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Preacher: Sylvia Sandeman
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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Sylvia Sandeman
Sylvia Sandeman (1941 – 2025) was a vital community anchor and choir member across multiple congregations, including ours, Rosanna Baptist Church, and St Kilda Baptist Church, often all at the same time. Sylvia was a healthcare pioneer, joining Cabrini Hospital in Malvern, Victoria in 1976 as one of its foundational radiographers. Across a 34-year career at Cabrini, she helped pioneer the hospital's first advancements in CT and MRI medical imaging. She built deep ties with the Cabrini sisters (nuns) and was uniquely chosen to represent their Catholic assembly at an international conference in New York.
Sermons by Sylvia Sandeman
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24 December, 2020
Preacher: Sylvia Sandeman
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Hope, Incarnation, Jesus, Wisdom
God has hung a star in our sky, and called us to follow it to the Christ child, who will receive the gifts that we bring and we will return changed to our homes.
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21 July, 2019
A sermon on Luke 10: 38-42 by Sylvia Sandeman Some… read more
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10 March, 2019
Lent calls us to faithfulness to God and we need to assess the direction of our journey, our call to ministry and also to meet our own demons.
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21 August, 2011
We have to choose between being squeezed into the world’s mould or re-moulded from within by God.
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11 July, 2010
God’s call to us is to be the embodiment of divine compassion.
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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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8 March, 2009
Hope is the melody of the future – Faith dances to it today
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28 August, 2005
God calls us, as individuals and as a church, to a journey with him, but sometimes we find ourselves sitting at a station watching the trains go by.
