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  • Church Life
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    • Church Camp
    • Decisions & Governance
    • Participants’ Guide
  • Worship & Prayer
  • Sermons
  • Music
  • Cloud of Voices

Sermons

  • 2 July, 1995

    Losing your grip or loosing your grip

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Fullness of Life, Repentance

    Scripture: Luke

    Fullness of life is often dependent on letting go of all the things we thought were going to give us fullness of life.

  • 14 May, 1995

    How do you know a real Christian?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Hospitality, Jesus, Love, Reconciliation

    Scripture: Acts

    God breaks down all social barriers and differentiates between us on love alone.

  • 7 May, 1995

    Believe It or Not

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Faith, Resurrection

    Scripture: Acts

    Resurrection keeps happening despite our inability to believe.

  • 30 April, 1995

    What is Conversion?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Conversion, Jesus, Resurrection

    Scripture: Acts

    An encounter with the risen Christ can totally reorient our lives and our perceptions of the world.

  • 23 April, 1995

    Christ is Risen – So what’s next?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Jesus, Mission, Resurrection, Service

    Scripture: John

    Empowered by resurrection joy, we are sent to continue the mission of Christ.

  • 2 April, 1995

    What are we striving for?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Jesus, Love, Spirituality

    Scripture: John, Philippians

    Our goal is intimate union with Christ, and everything else in our lives as Christians will arise from that.

  • 26 March, 1995

    Look after your own, God!

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Faithfulness

    Scripture: Luke

    It is easy to lose appreciation for the benefits of faithfulness until we taste the alternative.

  • 19 March, 1995

    Shit Happens

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Grace, Suffering

    Scripture: Luke

    Suffering and prosperity are not punishments or rewards, but God’s grace may eventually be exhausted by those who squander it.

  • 5 March, 1995

    What does discipleship cost?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Discipleship, Love, Suffering, Temptation, Vocation

    Scripture: Luke, Matthew

    Jesus calls us to follow his lead in rejecting easy comfortable paths and choosing the tough road of costly active love.

  • 19 February, 1995

    How do we love those who have hurt us badly?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Abuse, Forgiveness, Love, Power, Reconciliation, Suffering

    Scripture: Luke

    Love for enemies is a response to God’s love for us, but in cases of huge hurt it is a community issue.

  • 11 February, 1995

    Getting the sermon off the Mount

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Blessing, Hope, Suffering

    Scripture: Luke

    God’s blessing is upon those who fully enter the pain of life and who hope beyond it.

  • 5 February, 1995

    Are we any use to God?

    Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

    Topic: Church, Healing, Mission

    Scripture: Isaiah, Luke

    God’s church is to be a place of cleansing and healing and preparation for mission.

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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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