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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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10 November, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Love, Marriage, sex
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Genesis, Luke
The biblical pictures of marriage reflect our struggle to live our way into the vulnerable intimacy and relational fruitfulness that God wants for us and with us.
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3 November, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Grace, Hospitality, Humility, Jesus, Love, Salvation
Scripture: Luke
Christ’s gratuitous forgiveness and acceptance always manage to scandalise us, but it is our willingness to embrace them that saves us.
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27 October, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Forgiveness, Grace, Humility, Jesus, judgement, Law, Repentance
Scripture: Luke
God delights to welcome everyone, and is not interested in who is better or worse, but we imagine God to be an elitist who mirrors our tendency to pick and choose and only accept the best.
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20 October, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Authority, Bible, Discernment, Faithfulness, Law, Love
Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Jeremiah
Reading scripture with God’s people keeps us honest as we seek to interpret and live by God’s law written on our hearts.
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13 October, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Hope, Incarnation, Jesus, Politics
Scripture: Jeremiah
When God calls us to invest in the places we live, it is a call to active agents of positive change, not compliant patriots.
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29 September, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Depression, Fear, Grief, Healing, Jesus, Resurrection, Suffering
Scripture: 1 & 2 Timothy, Jeremiah
There are plenty of reasons to despair of the future, but Jeremiah and Jesus show us a pathway of hope that overcomes despair.
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22 September, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Depression, Faithfulness, Fear, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Suffering
Scripture: Jeremiah
Facing an epidemic of depression and despair, Jesus calls us to follow on a tear-stained path of prophetic faithfulness.
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15 September, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Apocalypse, Conversion, Creation, Politics, Salvation
The threat of extreme climate change can only be averted with a major spiritual transformation, and Jesus shows the way.
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1 September, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Discipleship, Faithfulness, Forgiveness, Jesus
Faithfulness to God means sticking to the ways in which Jesus has led us, but we are constantly tempted to idolise his name while avoiding his ways.
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18 August, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faith, Faithfulness, Hope, Hospitality
Lived faith is the way to life in God, but it passes through a baptism of fire.
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30 June, 2019
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Anger, Apocalypse, Grace, Hospitality, Jesus, Reconciliation, Repentance
The instinct to call down fire on those we perceive as God’s enemies is a “fruit of the flesh” that must be supplanted by the fruits of love.
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16 June, 2019
The God revealed to us in Jesus and experienced through the Holy Spirit is so dynamic and multi-facetted that we may find it hard to believe that we are always dealing with the one God.
