Nathan has been a pastor of our Church since 1994.
Extravagant grace can be terrifying because it asks nothing of us but a complete change of life!
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons by Nathan Nettleton (Page 31)
God consistently favours love and acceptance over purity, so when we are not sure, it is better to take a risk on love and acceptance.
It is always a shock to realise just who Jesus is and what he’s on about.
A modern paraphrase of the Nativity Sermon of St John Chrysostom, first Preached in Antioch in 386AD
In baptism, we have passed from the preoccupations of the present to the a life shaped by God’s future, and though the completion of that transformation may be painful, it is nevertheless the fulfilling of our deepest longings.
Religious ritual and ethical living are both bound up together in the journey of following Jesus into the Realm of God.
Christ is sacramentally present to heal and forgive when his people are open, honest and vulnerable with one another in seeking healing for their sickness and suffering.
Making the Church in the incarnate body of Christ is costly for God, and both challenging and salvific for us.
The answers to the questions about our future directions are not easy, but we can trust the God who holds our future in his hands.
The resurrection has broken open many old certainties, and our ethics must now be grounded in the new things God is doing, characterised by radically inclusive love, rather than in the old restrictions.
The message that salvation is exclusively in the hands of the risen Christ may be unfashionable, but it is the only message of salvation we have to offer.
The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
As the victim of the ultimate in human evil, the risen Christ is the One who can offer the complete forgiveness, to us, and through us to the rest of the world.
Christ crucified is both a sign of the ultimate consequence of evil, and of the ultimate victory of Christ over evil through the power of suffering love.
What God has promised, God will make good on, no matter what the apparent obstacles, and our job is simply to set about cooperating with the promise-maker rather than with the obstacles.
The Transfiguration points us back to Jesus’ baptism and forward to his resurrection, and reiterates that the only way from one to the other is the way of the cross.
God has bound pastors and people together in Christ, that we might share in the ultimate victory of Christ as all God’s promises are fulfilled.
We are called to take sides in a conflict between the prophet of love and peace and the prophets of hatred and violence.
A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by St Leo the Great.
The Advent season is a gift that illumines our present with light from our promised goal, to shape us as a people of patient and vigilant faithfulness.