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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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17 December, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Isaiah, John, Psalms
As God’s people, we celebrate life in the face of death, because we know that the victory of life has been secured.
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10 December, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Mark
For both God and us, time can drag when waiting for change, but patience is salvation when forgiveness is offered as a means of change rather than as a reward for change.
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3 December, 2017
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Children, Church, Hospitality, Mission, Worship
Scripture: 1 Corinthians
Stories of life, worship and ministry from the new church we have helped to plant in Warrnambool, where more than half of the congregation are children.
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26 November, 2017
God has created a world that becomes healthy, free and full of life when its nations honour and care for the most vulnerable. Nations that fail to build cultures of compassion and care are doomed to destroy themselves.
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12 November, 2017
While we are called to be a sharing community and thus to have no need of worry for tomorrow, you can’t look to others to provide you with the fruits of a life lived in generosity and prayerfulness.
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5 November, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Humility, Jesus, judgement, Reconciliation, Temptation, Virtues
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus’s quest for reconciliation is far wider and more discomfortingly radical than our tendency to jump on the bandwagon of popular justice causes.
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29 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grace, Incarnation, Jesus, judgement, Law, Love
Scripture: Matthew
Today, as in Jesus’s day, two fundamentally different visions of God and God’s expectations compete. Jesus calls us to side with the one that centres on love rather than the one that centres on concerns for holiness.
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22 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Jesus
Scripture: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Exodus, Matthew
Modelling ourselves on those who model themselves on Jesus is a healthy pathway to fulfilling the image of God within us.
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15 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Authority, Faith, Fear, Forgiveness, Grace, judgement, Law, Temptation
Scripture: Exodus
God invites us to live joyously, boldly and freely in the midst of mystery, but we are frequently tempted to grasp for something more tangible and certain.
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8 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Grace, Jesus, judgement, Law, Reconciliation
Scripture: Exodus, Matthew, Philippians
When we use the biblical law to reinforce a worldview of sin and punishment, we doom ourselves to live in a judgemental world, a world from which Jesus offers to break us free.
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1 October, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Authority, Discernment, Faithfulness, Jesus, Law, Love
Scripture: Matthew
The marriage equality debate raises questions about authority, but prophetic authority is not proved by fidelity to past rules, but by its power to produce a harvest of new life and love among the people.
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24 September, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Matthew
When Jesus exposes our aversion to having others recognised as our equals, he calls us to repent and celebrate God’s generosity to all. The marriage equality debate exposes another frontier of his challenge to us.
