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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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23 September, 2018
Children are a sign of the Kingdom, and our capacity to welcome them is a measure of our capacity to welcome the culture of God.
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16 September, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Fullness of Life, Identity, Jesus, Repentance
When we commit ourselves to following Jesus, we surrender all our personal aspirations and our share in the aspirations of our nation, in order that we might receive the life of Christ.
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9 September, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Children, Hospitality, Jesus, Love, Reconciliation
Scripture: Mark
Jesus opens himself to the experience of those who are excluded and responds with a radical opening of the Table of God’s communion.
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2 September, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Fullness of Life, Gifts, Gratitude, Incarnation, Love, sex
Scripture: James, Mark, Song of Songs
Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.
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19 August, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Communion, Culture, Evil, Forgiveness, Jesus, Martyrdom, Reconciliation, Sacrifice, Salvation
Scripture: John
Jesus confronts us with our cannibalistic behaviour in order that we might follow him into a saving communion with God and one another.
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12 August, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.
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5 August, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Forgiveness, Grace, Humility, judgement, Repentance, Sin
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel
We are often blind to our own entanglement in evil, but when our eyes are opened, we are called into pathways of repentance and transformation that lead to life and healing.
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29 July, 2018
All of us, men especially, share responsibility for confronting and changing the culture that enables men to feel entitled to rape, and Jesus leads us into the new culture that sets us all free.
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22 July, 2018
Our common access to God through Christ breaks down walls of hostility, but we need to resist the universal impulse to build new ones.
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15 July, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians, Mark
Glimpses of the transformed world that God makes possible transfix us and leave us hungering for more.
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8 July, 2018
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Failure, Faithfulness, Fear, Grace, Hospitality, Humility, Identity, judgement, Unity, Virtues
Scripture: 2 Corinthians, Mark
Pretending to be better than we are alienates us from God and one another. Being open and real about our weaknesses and failures open us to God and one another.
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3 June, 2018
Jesus calls us to move beyond hostile identity politics, whether shaped by Sabbath keeping or #Outrage, and to welcome a new culture of love, forgiveness and welcome.
