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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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31 May, 2020
Preacher: Lina Toth (Andronoviene)
Topic: Gifts, Holy Spirit, peace, Reconciliation
The Holy Spirit breaks out of the boxes that our limited languages construct, surprising us with new messages of hope and freedom and life.
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19 April, 2020
Jesus’s encounter with Thomas and the first disciples can show us a thing or two about living under lockdown and hoping for a miracle to save us.
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19 January, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Humility, Law, peace, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Matthew
Godly love and respect doesn’t prevent disagreements in the church community, but it should enable us to address them without having to call in the lawyers.
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15 December, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Matthew
The coming kingdom culture confronts the world’s violence by redemptively suffering and absorbing it, not by reciprocating it with even greater violence.
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17 November, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Discipleship, Evil, Jesus, judgement, peace, Sacrifice
Global chaos marked by war, terror and injustice is growing inevitably, and as followers of Jesus we stand in witness against it, knowing that God is with us to the end.
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7 April, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Communion, Incarnation, Love, peace, Reconciliation, Worship
Jesus shows us that being overly cautious about the boundaries of personal space and touch can, especially in worship, risk excluding, stigmatising and humiliating people.
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24 March, 2019
Jesus sets out to reshape our view of the relationships between sin, repentance and disaster, and if possible, to call us out of our spiral into global self-destruction.
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17 March, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Fear, Grief, Love, peace, Sacrifice, Sin
Scripture: Luke, Philippians
In a world that is hell-bent on self-destruction, Jesus calls us to gather to him and to love faithfully and vulnerably with him, rather than surrendering to the hate and fear.
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22 July, 2018
Our common access to God through Christ breaks down walls of hostility, but we need to resist the universal impulse to build new ones.
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13 May, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Jesus, peace, Reconciliation, Worship
Scripture: John
Jesus’s priestly identity and mission have been passed on to us and are to be seen in our prayer and our lives.
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25 February, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
God has promised the whole world to all God’s children, but not exclusive rights to some bits of it to some people.
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27 August, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Jesus, peace, Reconciliation, Sacrifice, Sin, Worship
Recognising what sort of sacrifices we are called to make and what sort of sacrifices we are called to refrain from making is crucial to faithfully following the way of Jesus.
