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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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19 January, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Baptism, Commitment, Generosity, Hospitality, Marriage, Scandal
Scripture: John
All-in commitment is unfashionable, but it is often what God needs from us to allow the richest blessings to flow.
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25 February, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Conflict, Discipleship, Identity, Love, Scandal, Suffering
In an increasingly polarised world, championing the radical love and mercy shown by Jesus is likely to bring hostility from all sides.
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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.
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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.
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18 September, 2022
Jesus’s parables always shock us, and few things shock us more than the outrageous graciousness that God shows us and calls for from us.
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22 December, 2013
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Hospitality, Purity, Reputation, Righteousness, Scandal, Virtues
Scripture: Matthew
When God is moving to do something new among us, it almost always seems scandalous, immoral and offensive to many, and is just as likely to involve those who are regarded as morally suspect.
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27 July, 2008
The incoming Kingdom of God often challenges conventional social norms to such an extent that it is perceived as anarchic or even evil.
