open icon
baptist church
baptist church
Topic: Incarnation
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!
Each sermon below opens in a new tab. Close the tab when you're done to return to this page.
-
23 November, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Empire, Faithfulness, Humility, Incarnation, Jesus, Leadership, Politics, Power, Service
To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority and to critique all power-mongering.
-
5 January, 2025
What difference does it make for us and in the world that The Word became flesh and made its dwelling among us?
-
14 April, 2024
The physicality of the resurrection is a mystery that assures us that God values and honours us as whole, embodied humans, even if our bodies are damaged or worn out.
-
4 February, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Incarnation, Leadership, Service, Vocation
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Isaiah, Mark
Following Jesus in ministering among the needs around us is not a call to do everything ourselves.
-
31 December, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
God reaches out to us through babies and elderly folks with a message of love and redemption that cuts through the theological justifications of empire and warmongering and calls us to peace.
-
6 January, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Gifts, Incarnation, Jesus, Spirituality
In Jesus, the truth about God’s ways and means is brought to light and we are called to so reflect that light that all might be drawn to it.
-
24 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Identity, Incarnation, Reconciliation, Scandal
The particularity of Jesus’s identity scandalises our tribal sensibilities, but our attempts to erase such details in favour of a more “universal” truth inevitably fail to convey the good news of God with us.
-
18 December, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Children, Family, Grace, Hospitality, Incarnation, Righteousness, Scandal, sex
Scripture: Matthew
God comes to us in unexpected ways, and the break with conventional religious respectability is even more earth-shattering than the break with conventional reproductive biology.
-
2 January, 2022
A sermon on John 1: 1-18 by Audrey Kateena
-
24 December, 2021
Preacher: Audrey Kateena
Topic: Christmas, Incarnation, Jesus
A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by Ephraim the Syrian (306-373CE) taken from his second Christmas hymn.
-
27 December, 2020
The child of God became a human, so that humans could become children of God.
-
24 December, 2020
Preacher: Sylvia Sandeman
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Hope, Incarnation, Jesus, Wisdom
God has hung a star in our sky, and called us to follow it to the Christ child, who will receive the gifts that we bring and we will return changed to our homes.
