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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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24 May, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discipleship, Fullness of Life, Jesus
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John
When we encounter Jesus, we are seeing the truth about God and the truth about life as it is meant to be lived. To embrace that truth will put us at odds with the world, but on the pathway to fullness of life.
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17 May, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Justice, Love, peace, Reconciliation
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, John
The knowledge that we are loved by God and the tenacious sharing of that love break the power of the world’s systems to lock us in to destructive cycles overwork, over consumption, and compliance with injustice and war.
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10 May, 2009
The risen Christ and his word are often revealed in the words and actions of a stranger. Sometimes we are called to welcome and heed the stranger; and sometimes we are called to be the faithful stranger to others.
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26 April, 2009
Faith in the risen Christ is always a physical thing, experienced and expressed in physical ways.
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29 March, 2009
Jesus’s unique priesthood ensures that he is able to help us, and his solidarity with us in suffering ensures that he will help us.
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22 March, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Culture, Fullness of Life, Jesus, judgement, Liberation, Love, Salvation
God’s love for us is so great that God will do anything to give us a way out of the self-condemnation and self-destruction of continuing to live in conformity with the world’s ways.
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15 March, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: John
Jesus is angered by our trivialising of religion that inoculates us against the claims of a holy God, and calls us to clean out the crassness and commercialism and approach God on God’s terms.
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22 February, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Discernment, Discipleship, Fullness of Life, Jesus, Service
Scripture: Mark
When we glimpse the fullness of what could be, we are called to the tough work of bridging the gap between here and there.
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15 February, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Scripture: Psalms
The unfailing love of God is with us, even in the tragedy, confusion, and anguished questions and doubts.
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8 February, 2009
God is with us to comfort and revive us in the face of horror, but also to challenge us to turn things around.
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1 February, 2009
Jesus meets us with not just words of hope, but with actions of authority and integrity.
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4 January, 2009
Preacher: Nathan Nettleton
Topic: Incarnation, Jesus, Reconciliation, Salvation
We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.