Topic: Relationships
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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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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15 June, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Love, Relationships, Trinity
The Christian understanding of God as Trinity is not so much something you have to make sense of, but a call to recognise that God is by nature relational, and that we are invited into the triune relationship of love.
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8 June, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Holy Spirit, Hospitality, Reconciliation, Relationships
The Church born when God poured out the Holy Spirit, is one in which barriers of ethnicity, language, sex, age, and social status are transcended and all are equal in Christ.
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2 February, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Love, Relationships, Spirituality
Scripture: 1 Corinthians
God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.
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6 October, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Ethics, Fullness of Life, Grace, Law, Marriage, Relationships, War
Scripture: Mark
Jesus calls us to embrace God, life, and one another with joy, delight, hope, and grace, not with heartlessness cloaked in legalities.
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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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7 July, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Church, Conflict, Humility, Reconciliation, Relationships, Weakness
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, 2 Corinthians, Mark
God is most likely and able to work through those who accept their own weakness and don’t try to forcefully assert their own power and influence.
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19 May, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Gifts, Holy Spirit, Prayer, Reconciliation, Relationships
Scripture: Acts
The Holy Spirit, poured out on the church, opens pathways of communication, breaking down barriers to enable us to communicate with one another and with God.
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5 May, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abuse, Anger, Healing, Liberation, Love, Relationships, Repentance, Violence
Scripture: John
In order for men to step up and end the scourge of domestic violence, they need to experience themselves as loved and valued, liberating them to love others.
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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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30 July, 2023
Preacher: Cheryl Williams
Topic: Children, Compassion, Healing, Holy Spirit, Relationships
We are not alone or orphaned. The one who creates, loves, reconciles, shows us the way to truth, shows us the way into the future is an abiding presence with us.

