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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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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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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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25 January, 2026
Preacher: Mark Wilkinson
Topic: Community, Hospitality, Polarisation, Reconciliation, Relationships, Tribalism, Unity
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Isaiah, Matthew, Psalms
In both the Christian church as well as the wider world, there is increasing division. Is there a way we can become genuine peacemakers in both church and world?
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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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16 March, 2025
We wait for a Saviour who will bring the Kingdom of God – a kingdom of which we see many foretastes and which we strive to live for in the here and now.
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4 August, 2024
We can only keep the UNITY OF THE SPIRIT by experiencing the Oneness of Christ in all the parts of ourselves and each other.
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24 September, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Community, Compassion, Grace, Justice, Reconciliation
Scripture: Matthew
In order to recognise and cooperate with what God is doing, we often need to recognise and see past the assumptions that come with our own privilege.
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10 September, 2023
When we approach everyone with meet with the conviction that the one thing we owe them is love, Christianity will again be experienced as good news.
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23 April, 2023
Jesus meets us in our doubts and discombobulation and gives us instead a community of joyful hope.
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6 November, 2022
Preacher: Lina Toth (Andronoviene)
Topic: Church, Community, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Resurrection
Scripture: Luke
Jesus’s perplexing teaching on marriage and singleness calls us into a new network of relationships in which all are fully valued.
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1 November, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
The faithful who have gone before us are held securely in the powerful gracious memory of God, where their love and prayers for us live on until we are united with them in resurrection.
