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    • Participants’ Guide
  • Worship & Prayer
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Sermons

  • 6 August, 2006

    Bread and Circuses

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Economics, Food, Forgiveness, Fullness of Life, Liberation

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, John

    Jesus becomes a victim of our systems of feeding on one another in order to forgive us, set us free, and nourish us for life.

  • 23 July, 2006

    Seeking Healing

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Communion, Healing, Jesus, Spirituality

    Scripture: Mark

    When we recognise Christ’s presence in the Eucharistic liturgy, we will bring the sick in search of healing.

  • 9 July, 2006

    Making the Covenant – Making the Church

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Authority, Church, Covenant, Jesus

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel

    The church is formed when we ask Christ to rule over us and make a covenant with him to define the terms.

  • 25 June, 2006

    Against Overwhelming Odds

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Doubt, Hope, Spiritual Disciplines, Weakness

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Mark

    The Christian life is often lived against overwhelming odds, but the presence of Christ and some basic godly resources make it a good bet.

  • 18 June, 2006

    Feeling like a weed?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Culture, Hospitality, Jesus

    Scripture: Ezekiel, Mark

    The Kingdom of God grows like a weed – seemingly insignificant and unwanted – but it ends up with a place of refuge for everyone.

  • 11 June, 2006

    Questioning the Integrity of God

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Trinity

    Scripture: Isaiah, John, Psalms, Romans

    The God who we encounter in such different ways is, nevertheless, the one God, and we are called to share in the life of this one God.

  • 21 May, 2006

    Love: Make Yourself at Home in it

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Formation, Grace, Love

    Scripture: John

    Love is a gift which we invited to become at home in, receiving and enjoying it, not questioning, measuring and regulating it.

  • 7 May, 2006

    A personal response to Psalm 23

    Preacher: Alison Sampson

    Topic: Abundance, Faithfulness, Grace

    Scripture: Psalms

    Goodness and mercy are with us now – and we have to learn to accept them.

  • 30 April, 2006

    When the Victim Returns

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Jesus, Repentance, Resurrection, Violence

    Scripture: Luke

    The risen Christ confronts us with both the gruesome consequences of our violence and the terrifying shock of grace.

  • 15 April, 2006

    A Young Man in White

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Baptism, Resurrection

    Scripture: Mark, Romans

    The death of Christ strips us bare, but in his resurrection we are clothed in Christ and become participants in his resurrection life.

  • 2 April, 2006

    Give up and Grow

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Conversion, Grace, Power, Weakness

    Scripture: John

    God will do great things with us, but will not impose them on us, so we have to relinquish control before God brings about the growth we crave.

  • 5 March, 2006

    What God has given up for Lent

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Jesus, Lent, Temptation, Violence

    Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Genesis, Mark

    Violence must be a constant temptation for God, but in absolute love, God has vowed never to resort to it.

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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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