home.
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22 June, 2014
Jesus calls us to give up the illusion that we own God’s blessing, invite others in, and be despised for doing so, giving up our privileges to build a world that all can share.
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23 December, 2012
Like Mary, we are called to participate in God’s recreation and blessing of the world, and when we comprehend that call, we will, like Mary, explode with joy.
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17 January, 2010
Jesus says to each one of us “I am the new wine. Feed on me”.
