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

Sermons

  • 8 February, 2009

    A Word from the Fire

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Apocalypse, Conversion, Hope, Jesus, Politics

    Scripture: Isaiah

    God is with us to comfort and revive us in the face of horror, but also to challenge us to turn things around.

  • 1 February, 2009

    With Authority

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Authority, Hope

    Scripture: Deuteronomy, Mark

    Jesus meets us with not just words of hope, but with actions of authority and integrity.

  • 4 January, 2009

    The Baby Who Brings Us Home

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Incarnation, Jesus, Reconciliation, Salvation

    Scripture: Ephesians, Jeremiah, John

    We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.

  • 24 December, 2008

    Today!

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Christmas, Hope

    Let us keep the festival by standing confidently, and affirming our faith in the God who takes flesh among us, today!

  • 7 December, 2008

    Peace and Justice Kiss

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Hope, Reconciliation

    Scripture: Psalms

    In God’s coming reign, things we find impossible to reconcile will be reconciled.

  • 23 November, 2008

    “I will lead my people”

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Authority, Jesus, Leadership

    Scripture: Ephesians, Ezekiel

    Jesus, the coming king, will rise above power mongering and tenderly lead the people into paradise

  • 2 November, 2008

    Delusions of Grandeur

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Hospitality, Humility, Leadership, Power

    Scripture: Matthew

    Christ uses his power to lift up others, but we are prone to misuse power to exalt ourselves.

  • 26 October, 2008

    Love, love and love

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Hope, Jesus, Love

    Scripture: Matthew

    Love is both a command and an eschatological promise. The promise undergirds our striving to obey the command.

  • 19 October, 2008

    Whose Image is This?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Fear, Greed, Identity, Jesus

    Scripture: Exodus, Matthew

    When greed and fear demand that we give our attention to money, Jesus calls us to reclaim the image of God within us, and offer ourselves to God.

  • 12 October, 2008

    No Jacket – No Entry

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Formation, Repentance, Salvation

    Scripture: Matthew

    There are no passengers in the Kingdom – those who accept the call must go on to clothe themselves in righteousness.

  • 5 October, 2008

    Covenant and Commandments

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Covenant, Gratitude, Law, Virtues

    Scripture: Exodus, Philippians

    The ten commandments are not a measure of our moral accomplishment, but a gift offered to God by a grateful covenant people.

  • 21 September, 2008

    Bread in the Wilderness

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abundance, Communion, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Gifts, Grace

    Scripture: Exodus

    The wilderness can seem harsh and threatening, but God is there, ready to nourish us with the bread of heaven.

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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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