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    • Participants’ Guide
  • Worship & Prayer
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Sermons

  • 15 July, 2012

    Nothing to be embarrassed about

    Preacher: Alison Sampson

    Topic: Abundance, Commitment, Fullness of Life, Generosity, Gratitude, Worship

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians

    God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.

  • 8 July, 2012

    The Stumbling Stone Sermon

    Preacher: Samara Pitt

    Topic: Discipleship, Failure, Faithfulness, Jesus, Vocation, Weakness

    Scripture: Mark

    Like the disciples, we stumble, but we too can pick ourselves up and re-orient ourselves to the transformed landscape that Jesus is slowly mapping out for us.

  • 1 July, 2012

    Revulsion and Contagious Love

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Conversion, Liberation, Mercy, Reconciliation, Unity

    Scripture: Mark

    Jesus breaks down the barriers that divide us into pure and impure and removes the cause for the fear that marginalises people.

  • 24 June, 2012

    Beyond the Limits!

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Faithfulness, Weakness

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark

    On our own we are powerless to deal with many of the things that confront us, but when we recognise that and make ourselves available for whatever God wants to do, all kinds of scary things may actually be possible.

  • 10 June, 2012

    Ties that Bind

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Demons, Evil, Family, Liberation

    Scripture: Mark

    Unquestioning allegiances to family and nation keep us bound to satanic systems, but Jesus binds the satan and breaks us free to be the new family of God.

  • Contemplating the Trinity

    3 June, 2012

    Contemplating the Trinity

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Hospitality, Love, Suffering, Trinity

    The vision of the Trinity reveals some of the most important characteristics of God: radical mutual love, radically open hospitality, and transformative engagement with the suffering of the world.

  • 27 May, 2012

    Loosing Tongues

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Fear, Holy Spirit, Hope, Liberation, Resurrection, Salvation

    Scripture: Acts, John

    The Holy Spirit is poured out on us so that the liberating presence of Christ may be with us all everywhere, freeing us from fear to live and speak boldly of the new life we have tasted.

  • 20 May, 2012

    Church and World

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Jesus, Love, Mercy, Reconciliation, Unity

    Scripture: Acts, John

    The Church is one body, sent into the world to live the life Jesus has begun, a life of love, reconciliation and mercy.

  • 13 May, 2012

    I Call You My Friends

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Jesus, Love, Power

    Scripture: John

    Jesus invites us into a new relationship with God and with one another based on love and friendship instead of power and rivalry.

  • 6 May, 2012

    Christ of the Coonawarra

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Formation, Jesus, Love, Spirituality

    Scripture: John

    God evaluates us only in terms of our growth to fruitfulness, expressed as Christ-like love, and such fruitfulness comes only from our interrelationship with Christ. God deals with us in whatever way will lead to further growth – sometimes that is gently, sometimes it is harshly, always it is for the same purpose.

  • 22 April, 2012

    To Understand the Scriptures

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Authority, Bible, Formation, Jesus, Resurrection

    Scripture: Luke

    The foundation of our faith is in a living Christ who enables us to understand the Bible, rather than in a Bible that enables us to understand a dead Christ.

  • 7 April, 2012

    This Changes Everything

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Faithfulness, Forgiveness, Hope, Resurrection

    Scripture: Mark

    The resurrection of Jesus is the most confronting and terrifying news imaginable, and all we can do (after trying to run) is surrender ourselves to his grace.

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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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