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    • Participants’ Guide
  • Worship & Prayer
  • Sermons
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  • Cloud of Voices

Sermons

  • 5 September, 2010

    Surrender to the Potter’s Hands

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Faith, Formation

    Scripture: Jeremiah

    Those who trust God and remain flexible enough to change and grow will have nothing to fear from God’s strong hands.

  • 29 August, 2010

    Sacrifices That Please God

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Compassion, Ritual, Sacrifice, Service, Worship

    Scripture: Hebrews

    True worship, which honours and pleases God, is a seamless combination of ritual praise and a life lived in doing good for others.

  • 22 August, 2010

    Put to Shame

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Conversion, Healing, Humility, Jesus, Repentance

    Scripture: Luke

    A sense of shame can be God’s invitation to accept healing and new life.

  • 8 August, 2010

    Faithful Faith

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Discipleship, Doubt, Faith

    Scripture: Hebrews, Luke

    Faith is not the absence of doubt, but the courage and trust to be faithful to God in your your actions and life, despite doubts and disappointments.

  • 25 July, 2010

    The Prayer of the Church

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Church, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines

    Scripture: Luke

    The Lord’s Prayer is given to us, the Church, as a model to shape all our praying.

  • 18 July, 2010

    Seething Silence and Furious Love

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Anger, Justice, Love, Reconciliation

    Scripture: Amos, Luke

    God’s anger over injustice and hypocrisy is the hot passionate anger of a lover betrayed and aggrieved, an anger which craves reconciliation and rekindled love, not punishment.

  • 11 July, 2010

    It all depends how you look at it

    Preacher: Sylvia Sandeman

    Topic: Compassion, Love, Service

    Scripture: Amos, Colossians, Luke

    God’s call to us is to be the embodiment of divine compassion.

  • 4 July, 2010

    Go in Peace

    Preacher: Ian Cook

    Topic: Grace, Identity, judgement, Prayer

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Galatians

    Pray for all people and let God do the judging. The world may be an evil place but you are God’s children and evil has been overcome.

  • 20 June, 2010

    Don’t Try This Alone

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Church, Demons, Holy Spirit, Liberation, Spiritual Warfare

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Luke

    Christ calls us together into a spirit-filled body in the face of demonic forces that would seek to drive us apart and trick us into the fatal error of going it alone.

  • 13 June, 2010

    The Power of Love versus the Love of Power

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abuse, Forgiveness, Love, Mercy, Power

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Luke

    We are called to confront and oppose the abuse of power, but also to continue to love and offer forgiveness to those whose actions we are opposing.

  • 6 June, 2010

    One Who Gives Life

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Death, Resurrection

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Kings, Luke

    When drought and death threaten to destroy us, God will bring us through the barren times and raise us back to life, for doing so is the defining sign of God’s presence.

  • 23 May, 2010

    The Invitation of the Pentecost Miracles

    Preacher: Andrew Woff

    Topic: Church, Holy Spirit, Liberation

    Scripture: Acts

    God invites us to say “yes” to the Spirit, to be open to seeing ourselves beyond the constraints others place on us and to be open to forming new community with God and with God’s 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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