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Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Pastor
Nathan Nettleton
Nathan Nettleton has served as pastor of this congregation since 1994. He was ordained as a Baptist pastor that same year and completed an honours degree in theology at Whitley College in 1995, followed by a Master of Theology in Liturgical Studies from the University of Divinity in 2001. In our church, he carries particular responsibilities for the preaching, teaching, and ordering of worship and prayer, and for pastoral care. He also writes liturgical resources for a global audience through LaughingBird.net, and serves as a board member of Open Baptists. Nathan is married to Margie, and they have an adult daughter, Acacia, and two dogs.
Sermons by Nathan Nettleton
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28 January, 2024
Jesus overcomes the demonic powers which colonise our religious structures and thinking and which rob us of our freedom, integrity and life.
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21 January, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Bible, Compassion, Conflict, Empire, Grace, Reconciliation, Violence
Scripture: Jonah
The story of Jonah challenges us whenever we start thinking that we have special rights as God’s people.
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7 January, 2024
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Baptism, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mission, Service
In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.
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31 December, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
God reaches out to us through babies and elderly folks with a message of love and redemption that cuts through the theological justifications of empire and warmongering and calls us to peace.
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24 December, 2023
The the birth of Jesus we see the beginning of a peace mission that is not based on force but on patience, forgiveness and presence.
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17 December, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Formation, Hope, Identity, Service, Vocation
Discovering who we are called to be is an ever-evolving journey as we follow Jesus in changing circumstances.
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10 December, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Hope, Resurrection
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Isaiah, Mark, Psalms
Though we are to strive for righteousness and justice now, what we achieve now is a mere shadow of what will be fulfilled in the day of the Lord.
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26 November, 2023
Jesus calls us to a new world in which the lives of nations revolve around bringing the previously marginalised to the centre of our national way of being. Nations that fail to do that collapse into self-destruction.
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19 November, 2023
While many have a passive-aggressive relationship with God, the gospel gives us a vision of God that liberates us to live freely, expansively and joyously.
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12 November, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Bible, Empire, Identity, Oppresion, peace, Politics, Power, Suffering, Terror, Violence, War
Scripture: Joshua
Many parts of the Bible can be and often are weaponised as tools of oppression, but when we read it critically, with and through the teachings and example of Jesus, it calls us to liberation and life.
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5 November, 2023
We we allow God’s word to work in us, it lifts the burden of oppressive teaching from us.
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1 November, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Matthew, Revelation
Living the beatitudes is tough and dangerous, and we will need the inspiration and company of the saints, before us and beside us, if we are going to make it.
