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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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21 March, 2010
The life Christ call us to is not found by seeking to recover the past or escape from the past, but by opening ourselves to the new things God will do.
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28 February, 2010
Our allegiance to Christ and our citizenship of his Realm take priority over those to our local culture, but that doesn’t rule out a continuing love of our homeland and tribe.
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21 February, 2010
Demonic temptations do not usually look demonic, but are usually a subtle undermining of our sense of who we are that cause us to grasp for quick fixes.
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14 February, 2010
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Discipleship, Formation, Jesus
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Luke
In a moment of transfiguration we glimpse the weightiness of Jesus and his mission, and we are ourselves transfigured, becoming people of greater substance.
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31 January, 2010
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Generosity, Humility, Love, Prophesy
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Jeremiah, Luke
God speaks prophetically through the Church and through some individuals, and the prophetic task is inseparable from humility, constructiveness, graciousness, love, patience and generosity.
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24 January, 2010
The reading of scripture is one of the most important places where God has promised to become present and known to us.
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20 December, 2009
God comes to us, in seemingly insignificant places and borne by easily overlooked people.
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15 November, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Discernment, Faithfulness, Hope, Violence
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Hebrews, Mark
A growing incidence of cataclysmic violence is not a sign of God’s activity, but it does call us to hold on to our hope and look for God’s action in small signs of life coming from death.
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25 October, 2009
We remain blind to much of what Jesus would have us see until we allow him to open our eyes to see through the eyes of others.
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18 October, 2009
True greatness comes in devoting ourselves to recognising and liberating the greatness in others, and that will often come at the cost of misunderstanding, sniping and rejection.
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13 September, 2009
Taking up your cross is about a willingness to pay the price of following Jesus and living out your baptism. It is not a generalised stoicism.
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6 September, 2009
God is doing and saying far more than we can see or hear, but God is always ready to penetrate the presumptions and complacencies that are closing our eyes and ears.