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

Sermons

  • 1 October, 2000

    Chopping It Off

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Commitment, Discipleship, Formation, Repentance, Sin, Spiritual Disciplines

    Scripture: Mark

    Jesus is not calling us to self-mutilation, but he is saying that our efforts to root out sin in ourselves need to be as rigorous as it takes, even if it means appearing like a fanatic.

  • 24 September, 2000

    Getting Put in your Place

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Fullness of Life, Jesus, Sacrifice, Spiritual Disciplines, Spirituality

    Scripture: James, Mark

    The challenge of relinquishing selfish desire is a crucial key to a deeper journey into the life of Christ.

  • 10 September, 2000

    A Prayer-shaped Investment Strategy

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Bible, Discipleship, Economics, Justice, Prayer

    Scripture: Mark, Proverbs

    The Bible highlights the consequences of the world’s unjust economic system, and we, as the church, are called to find ways of living out our prayer for justice.

  • When The Bible Makes You Blush

    3 September, 2000

    When The Bible Makes You Blush

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Fullness of Life, Relationships, sex, Worship

    Scripture: Song of Songs

    The sexy bits of the Bible point to an understanding of the sacramental nature of sexual intimacy.

  • 27 August, 2000

    When all hell breaks loose

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Evil, Power, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Warfare

    Scripture: Ephesians

    The forces seeking to destroy any chance of real Christian living are formidable, but so are the weapons God gives us.

  • 13 August, 2000

    Putting you life where your mouth is

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Formation, Worship

    Scripture: Ephesians

    The measure of the value of our worship is the measure of the transformation of our lives.

  • 30 July, 2000

    Is Gratitude a Performance Enhancing Drug?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Gratitude, Identity, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines

    Scripture: Ephesians

    Praise and prayer enable us to find our true identify in Christ, and it is as we find out who we are that we find our true strength.

  • 16 July, 2000

    Wow!

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abundance, Gratitude, Liberation, Salvation, Worship

    Scripture: Ephesians

    What God has done and is doing is cause for celebration.

  • 9 July, 2000

    Shoot the Messenger

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Jesus

    Scripture: Mark

    We need to be willing to hear truth whether it comes from an expected source or an unexpected source.

  • 25 June, 2000

    Giving yourself away and looking after yourself

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Fullness of Life, Sacrifice, Spiritual Disciplines

    Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Mark

    Self sacrifice and asceticism are not incompatible with the call to care for oneself and live life to the full.

  • 18 June, 2000

    Trying to Pin Down the Experience of God

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Spirituality, Trinity, Worship

    Scripture: Isaiah, Romans

    You can’t define or dictate how people will experience God, even within the service of worship.

  • 28 May, 2000

    Do they let anyone in here?!!

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Hospitality, Jesus, Unity

    Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts

    The extent of God’s grace constantly astounds us as it floods over ever social barrier we erect.

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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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