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Sermons

  • Something Worth Seeing

    4 April, 2026

    Something Worth Seeing

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Communion, Community, Icons, Identity, Resurrection

    Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Genesis, Matthew

    The resurrection doesn’t restore what we lost — it reveals what we were always becoming: living icons through whom the world might glimpse the life of God.

  • Before Abraham Was Born, I Am

    22 March, 2026

    Before Abraham Was Born, I Am

    Preacher: Andrew Dodd

    Topic: Death, Grief, Hope, Identity, Jesus, Resurrection

    Scripture: Ezekiel, John

    When Jesus says “I am,” he’s not just making a claim — he’s pulling a thread that runs from a burning bush through a valley of dry bones to a man walking out of a tomb.

  • Dear Karma: What We’re Really Hungry For

    15 March, 2026

    Dear Karma: What We’re Really Hungry For

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abundance, blindness and sight, Generosity, Justice, Karma, Light and darkness, reward and punishment

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, John, Psalms

    The desire for a fair universe is real and grief-filled – but Jesus steps outside that framework entirely, and invites us into something better.

  • Water, water everywhere… and not a drop to drink

    8 March, 2026

    Water, water everywhere… and not a drop to drink

    Preacher: Amelia Koh-Butler

    Topic: Faith, Justice

    Scripture: Exodus, John

    Context changes everything. Where, when and how we encounter life changes what we seek and long for from God and faith. Adaptive faith allows for the constancy of God in our ever-changing lives. It also requires us to be fluid – like water!

  • A Name on the Way

    1 March, 2026

    A Name on the Way

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Blessing, Discernment, Faithfulness, Identity, Love, Pilgrimage, Vocation

    Scripture: Genesis, John, Psalms

    A church discerns its new name while remembering that identity is not possession, but a journey of love shaped by God’s call to be a blessing.

  • When Scarcity Is the Illusion

    22 February, 2026

    When Scarcity Is the Illusion

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abundance, Blessing, Generosity, Grace

    Scripture: Genesis, Matthew, Romans

    In a world ruled by suspicion and blame, the gospel announces an abundance that was never earned and cannot run out.

  • Transfigured Glory: From Empire to Liberation

    15 February, 2026

    Transfigured Glory: From Empire to Liberation

    Preacher: Jenn Garavito

    Topic: Empire, Humility, Justice, Liberation, Love, Oppresion

    Scripture: Matthew

    Jesus’ Transfiguration reveals God’s liberating glory, calling us to justice, humility, and fearless love amid oppression.

  • The Salt of the Earth In Our Open Wounds

    8 February, 2026

    The Salt of the Earth In Our Open Wounds

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Compassion, Culture, Discipleship, Ethics, Jesus, Justice, Law, Suffering

    Scripture: Matthew

    Jesus calls us to be salt and light by living a public embodied faith that tells the truth, resists indifferent silence, and makes God’s justice and love visible in the world.

  • Blessed and Blessing

    1 February, 2026

    Blessed and Blessing

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Blessing, Discipleship, Ethics, Generosity, Service, Vocation

    Scripture: Matthew

    The call to live the beatitudes is not about turning them into a guilt-inducing to-do list, but about living a life that is a blessing to others.

  • Aspiring to unity in a divided world

    25 January, 2026

    Aspiring to unity in a divided world

    Preacher: Mark Wilkinson

    Topic: Community, Hospitality, Polarisation, Reconciliation, Relationships, Tribalism, Unity

    Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Isaiah, Matthew, Psalms

    In both the Christian church as well as the wider world, there is increasing division. Is there a way we can become genuine peacemakers in both church and world?

  • Come and See, Listen and Learn

    18 January, 2026

    Come and See, Listen and Learn

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Salvation, Sin, Tribalism

    Scripture: Isaiah, John, Psalms

    Salvation – reconciliation with God and with one another – is relational rather than transactional, and it begins with a willingness to see, listen and learn.

  • Echoes: Israel, Cyrus, Jesus and me

    11 January, 2026

    Echoes: Israel, Cyrus, Jesus and me

    Preacher: Geoff Leslie

    Topic: Baptism, Blessing, Mission, Prophesy, Service, Vocation

    Scripture: Isaiah

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    An evolving understanding of being God’s chosen people reveals the call to focus on being a blessing to others 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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