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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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27 September, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Humility, Jesus, Purity, Virtues
Scripture: Mark
Jesus’s invitation is radically open and inclusive, and we need to guard carefully against our own culturally conditioned instincts to start narrowing and policing it.
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20 September, 2015
The things that make Jesus the perfect leader to lead us into new life are probably the same things that would make us turn our backs on him and seek to follow others.
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6 September, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faith, Fullness of Life, Jesus
God promises the best for us if we follow the way of Jesus, and faith is actively trusting that that pathway will indeed be the way of life.
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23 August, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Evil, Grace, Love, Reconciliation, Spiritual Warfare
En Cristo somos uno con toda la carne y la sangre, y por lo tanto nuestra lucha no es contra ningunas personas, sino contra los espíritus y los principados y los potestades que dividirían a la gente y les harían enemigos.
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26 July, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Abundance, Economics, Generosity, Grace, Jesus
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, John
Jesus rejects the opportunity to fulfil our hopes and expectations in order that he might give us more than we thought possible.
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19 July, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Empire, Hospitality, peace, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians
Building impressive buildings can be about a desire to monopolise and contain God, whereas God wants us to break down any walls that divide and exclude anyone.
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5 July, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Leadership, Power, Weakness
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, 2 Corinthians, Mark
God is most likely and able to work through those who accept their own weakness and don’t try to forcefully assert their own power and influence.
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28 June, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Fullness of Life, Grace, Healing, Hope, Jesus, Liberation, Weakness
Scripture: Mark
Despite our often minimal vision for ourselves, and our feeling of not being important to God, Jesus Christ is committed to bringing us to the fullness of life and wholeness.
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14 June, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Faithfulness, Hospitality
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, 2 Corinthians, Mark
God calls us to faithful expressions of the Culture of God which usually look unimpressive and unruly when judged by the world’s usual standards of success.
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7 June, 2015
Satan casts out satan all the time in our divisive attempts to protect ourselves by demonising and expelling others.
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17 May, 2015
We all have different roles within the ongoing ministry of Christ, but that ministry is ultimately not dependent on the success of individual leaders.
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26 April, 2015
We are not added to a particular church flock in order to be in the “right” group, but in order to learn, with Christ, to love others and lay down our lives for the world.
