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Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
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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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2 February, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Children, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Formation, Healing, Humility, Jesus, judgement, Leadership, Unity
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus calls us to follow his lead in bringing healing, hope and positive leadership to others, and not to be too worried about anxious and vexatious criticism.
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26 January, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Hope, Jesus, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Isaiah, Matthew
Jesus calls us to neither conservatism nor iconoclasm, but to a faithful reckoning with the gifts and the sins of the past as we welcome and adapt to the new.
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19 January, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Humility, Law, peace, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Matthew
Godly love and respect doesn’t prevent disagreements in the church community, but it should enable us to address them without having to call in the lawyers.
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5 January, 2020
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Christmas, Fear, Grief, Hope, Incarnation, Suffering
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
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29 December, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Joshua, Matthew
When God is moving to do something new among us, it almost always seems scandalous, immoral and offensive to many, and is just as likely to involve those who are regarded as morally suspect.
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24 December, 2019
The Christmas stories assure us that Jesus is the one who brings light into our darkness.
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22 December, 2019
Faithful waiting for for the fulfilment of God’s promises can leave us feeling compromised and alienated in the world around us.
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15 December, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Matthew
The coming kingdom culture confronts the world’s violence by redemptively suffering and absorbing it, not by reciprocating it with even greater violence.
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8 December, 2019
The imminent arrival of God’s messiah asks each of us to take up the identity of witnesses who open the way for God to be known.
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1 December, 2019
We can face the unknown future with confidence because we know that the one who holds the future loves us and can be trusted.
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24 November, 2019
The culture of God’s beloved Son is born at the cross and takes root amidst a hostile world, spreading forgiveness and hospitality.
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17 November, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Discipleship, Evil, Jesus, judgement, peace, Sacrifice
Global chaos marked by war, terror and injustice is growing inevitably, and as followers of Jesus we stand in witness against it, knowing that God is with us to the end.
