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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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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.
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22 March, 2015
The glory of God is most fully revealed in Jesus’s willingness to suffer death at the hands of the law.
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15 March, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Love, Reconciliation, Sacrifice, Suffering
We are prepared to sacrifice and kill in the name of our God, but God is willing to be sacrificed and be killed to save us, even when we were enemies.
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1 March, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Faithfulness, Jesus, judgement, Liberation, Love
Jesus calls us to turn away from pathways of judgement and condemnation and to follow him on the harder path of love and new life.
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15 February, 2015
Expecting God to always appear as an exalted triumphant victor blinds us to the reality of God’s glory which is made known in suffering, self-sacrificial love.
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1 February, 2015
Jesus calls us to model a pattern of love and generous inclusion, and to avoid the demonic temptations of exclusion and pride.
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18 January, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: 1 Corinthians
Jesus leads us into a joyous and healthy way of living that avoids both constricting legalism and destructive libertarianism.
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4 January, 2015
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Christmas, Fullness of Life, Humility, Incarnation, Jesus, Reconciliation
God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.
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21 December, 2014
Joseph models a courageous willingness to be stripped of his sense of entitlement that he might become all God wanted him to be.
