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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3 September, 2023
Our true identity is only found when we discover that it is not about us, but that we are only truly anyone in relation to the God who is everything, and who is not the opposite of anything.
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25 June, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus did not come with the goal of making some gentle improvements to the status quo, but to disable the status quo by exposing its lies and revealing its victims. Without our culture being radically converted by that, the result is escalating chaos, to which Jesus offers himself as a victim and calls us to do the same.
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11 June, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Ethics, Faith, Fear, Healing, Purity, Righteousness
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus calls us to follow him in being a contagious force for love and mercy rather than fearfully quarantining ourselves from bad influences.
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21 May, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Hope, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, Spirituality
When God closes one chapter before opening another, the time in between is a time for prayer and entering into the life of God.
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18 May, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Jesus, Reconciliation, Resurrection, Salvation, Spirituality
Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.
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7 May, 2023
In the face of the cultural call for an all-tolerating lack of conviction, we are called to be a particular people who follow and champion a distinctive way – the way found in Jesus.
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30 April, 2023
Jesus’s purpose for us is that we (individually and collectively) have fullness of life.
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16 April, 2023
A comic monologue on the story of Doubting Thomas, presented in the style of “Fred Dagg” as a fan’s tribute to the late great John Clarke.
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8 April, 2023
It is only in light of the resurrection that we can comprehend the sin and death that we are being liberated from.
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26 March, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Formation, Grace, Grief, Healing, Resurrection, Spirituality, Suffering
Grief and suffering bring us close to the heart of the suffering God and can open us to God’s transforming and resurrecting power.
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19 March, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Evil, Fullness of Life, Liberation, Oppresion, Spiritual Warfare
There are forces conspiring to keep us in the dark, but Jesus opens our eyes so that we can see that our deepest yearnings are satisfied only in God.
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5 March, 2023
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Commitment, Conversion, Discipleship, Spirituality, Weakness
Being born of water and Spirit involves becoming as vulnerable and dependent on God as a newborn baby.

