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Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
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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Pastor
Nathan Nettleton
Nathan Nettleton has served as pastor of this congregation since 1994. He was ordained as a Baptist pastor that same year and completed an honours degree in theology at Whitley College in 1995, followed by a Master of Theology in Liturgical Studies from the University of Divinity in 2001. In our church, he carries particular responsibilities for the preaching, teaching, and ordering of worship and prayer, and for pastoral care. He also writes liturgical resources for a global audience through LaughingBird.net, and serves as a board member of Open Baptists. Nathan is married to Margie, and they have an adult daughter, Acacia, and two dogs.
Sermons by Nathan Nettleton
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5 October, 2014
The Ten Commandments are not about creating a system of law and punishment. They are a window into the stories and the lifestyle of the culture of God.
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21 September, 2014
God’s grace is so extravagant that it will offend us as long as we are measuring our worth in comparison to others.
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7 September, 2014
Christ is present to us in love, unity and reconciliation, and thus these are essential to our worship.
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10 August, 2014
Faith is a gift created in us as Jesus shows us that the pathway of courageous love and self-sacrifice is not impossible to walk.
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13 July, 2014
God does not judge people’s capacity to respond and focus love and care only on the productive, but gives gifts with wanton freedom and extravagance and calls us to do the same.
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6 July, 2014
Trying to establish our own righteousness burdens us with divisiveness and hostility, but Jesus offers us rest and freedom.
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29 June, 2014
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Law, Liberation, Reconciliation, Violence
God and religion misunderstood can be the cause of hostility, division and violence, but the God made known to us in Jesus is a God of grace who generously gives us life, freedom and reconciliation.
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15 June, 2014
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Understanding God as a relational trinity can guide us into the deep loving relationships with God and one another for which we were created.
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4 May, 2014
The crucified and risen Jesus teaches us to interpret the whole Bible through his eyes.
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23 March, 2014
God gives us the love we thirst for, even while we are still fighting against God, and in doing so, God sets the pattern for us to follow that will bring freedom to the world.
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16 March, 2014
Jesus calls us to entrust ourselves into the care of the Spirit who will carry us into the unknown future of God.
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2 March, 2014
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Exodus, Matthew
The stories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on various mountain tops reveals a process of God’s self-revelation as the one who loves us and suffers for us.
