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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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8 June, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Holy Spirit, Hospitality, Reconciliation, Relationships
The Church born when God poured out the Holy Spirit, is one in which barriers of ethnicity, language, sex, age, and social status are transcended and all are equal in Christ.
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1 June, 2025
Christ’s story – the crucifixion of the truly good and its resurrection and coming victory – is the whole story of God’s work in the world and the whole story of the Bible.
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29 May, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
The ascension is the completion of the cosmic liturgy that frees us from our entanglement in sin, lifts us into the holy of holies, and sends us forth as the body of Christ for the world.
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25 May, 2025
Jesus wants to heal us from all that would diminish us, and he also wants us to cooperate with that by really wanting it and envisioning ourselves free.
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18 May, 2025
In our worship we drink in the vision of heaven and earth made one so that our yearning might be fuelled; strengthening us against despair and empowering us to strive for the renewal of the world.
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11 May, 2025
Resurrection keeps happening and keeps changing the world and overcoming the hostile deathly powers despite our inability to believe.
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4 May, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Forgiveness, Jesus, Liberation, Repentance, Resurrection
True forgiveness, which we encounter most fully in the risen Christ, does not gloss over the past but revisits it fully and carefully that we may be fully set free from it.
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27 April, 2025
The whole story of the universe, from creation to ultimate redemption, is held in God’s hands and revealed in the crucified and risen Christ, and all our stories are gathered safely into that larger story.
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19 April, 2025
The life-changing implications of the resurrection can be just as bewildering and impossible to get our heads around as the resurrection itself.
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6 April, 2025
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Gifts, Jesus, Service, Spirituality, Worship
Scripture: John, Philippians
Knowing Jesus intimately is the most important thing of all, but many of our otherwise good gifts and concerns are constantly getting in the way.
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30 March, 2025
If you set yourself against the other, you also cut yourself off from the Father who loves you both. You diminish yourself, cut off the other, and break the Father’s heart.
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23 March, 2025
God’s ways of abundance and grace are almost incomprehensible to those of us who have been shaped by the world’s ways of scarcity and merit based rewards and punishments.
