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Topic: Crucifixion
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 June, 2025
Christ’s story – the crucifixion of the truly good and its resurrection and coming victory – is the whole story of God’s work in the world and the whole story of the Bible.
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20 November, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conflict, Crucifixion, Culture, Jesus, Law, Leadership, Politics, Purity
Scripture: Colossians, Jeremiah, Luke
Jesus comes to break us free from oppressive understandings of God and of God’s expectations of us.
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25 September, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Luke
The cross of Jesus can teach us to recognise the innocence of suffering, and so enable us to recognise our own dependence on God’s mercy and to stop digging our own hells.
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16 April, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Baptism, Crucifixion, Discipleship, Evil, Grace, Jesus, Justice, Oppresion, Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus opens a path and calls us to follow into a life that is no longer dominated by the crucifying powers that destroy some of us and dehumanise others.
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13 February, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Crucifixion, Forgiveness, Fullness of Life, Grace, Jesus, Liberation, Mercy, Resurrection, Salvation
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Luke
All that matters about God, about sin and forgiveness, and about living with integrity and freedom, flows from the human encounter with the crucified and risen Jesus.
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4 May, 2014
The crucified and risen Jesus teaches us to interpret the whole Bible through his eyes.
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29 March, 2013
A reflection on the Good Friday story of the crucifixion from the perspective of the disciple Joanna.
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20 March, 2011
God’s promised protection can only be understood through the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
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27 January, 2008
The message of the cross cuts against everything that would divide us from one another, and so cuts against everything that would drive us out.
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17 September, 2006
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Crucifixion, Discipleship, Jesus, Violence
Scripture: Mark
Jesus leads the way in exposing and opposing violence, no matter what the cost, and life is found in following his lead.
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14 September, 2004
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Crucifixion, Death, Evil, Faith, Love
Scripture: Colossians, Genesis, Luke
The Cross is the tree at which we come to know the fullness of good and evil, and as we choose to bear the consequences of good and evil, it becomes for us the tree of life.
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4 July, 2004
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Crucifixion, Culture, Jesus, Spiritual Warfare, Temptation
Scripture: Galatians
The world will try to domesticate the gospel and get it to reinforce the world’s status quo and moral codes, but as people identified with Christ on the cross, we live the radical (and offensive) life of the new creation.
