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Sermons

  • In the Meantime

    16 October, 2022

    In the Meantime

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Hope

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Jeremiah, Luke

    God has promised a time of resurrection and renewal, and has given us guidance for living faithfully in the meantime.

  • The kingdom of God is among you

    9 October, 2022

    The kingdom of God is among you

    Preacher: Belinda Groves

    Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Gratitude, Hospitality, Mission

    Scripture: Luke

    Jesus challenges us to bring our lives to where God is active, to share in building the kingdom of God.

  • Spirits of Love and Fear

    2 October, 2022

    Spirits of Love and Fear

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Fear, Fullness of Life, Generosity, Love

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy

    When you know yourself truly beloved by God in Christ, you are freed from fear and shame to live fully and generously and courageously.

  • The Chasm and the Cross

    25 September, 2022

    The Chasm and the Cross

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Crucifixion, Ethics, Grace, Greed, Jesus, Mercy, Suffering

    Scripture: Luke

    The cross of Jesus can teach us to recognise the innocence of suffering, and so enable us to recognise our own dependence on God’s mercy and to stop digging our own hells.

  • A Clever Rogue and Outrageous Graciousness

    18 September, 2022

    A Clever Rogue and Outrageous Graciousness

    Preacher: Gilbert Joyce

    Topic: Bible, Forgiveness, Grace, Scandal

    Scripture: Luke

    Jesus’s parables always shock us, and few things shock us more than the outrageous graciousness that God shows us and calls for from us.

  • Forgive us, Lord. We know not what we do.

    11 September, 2022

    Forgive us, Lord. We know not what we do.

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abuse, Forgiveness, Grace, Leadership, Politics, Sacrifice, Service

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Psalms

    Our unwitting abusive treatment of the Royal family is a symptom of our entanglement in systemic persecution.

  • The ecological ethics of Genesis 1 & 2

    4 September, 2022

    The ecological ethics of Genesis 1 & 2

    Preacher: Jonathan Cornford

    Topic: Bible, Creation, Ecology, Ethics

    Scripture: Genesis

    As dangerous climate change unfolds before our eyes, the best possible outcome is entirely dependent upon humanity coming to a full acknowledgement of its special power and its special responsibility, which must centrally involve mastering our power.

  • The Awkwardness of Being a Guest

    21 August, 2022

    The Awkwardness of Being a Guest

    Preacher: Cas Wepener

    Topic: Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Humility

    Scripture: Luke

    Jesus calls all who are worn out from maintaining appearances as hosts to relax into the humility of being guests.

  • Hard Discipline

    14 August, 2022

    Hard Discipline

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Apocalypse, Faithfulness, Hope, judgement, Justice, Suffering

    Scripture: Hebrews, Isaiah, Luke

    Adversity, violence, and suffering can come as a consequence of not just sin, but of radical love, but with love it can strengthen and sharpen us for fullness of life.

  • Imagination

    7 August, 2022

    Imagination

    Preacher: Jody Kilpatrick

    Topic: Creation, Faith, Hope, Vocation

    Scripture: Hebrews, Isaiah

    Imagination, fed by Jesus, enables us to grow and stretch, to make a way from what is to what could be, for the sake of worlds of hope God is already excited about.

  • Intimate Partner Violence and the Image of God

    31 July, 2022

    Intimate Partner Violence and the Image of God

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Anger, Bible, judgement, Terror, Violence

    Scripture: Hosea

    When we read scripture through the eyes of Jesus, we find a way free of the violent abusive images of God in some of the ancient texts.

  • Earth-Shattering Prayer

    24 July, 2022

    Earth-Shattering Prayer

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Power, Prayer

    Scripture: Colossians, Luke

    The Lord’s Prayer is a manifesto for a whole new way of relating to God and the world.

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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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