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    • Participants’ Guide
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Sermons

  • 6 April, 2008

    Can’t See the Wood for the Trees

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discernment, Resurrection, Worship

    Scripture: Luke

    Christ is so present we loose the ability to see him. We need to worship to recover our sight.

  • 24 February, 2008

    When Jesus sees through you

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Formation, Jesus, Liberation, Spirituality

    Scripture: John

    When Jesus sees us for who we really are, we are enabled to see ourselves for who we really are, without boxes and labels, and so be saved to become who we were created to be.

  • 17 February, 2008

    A New Start in the Great Unknown

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Conversion, Discipleship, Pilgrimage, Repentance, Vocation

    Scripture: Genesis, John

    God calls us to new beginnings, and we have to let go of old certainties to embrace them.

  • 10 February, 2008

    Temptation – the glory of being human

    Preacher: Jude Waldron

    Topic: Discernment, Incarnation, Temptation

    Scripture: Matthew

    Jesus full humanity meant that temptation was real for him, as it is for us. Temptation is not in itself bad, but indicates to us that we have a gift of choice.

  • 27 January, 2008

    This Foolishness is our only Hope

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Crucifixion, Reconciliation

    Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Matthew

    The message of the cross cuts against everything that would divide us from one another, and so cuts against everything that would drive us out.

  • 16 December, 2007

    Are You the One?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Formation, Grace, Hope

    Scripture: Matthew

    The coming Christ will accomplish his purposes, which will be the best for us but may conflict with what we want from him.

  • 9 December, 2007

    That you may Abound in Hope

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Hope, Hospitality, Love, Mercy

    Scripture: Isaiah, Matthew, Romans

    God’s merciful and all-inclusive love is steadfast, not arbitrary, and so fills us with hope in the coming Christ.

  • 2 December, 2007

    Where is it all heading?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Apocalypse, Hope, Jesus

    Scripture: Matthew

    Amidst the variety of opinions about the Coming Christ, there is a real message of hope that reshapes our lives.

  • 4 November, 2007

    Growing in Faith and Love

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Faith, Formation, Love

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Thessalonians

    Growth in faith and love come as we work through tough times together for God.

  • 1 November, 2007

    Only for Saints?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Saints

    Scripture: Luke

    Living the beatitudes is far to lightly dismissed as being “only for saints”, but Christ calls us all to live as saints.

  • 28 October, 2007

    The Pharisee, the Tax Collector and Joel

    Preacher: Ian Cook

    Topic: Apocalypse, Forgiveness, Salvation, Sin

    Scripture: Joel, Luke

    We are bringing upon ourselves a global catastrophe, but the prophet Joel assures us that ultimately God will save his people.

  • 21 October, 2007

    The Work of an Evangelist

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Evangelism, Hospitality, Spirituality

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy

    In the face of a plurality of spiritualities, Jesus calls us to respectfully but urgently and persistently bear witness to the good news.

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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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