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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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27 October, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Forgiveness, Grace, Humility, Jesus, judgement, Law, Repentance
Scripture: Luke
God delights to welcome everyone, and is not interested in who is better or worse, but we imagine God to be an elitist who mirrors our tendency to pick and choose and only accept the best.
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28 April, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Forgiveness, Grace, Jesus, judgement
When we crusade against the evil of others, we end up crusading against Jesus himself, for he asks us to become givers and lovers of life.
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5 August, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Forgiveness, Grace, Humility, judgement, Repentance, Sin
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel
We are often blind to our own entanglement in evil, but when our eyes are opened, we are called into pathways of repentance and transformation that lead to life and healing.
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8 July, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Failure, Faithfulness, Fear, Grace, Hospitality, Humility, Identity, judgement, Unity, Virtues
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Mark
Pretending to be better than we are alienates us from God and one another. Being open and real about our weaknesses and failures open us to God and one another.
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11 March, 2018
In the face of tragedy, we naturally cry out “Why?” Jesus meets us in the suffering and helps us find the path of life.
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10 December, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Mark
For both God and us, time can drag when waiting for change, but patience is salvation when forgiveness is offered as a means of change rather than as a reward for change.
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26 November, 2017
God has created a world that becomes healthy, free and full of life when its nations honour and care for the most vulnerable. Nations that fail to build cultures of compassion and care are doomed to destroy themselves.
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5 November, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Humility, Jesus, judgement, Reconciliation, Temptation, Virtues
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus’s quest for reconciliation is far wider and more discomfortingly radical than our tendency to jump on the bandwagon of popular justice causes.
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29 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grace, Incarnation, Jesus, judgement, Law, Love
Scripture: Matthew
Today, as in Jesus’s day, two fundamentally different visions of God and God’s expectations compete. Jesus calls us to side with the one that centres on love rather than the one that centres on concerns for holiness.
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15 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Authority, Faith, Fear, Forgiveness, Grace, judgement, Law, Temptation
Scripture: Exodus
God invites us to live joyously, boldly and freely in the midst of mystery, but we are frequently tempted to grasp for something more tangible and certain.
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8 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Jesus, judgement, Law, Reconciliation
Scripture: Exodus, Matthew, Philippians
When we use the biblical law to reinforce a worldview of sin and punishment, we doom ourselves to live in a judgemental world, a world from which Jesus offers to break us free.
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1 March, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Jesus, judgement, Liberation, Love
Jesus calls us to turn away from pathways of judgement and condemnation and to follow him on the harder path of love and new life.
