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Sermons

  • Prince of Peace, or Enemy of the Peace?

    25 June, 2023

    Prince of Peace, or Enemy of the Peace?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Apocalypse, Conflict, Culture, Family, Love, peace, Sacrifice, Unity, Violence

    Scripture: Matthew

    Jesus did not come with the goal of making some gentle improvements to the status quo, but to disable the status quo by exposing its lies and revealing its victims. Without our culture being radically converted by that, the result is escalating chaos, to which Jesus offers himself as a victim and calls us to do the same.

  • Leaving Quarantine with Jesus

    11 June, 2023

    Leaving Quarantine with Jesus

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Ethics, Faith, Fear, Healing, Purity, Righteousness

    Scripture: Matthew

    Jesus calls us to follow him in being a contagious force for love and mercy rather than fearfully quarantining ourselves from bad influences.

  • Decolonising Genesis 1

    4 June, 2023

    Decolonising Genesis 1

    Preacher: Samara Pitt

    Topic: Creation, Ecology, Holy Spirit

    Scripture: Genesis

    What does the first creation story in Genesis look like through a decolonised lens? We hear insights from First Nations scholars who reveal the life-giving power of Spirit and Land together.

  • Filled with the Spirit 

    28 May, 2023

    Filled with the Spirit 

    Preacher: Joel Sierra

    Topic: Formation, Holy Spirit, Love, Spiritual Disciplines

    Scripture: Ephesians

    Repetition of everything God-like is an important pathway to Christian maturity.

  • While you’re waiting …

    21 May, 2023

    While you’re waiting …

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Hope, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, Spirituality

    Scripture: Acts, John

    When God closes one chapter before opening another, the time in between is a time for prayer and entering into the life of God.

  • Not Knowing Where to Look

    18 May, 2023

    Not Knowing Where to Look

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discernment, Jesus, Reconciliation, Resurrection, Salvation, Spirituality

    Scripture: Acts, Luke

    Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.

  • The Gifts of Darkness

    14 May, 2023

    The Gifts of Darkness

    Preacher: Francesca D Nuzzolese

    Scripture: Matthew

    In the most hidden and dark places, God is at work.

  • Cultural Cringe and Jesus the Way

    7 May, 2023

    Cultural Cringe and Jesus the Way

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Empire, Evangelism, Humility

    Scripture: John

    In the face of the cultural call for an all-tolerating lack of conviction, we are called to be a particular people who follow and champion a distinctive way – the way found in Jesus.

  • Fullness of Life

    30 April, 2023

    Fullness of Life

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abundance, Formation, Fullness of Life

    Scripture: John

    Jesus’s purpose for us is that we (individually and collectively) have fullness of life.

  • From Discombobulation to Joyful Hope

    23 April, 2023

    From Discombobulation to Joyful Hope

    Preacher: Audrey Kateena

    Topic: Community, Doubt, Hope, Resurrection

    Scripture: Luke

    Jesus meets us in our doubts and discombobulation and gives us instead a community of joyful hope.

  • Merely-Reserving-Judgement Thomas

    16 April, 2023

    Merely-Reserving-Judgement Thomas

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Conversion, Doubt, Jesus, Resurrection

    Scripture: John

    A comic monologue on the story of Doubting Thomas, presented in the style of “Fred Dagg” as a fan’s tribute to the late great John Clarke.

  • 8 April, 2023

    A Backwards Glance

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Liberation, Resurrection, Sin

    Scripture: Romans

    It is only in light of the resurrection that we can comprehend the sin and death that we are being liberated from.

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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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