Sermons
At Open Icon Baptist Church, we value 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.
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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.
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16 August, 2009
God blesses us with much more than we need, but instead of throwing away the excess, we are to take what we don’t need and do something with it.
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9 August, 2009
But the call is to be “Fair Dinkum” with each other, to be open and trust who we are to this community.
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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.