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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 August, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Discernment, Jesus, Justice
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, John
If God seems unjust, we can and should question God’s integrity, for God welcomes our questions in order that the falsehoods might be stripped away and the truth revealed.
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1 July, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Liberation, Mercy, Reconciliation, Unity
Scripture: Mark
Jesus breaks down the barriers that divide us into pure and impure and removes the cause for the fear that marginalises people.
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24 June, 2012
On our own we are powerless to deal with many of the things that confront us, but when we recognise that and make ourselves available for whatever God wants to do, all kinds of scary things may actually be possible.
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10 June, 2012
Unquestioning allegiances to family and nation keep us bound to satanic systems, but Jesus binds the satan and breaks us free to be the new family of God.
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3 June, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hospitality, Love, Suffering, Trinity
The vision of the Trinity reveals some of the most important characteristics of God: radical mutual love, radically open hospitality, and transformative engagement with the suffering of the world.
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27 May, 2012
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Fear, Holy Spirit, Hope, Liberation, Resurrection, Salvation
The Holy Spirit is poured out on us so that the liberating presence of Christ may be with us all everywhere, freeing us from fear to live and speak boldly of the new life we have tasted.
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20 May, 2012
The Church is one body, sent into the world to live the life Jesus has begun, a life of love, reconciliation and mercy.
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13 May, 2012
Jesus invites us into a new relationship with God and with one another based on love and friendship instead of power and rivalry.
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6 May, 2012
God evaluates us only in terms of our growth to fruitfulness, expressed as Christ-like love, and such fruitfulness comes only from our interrelationship with Christ. God deals with us in whatever way will lead to further growth – sometimes that is gently, sometimes it is harshly, always it is for the same purpose.
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22 April, 2012
The foundation of our faith is in a living Christ who enables us to understand the Bible, rather than in a Bible that enables us to understand a dead Christ.
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7 April, 2012
The resurrection of Jesus is the most confronting and terrifying news imaginable, and all we can do (after trying to run) is surrender ourselves to his grace.
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25 March, 2012
The life and death of Jim Stynes give a contemporary picture of what it means to give your life away.
