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Topic: Compassion
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 February, 2026
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Compassion, Culture, Discipleship, Ethics, Jesus, Justice, Law, Suffering
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus calls us to be salt and light by living a public embodied faith that tells the truth, resists indifferent silence, and makes God’s justice and love visible in the world.
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21 December, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Compassion, Racism, Repentance, Terror
Confused feelings in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre are a window into the ongoing need for healing and transformation in our own hearts.
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16 November, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Compassion, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Polarisation, Salvation
Scripture: Luke
Jesus warns us that disasters are ubiquitous and do not all herald the end of time, and calls us to persevere in the life of love even when we are blamed and persecuted.
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26 October, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Compassion, Grace, Humility, Polarisation, Repentance, Virtues
Scripture: Luke
When we respond to others with judgement and contempt instead of empathy and compassion, we fail to understand God and live God’s love for others.
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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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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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22 December, 2024
Preacher: Liza B. Lamis
Topic: Compassion, Discipleship, Empire, Justice, Liberation, Power, Spirituality
Scripture: Luke
Young. Woman. Pregnant. Unmarried. How does Mary the mother of Jesus speak to you today?
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13 October, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
In calling us into the culture of God, Jesus calls us to give up our addictions to tribalism, competitive grief, and selective compassion.
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15 September, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Compassion, Fullness of Life, Jesus, Liberation, Salvation, Spirituality, Wisdom
Jesus carries and embodies the Biblical tradition of wisdom, calling us to let go of our self-focussed lives and expand into new lives of wisdom, love and compassion.
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11 August, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Church, Compassion, Culture, Formation, Fullness of Life, Generosity, Grace, Love, Relationships, Virtues, Worship
Scripture: Ephesians
The measure of the value of our worship is the measure of the transformation of our lives into imitations of the love and kindness of Jesus.
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21 July, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Compassion, Conflict, Grace, Identity, peace, Reconciliation, Salvation
Scripture: Ephesians
Healing the world’s tribalism and uniting us as one human family is the central goal of the gospel, the mission of salvation, the realisation of the kingdom of God.
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21 January, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Bible, Compassion, Conflict, Empire, Grace, Reconciliation, Violence
Scripture: Jonah
The story of Jonah challenges us whenever we start thinking that we have special rights as God’s people.
