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Sermons

  • A Matter of Integrity

    16 September, 2018

    A Matter of Integrity

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Identity, Jesus, Repentance

    Scripture: James, Mark

    When we commit ourselves to following Jesus, we surrender all our personal aspirations and our share in the aspirations of our nation, in order that we might receive the life of Christ.

  • Coming Out From Under the Table

    9 September, 2018

    Coming Out From Under the Table

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Children, Hospitality, Jesus, Love, Reconciliation

    Scripture: Mark

    Jesus opens himself to the experience of those who are excluded and responds with a radical opening of the Table of God’s communion.

  • Hot Sex & Hypocrisy

    2 September, 2018

    Hot Sex & Hypocrisy

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abundance, Fullness of Life, Gifts, Gratitude, Incarnation, Love, sex

    Scripture: James, Mark, Song of Songs

    Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.

  • Cannibalism and Communion

    19 August, 2018

    Cannibalism and Communion

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Communion, Culture, Evil, Forgiveness, Jesus, Martyrdom, Reconciliation, Sacrifice, Salvation

    Scripture: John

    Jesus confronts us with our cannibalistic behaviour in order that we might follow him into a saving communion with God and one another.

  • The Bread You Feed On

    12 August, 2018

    The Bread You Feed On

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Formation, Fullness of Life, Grace, Jesus, Love, Virtues

    Scripture: Ephesians, John

    Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.

  • A Question of Repentance

    5 August, 2018

    A Question of Repentance

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Conversion, Forgiveness, Grace, Humility, judgement, Repentance, Sin

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel

    We are often blind to our own entanglement in evil, but when our eyes are opened, we are called into pathways of repentance and transformation that lead to life and healing.

  • Confronting a Rapist

    29 July, 2018

    Confronting a Rapist

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Evil, Failure, Fear, Jesus, sex, Sin

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel

    All of us, men especially, share responsibility for confronting and changing the culture that enables men to feel entitled to rape, and Jesus leads us into the new culture that sets us all free.

  • Jesus – Sledge Hammer Champion

    22 July, 2018

    Jesus – Sledge Hammer Champion

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Jesus, Love, peace, Politics, Reconciliation

    Scripture: Ephesians

    Our common access to God through Christ breaks down walls of hostility, but we need to resist the universal impulse to build new ones.

  • A Caveful of Compassion

    15 July, 2018

    A Caveful of Compassion

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Culture, Grace, Gratitude, Hope, Reconciliation, Salvation, Unity

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, Mark

    Glimpses of the transformed world that God makes possible transfix us and leave us hungering for more.

  • Thorns, Warts and All

    8 July, 2018

    Thorns, Warts and All

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Failure, Faithfulness, Fear, Grace, Hospitality, Humility, Identity, judgement, Unity, Virtues

    Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Mark

    Pretending to be better than we are alienates us from God and one another. Being open and real about our weaknesses and failures open us to God and one another.

  • Reflections on a Pilgrimage

    1 July, 2018

    Reflections on a Pilgrimage

    Preacher: Cameron Cutts

    Reflections on the L’arche Melbourne Community’s pilgrimage to Uluru in celebration of their 40 years in Australia.

  • Peace, be still.

    24 June, 2018

    Peace, be still.

    Preacher: John Fowler

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark

    We are called to focus on Jesus – not the battles or the storms of life. Nothing is too big or too rough for God.

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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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