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Topic: Healing
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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6 July, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Demons, Healing, Identity, Liberation, Oppresion, Salvation, Sin, Spiritual Warfare
We all get trapped in demonic and dehumanising social structures, but Jesus unmasks the truth so that we can be set free.
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25 May, 2025
Jesus wants to heal us from all that would diminish us, and he also wants us to cooperate with that by really wanting it and envisioning ourselves free.
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23 February, 2025
The call to love our enemies is not a new law to slave at, but a call into a culture of love so wild and free and strong that no one can hate it out of us.
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27 October, 2024
The capacity to understand and follow the way of Jesus is a miraculous gift.
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14 July, 2024
In his suffering death, Jesus calls us to solidarity with all who suffer, and in his complete lack of vengefulness, the risen Christ offers the hope of healing from our violence.
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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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17 March, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Gifts, Grace, Healing, Love, Marriage, Salvation
Scripture: Jeremiah
God is passionately in love with us and longing to give us every good thing if we will respond to his love.
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28 January, 2024
Jesus overcomes the demonic powers which colonise our religious structures and thinking and which rob us of our freedom, integrity and life.
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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.
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11 June, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Ethics, Faith, Fear, Healing, Purity, Righteousness
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus calls us to follow him in being a contagious force for love and mercy rather than fearfully quarantining ourselves from bad influences.
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26 March, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Formation, Grace, Grief, Healing, Resurrection, Spirituality, Suffering
Grief and suffering bring us close to the heart of the suffering God and can open us to God’s transforming and resurrecting power.
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23 October, 2022
God invites us into a journey of healing, growth and reconciliation, and values our engagement with that journey far above our individual accomplishments.
