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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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5 October, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Depression, Grief, Lament, Prayer, Spirituality
Scripture: Lamentations, Psalms
Healthy spirituality requires an honesty about our experience of pain and confusion in the real world, and that means that lamentation is a part of healthy prayer.
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14 September, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Culture, Depression, Ecology, Fear, Grief, Hope
In order to find our way into the good news of life in all its fullness, we need to first stop denying and distracting ourselves from the bad news we are drowning in.
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17 November, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Conflict, Culture, Depression, Empire, Faithfulness, Oppresion, Politics, Temptation, Vocation, War
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark
Perhaps amidst the increasingly depressing state of the world, Jesus is calling us to learn the path of faithfulness from those who never win.
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8 October, 2023
In times of rupture, we, like Isaiah, can pour out our words, images and even anguished songs as we try to gather up the pieces and make some sense.
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4 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Depression, Hope, peace, Righteousness, Spirituality
Our sure hope of a new future brought to fulfilment in the coming Christ inspires and empowers us to live now in ways which resist the despair and selfishness of our age and anticipate the peace and righteousness of the coming age.
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10 October, 2021
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Depression, Grief, Suffering
Faithful lament, even enraged and despairing lament, takes us close to the heart of God, though we usually can’t perceive God when we are there.
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27 June, 2021
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Death, Depression, Grace, Grief, Healing, Spirituality
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark, Psalms
The experience of winter is God’s gift, inviting us to silence, healing and new depth of life.
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29 September, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Depression, Fear, Grief, Healing, Jesus, Resurrection, Suffering
Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Jeremiah
There are plenty of reasons to despair of the future, but Jeremiah and Jesus show us a pathway of hope that overcomes despair.
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22 September, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Depression, Faithfulness, Fear, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Suffering
Scripture: Jeremiah
Facing an epidemic of depression and despair, Jesus calls us to follow on a tear-stained path of prophetic faithfulness.
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7 November, 2004
Preacher: Andrew Woff
Topic: Commitment, Depression, Discipleship, Faith
Scripture: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Haggai
In the pain of discouragement, God keeps whispering to us: I am still with you, and the future has possibilities you have not dreamed of. So take courage, keep at it, hold on, don’t give up.
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8 June, 2003
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Depression, Fullness of Life, Holy Spirit, Salvation
The day of Pentecost is the day when the Spirit comes to interrupt and call into question the inevitability of our despair.
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7 October, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Anger, Apocalypse, Depression, Faith, Love, Salvation, Suffering
Scripture: Jeremiah, Lamentations, Luke
When the world falls apart, God recognises the pain, the despair, and the anger, and gifts us with faith, with an assurance that God’s power of love will yet prevail, that God will accomplish the justice and the peace we long for.
