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    • Participants’ Guide
  • Worship & Prayer
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Sermons

  • 6 July, 2014

    They Started It!

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Jesus, Liberation

    Scripture: Matthew

    Trying to establish our own righteousness burdens us with divisiveness and hostility, but Jesus offers us rest and freedom.

  • 29 June, 2014

    Exchanging God for a Lawless Life

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Law, Liberation, Reconciliation, Violence

    Scripture: Matthew, Romans

    God and religion misunderstood can be the cause of hostility, division and violence, but the God made known to us in Jesus is a God of grace who generously gives us life, freedom and reconciliation.

  • 22 June, 2014

    Sharing the Inheritance

    Preacher: Alison Sampson

    Topic: Blessing, Reconciliation, Unity

    Scripture: Genesis, Matthew

    Jesus calls us to give up the illusion that we own God’s blessing, invite others in, and be despised for doing so, giving up our privileges to build a world that all can share.

  • 15 June, 2014

    Stumbling into the Love Dance of the Trinity

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Love, Trinity

    Understanding God as a relational trinity can guide us into the deep loving relationships with God and one another for which we were created.

  • 1 June, 2014

    Our Witness to the Risen Christ

    Preacher: Alison Sampson

    Topic: Hospitality, Love, Prayer, Reconciliation

    Scripture: Acts

    We are to witness to this incredible, unbelievable, but very real truth: that in God’s reality, love crosses every divide, even the chasm of death.

  • 18 May, 2014

    From rabble to royal priesthood

    Preacher: Alison Sampson

    Topic: Church, Hospitality, Identity

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, John

    We are a ragtag bunch, but in witnessing to God’s mercy and love, we become the people of God together.

  • 11 May, 2014

    I am the Door/Gate

    Preacher: Chris Barnden

    Topic: Formation, Fullness of Life, Jesus, Liberation

    Scripture: John

    Jesus is the door through which we pass to receive life – life in his name – a life of authenticity, a life of freedom, a life of purpose.

  • 4 May, 2014

    Through the Eyes of a Dead Man

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Bible, Crucifixion, Jesus, Resurrection

    Scripture: Luke

    The crucified and risen Jesus teaches us to interpret the whole Bible through his eyes.

  • 19 April, 2014

    The Great Reversal Moves Forward

    Preacher: David Devine

    Topic: Mission, Resurrection

    Scripture: Matthew

    The message of Easter was that the disciples would find Jesus – not at the empty tomb – but going ahead of them into Galilee – on the mission field.

  • 30 March, 2014

    God sees what’s on the inside and there’s nothing to fear

    Preacher: Alison Sampson

    Topic: Formation, Grace, Love

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, John, Psalms

    God’s refining work is done not through judgement and punishment, but through the transforming power of love.

  • 23 March, 2014

    The Living Water of Love and Freedom

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Liberation, Love

    Scripture: John, Romans

    God gives us the love we thirst for, even while we are still fighting against God, and in doing so, God sets the pattern for us to follow that will bring freedom to the world.

  • 16 March, 2014

    Risk Evaluation and Reckless Trust

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Faith, Holy Spirit, Hope

    Scripture: Genesis, John

    Jesus calls us to entrust ourselves into the care of the Spirit who will carry us into the unknown future of 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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