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    • Decisions & Governance
    • Participants’ Guide
  • Worship & Prayer
  • Sermons
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Sermons

  • 25 March, 2007

    Getting Jesus Right

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Generosity, Jesus, Service, Spirituality, Wisdom

    Scripture: John

    Extravagant devotion to the crucified Christ is the foundation of our compassion and care for other victims of the world’s callousness.

  • 18 March, 2007

    Is God’s Grace Fair?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Hospitality, Pride

    Scripture: Luke

    God’s grace is lavished on all who will receive it, but some of those who have every right to it refuse to receive it unless they are singled out.

  • 25 February, 2007

    The Word is Near

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Evil, Formation, Lent

    Scripture: Deuteronomy, Luke, Romans

    The Catechumenate, and the annual Lenten journey, are about writing the Word of God into our hearts so that it can protect us from evil and bear fruits of righteousness.

  • 4 February, 2007

    Love Raised from the Dead

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Love, Mercy, Resurrection

    Scripture: 1 Corinthians

    The encounter with the resurrected crucified Jesus enables us to see the absolute love, mercy and non-vengefulness of God.

  • 14 January, 2007

    Getting It All Back To Front

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Conversion, Formation, Jesus

    Scripture: 1 Corinthians, John

    Recognising Jesus as Lord requires such a reversal of conventional values that it cannot but dangerously transform us.

  • 31 December, 2006

    Finding Jesus – Finding Ourselves

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Identity, Jesus, Spirituality

    Scripture: Colossians, Luke

    With Jesus as our pattern, we find a new identity in our uncompromising allegiance to God’s ways.

  • 26 November, 2006

    The Clash of Kingdoms

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Discipleship, Empire, Jesus, Politics, Power

    Scripture: John

    To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority.

  • 22 October, 2006

    Knowing Our Place

    Preacher: Keith Clements

    Topic: Creation, Gratitude, Hospitality, Love, Service, Stewardship

    Scripture: Psalms

    It’s our place to be within, and part of, creation and to love it as God loves it, and to learn to be ready to stand with others in their place of need.

  • 15 October, 2006

    Impossible?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Love, Suffering

    Scripture: Job, Mark

    The impossible love and grace of God invite us to participate in the life of God despite our circumstances, but we often get stuck in trying to find meaning in the circumstances.

  • 8 October, 2006

    Becoming as Children

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Conversion, Discipleship, Grace, Jesus, Weakness

    Scripture: Hebrews, Mark

    God offers to make us his children, a position that may not appeal to our autonomous ambitions, but which offers honour and security.

  • 17 September, 2006

    Being Part of the Solution

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Crucifixion, Discipleship, Jesus, Violence

    Scripture: Mark

    Jesus leads the way in exposing and opposing violence, no matter what the cost, and life is found in following his lead.

  • 20 August, 2006

    The Violence of Communion

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Communion, Sacrifice, Violence

    Scripture: John

    Jesus invites us to find our communion in the violence done to him instead of in doing violence to others.

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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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