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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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16 September, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Identity, Jesus, Repentance
When we commit ourselves to following Jesus, we surrender all our personal aspirations and our share in the aspirations of our nation, in order that we might receive the life of Christ.
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9 September, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Children, Hospitality, Jesus, Love, Reconciliation
Scripture: Mark
Jesus opens himself to the experience of those who are excluded and responds with a radical opening of the Table of God’s communion.
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2 September, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Fullness of Life, Gifts, Gratitude, Incarnation, Love, sex
Scripture: James, Mark, Song of Songs
Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.
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19 August, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Communion, Culture, Evil, Forgiveness, Jesus, Martyrdom, Reconciliation, Sacrifice, Salvation
Scripture: John
Jesus confronts us with our cannibalistic behaviour in order that we might follow him into a saving communion with God and one another.
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12 August, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.
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5 August, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Forgiveness, Grace, Humility, judgement, Repentance, Sin
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel
We are often blind to our own entanglement in evil, but when our eyes are opened, we are called into pathways of repentance and transformation that lead to life and healing.
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29 July, 2018
All of us, men especially, share responsibility for confronting and changing the culture that enables men to feel entitled to rape, and Jesus leads us into the new culture that sets us all free.
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22 July, 2018
Our common access to God through Christ breaks down walls of hostility, but we need to resist the universal impulse to build new ones.
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15 July, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, Mark
Glimpses of the transformed world that God makes possible transfix us and leave us hungering for more.
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8 July, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Failure, Faithfulness, Fear, Grace, Hospitality, Humility, Identity, judgement, Unity, Virtues
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Mark
Pretending to be better than we are alienates us from God and one another. Being open and real about our weaknesses and failures open us to God and one another.
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1 July, 2018
Preacher: Cameron Cutts
Reflections on the L’arche Melbourne Community’s pilgrimage to Uluru in celebration of their 40 years in Australia.
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24 June, 2018
Preacher: John Fowler
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark
We are called to focus on Jesus – not the battles or the storms of life. Nothing is too big or too rough for God.
