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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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4 June, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Holy Spirit, Love, peace, Reconciliation, Salvation
Scripture: Acts
The Spirit of Jesus unites us across previously hostile boundaries and teaches us a language of liberating love.
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21 May, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Grace, Hope, Jesus, Love, Resurrection
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, John
Following Jesus has nothing to do with trying to be good. His love and hope are gifts, rather than demands, and they free us to love and hope freely.
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14 May, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Acts
True martyrs are those who are killed because their love, truthfulness and forgiveness are intolerable, not those who die killing for their cause.
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7 May, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Faith, Grace, Hospitality, Jesus
Jesus gives us an abundance of all that we need, and when we learn to trust that, we are set free from rivalry and possessiveness and enabled to share generously.
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30 April, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Failure, Grace, Grief, Hope, Jesus, Reconciliation, Resurrection, Salvation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Luke
Meeting us on the road of despair, Jesus reveals to us that suffering and defeat are God’s means of bringing new life and hope.
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15 April, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Matthew
Jesus died an apparent failure, but in his resurrection, the failure’s power over us is broken for ever.
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2 April, 2017
Jesus calls us to believe that he is the resurrection and the life, not just in theory, but in relation to everything that is dead or dying within us.
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26 March, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Forgiveness, Grace, Healing, Jesus, Reconciliation, Sin
Scripture: John
Jesus subverts our concepts of sin and offers to open our eyes and free us from it all.
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19 March, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Conversion, Faith, Forgiveness, Grace, Jesus, Love, Salvation
Our deepest thirst will never be satisfied by cautious morality and religious compliance, but it will be abundantly quenched when we drink deeply of the living water of joyous intimacy that Jesus pours out freely.
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5 March, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Conversion, Discipleship, Humility, Lent, Temptation
Lent is a recurring reminder of the fragility of our discipleship in the face of tempting shortcuts and instant gratifications.
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26 February, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Church, Discernment, Evil, Failure, Faithfulness, Law
Scripture: 1 Corinthians, Matthew
While the final judgement of each individual is rightly left to God, we are called to ensure that we are found to be loving, merciful and trustworthy by the world around us.
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19 February, 2017
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Jesus, Love, peace, Reconciliation
Scripture: Matthew
Although often dismissed as utopian nonsense, Jesus’s teachings about non-retaliation and love of enemies are the key to the salvation of the world.
