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Sermons

  • Crackpots or Cracked Pots?

    2 June, 2024

    Crackpots or Cracked Pots?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Grace, Hope, Reputation, Weakness

    Scripture: 2 Corinthians

    Those who faithfully follow Jesus and proclaim his message are flawed human beings who will not often appear successful or impressive.

  • The Bible, the Trinity, and the War

    26 May, 2024

    The Bible, the Trinity, and the War

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Bible, Discernment, Evil, Jesus, Sacraments, Trinity, War

    Scripture: Luke

    The doctrine of the Trinity teaches us how to take sides when the Bible brings us conflicting voices, especially over persistent issues like ethno-nationalism, racism, war, and genocide.

  • Much Needed Miracles of Communication

    19 May, 2024

    Much Needed Miracles of Communication

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Gifts, Holy Spirit, Prayer, Reconciliation, Relationships

    Scripture: Acts

    The Holy Spirit, poured out on the church, opens pathways of communication, breaking down barriers to enable us to communicate with one another and with God.

  • We are called to become a spring of living water

    12 May, 2024

    We are called to become a spring of living water

    Preacher: Haniele Laurindo

    Topic: Blessing, Evangelism, Hospitality, Mission, Spirituality, Vocation

    Scripture: John

    Living water is for all of us that would like to try it. When we try it, our lives change and instead of being thirsty we become a spring. As a result, our neighbours can try it too.

  • Stretching those Wings

    9 May, 2024

    Stretching those Wings

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abundance, Resurrection, Spirituality

    Scripture: Acts, Luke

    Christ is always stretching the boundaries beyond what we can comprehend, and his ascension stretches his presence to encompass even what seem to us to be his absence.

  • ‘Love as you have been loved’ and toxic masculinity

    5 May, 2024

    ‘Love as you have been loved’ and toxic masculinity

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abuse, Anger, Healing, Liberation, Love, Relationships, Repentance, Violence

    Scripture: John

    In order for men to step up and end the scourge of domestic violence, they need to experience themselves as loved and valued, liberating them to love others.

  • When the Family Line is Cut Off

    28 April, 2024

    When the Family Line is Cut Off

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Baptism, Conversion, Grace, Hospitality, Liberation, Mission, Unity

    Scripture: Acts

    In baptism we are adopted into a new family that is radically inclusive of those who have been cut off.

  • Blood and Guts Shepherding

    21 April, 2024

    Blood and Guts Shepherding

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Faithfulness, Jesus, Sacrifice, Suffering

    Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John, Psalms

    The image of Jesus as the good shepherd can speak of tough life-on-the-line love, not just cuddling lambs.

  • Honouring Disfigured Flesh

    14 April, 2024

    Honouring Disfigured Flesh

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Death, Hope, Incarnation, Resurrection

    Scripture: Luke

    The physicality of the resurrection is a mystery that assures us that God values and honours us as whole, embodied humans, even if our bodies are damaged or worn out.

  • Peace Be With You

    7 April, 2024

    Peace Be With You

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Forgiveness, Grace, Jesus, Resurrection, Service

    Scripture: John

    The forgiveness we experience in the risen Christ is dauntingly radical and we are called to share it.

  • Darkness Breaks Slowly

    30 March, 2024

    Darkness Breaks Slowly

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Doubt, Fear, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Resurrection

    Scripture: Mark

    The good news of resurrection meets us in the darkest places of our lives and so is initially incomprehensible and disorienting.

  • When God tries again

    17 March, 2024

    When God tries again

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Gifts, Grace, Healing, Love, Marriage, Salvation

    Scripture: Jeremiah

    God is passionately in love with us and longing to give us every good thing if we will respond to his love.

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Open Icon Baptist Church is an inclusive, contemplative congregation of dedicated Jesus-followers, weaving ancient and modern spiritual practices into warmly participatory online Sunday liturgical worship and daily prayer. Based in Melbourne, Australia, but now with members far and wide.

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Open Icon Baptist Church acknowledges that we live on unceded Aboriginal lands, many of us on the lands of the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri peoples. We express our gratitude at the sharing of this land; our sorrow for the personal, spiritual, and cultural cost of that sharing; and the hope that we may walk together in harmony in the spirit of reconciliation.

Open Icon Baptist Church is affiliated with both the Open Baptists and the Baptist Union of Victoria.


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