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Topic: Saints
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 November, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Culture, Empire, Faithfulness, Jesus, Martyrdom, peace, Politics, Power, Saints, Spiritual Warfare, Violence, War
The saints of God are engaged in a war between conflicting empires battling for control of the world, but Jesus has radically transformed our understanding of how we fight.
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1 November, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Isaiah, John, Revelation
Christ’s grief gathers up our griefs and achieves the promise of a day when tears will be no more.
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1 November, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Matthew, Revelation
Living the beatitudes is tough and dangerous, and we will need the inspiration and company of the saints, before us and beside us, if we are going to make it.
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1 November, 2022
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
The faithful who have gone before us are held securely in the powerful gracious memory of God, where their love and prayers for us live on until we are united with them in resurrection.
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1 November, 2014
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Matthew, Revelation
As we gather with the saints of all times to worship the crucified victim, we are immersed in a culture that is so at odds with the values of this world that those who truly embrace it just appear odd for now, but strangely and alluringly familiar too.
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1 November, 2007
Living the beatitudes is far to lightly dismissed as being “only for saints”, but Christ calls us all to live as saints.
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1 November, 1998
The values Christ calls us to live by can (for most people) only be lived in community with the saints, past and present.
