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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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2 August, 2009
Our One God and Father feeds us with one bread so that we might grow up into Christ and be the missional community the Spirit is leading us to become.
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26 July, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, John
Jesus reveals that God is a God of abundance who will lovingly provide plenty for all, but the common perception of scarcity easily corrupts us and leads to treachery and abuse.
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12 July, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, Mark
God created everything and destined everything to be part of the one glorious story of God’s love and grace, and through Jesus, God draws us back into the story.
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21 June, 2009
When things are desperate, God calls us only to be faithful and committed, because the outcomes are in God’s hands, not ours.
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31 May, 2009
The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.
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24 May, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Fullness of Life, Jesus
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John
When we encounter Jesus, we are seeing the truth about God and the truth about life as it is meant to be lived. To embrace that truth will put us at odds with the world, but on the pathway to fullness of life.
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17 May, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Justice, Love, peace, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John
The knowledge that we are loved by God and the tenacious sharing of that love break the power of the world’s systems to lock us in to destructive cycles overwork, over consumption, and compliance with injustice and war.
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10 May, 2009
The risen Christ and his word are often revealed in the words and actions of a stranger. Sometimes we are called to welcome and heed the stranger; and sometimes we are called to be the faithful stranger to others.
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26 April, 2009
Faith in the risen Christ is always a physical thing, experienced and expressed in physical ways.
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29 March, 2009
Jesus’s unique priesthood ensures that he is able to help us, and his solidarity with us in suffering ensures that he will help us.
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22 March, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Fullness of Life, Jesus, judgement, Liberation, Love, Salvation
God’s love for us is so great that God will do anything to give us a way out of the self-condemnation and self-destruction of continuing to live in conformity with the world’s ways.
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15 March, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: John
Jesus is angered by our trivialising of religion that inoculates us against the claims of a holy God, and calls us to clean out the crassness and commercialism and approach God on God’s terms.