Nathan has been a pastor of our Church since 1994.
The hope that empowers us to maintain our counter-cultural obedience to Christ, is that the One who will eventually rule over all is the One who offers himself as a suffering servant of all.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons by Nathan Nettleton (Page 32)
The Coming Christ will reward and celebrate with those he finds having a go and making the most of all they have been given, not those who fearfully play it safe.
In the elusive quest to know Christ, spiritual disciplines are a valuable means, but can also easily degenerate into idols.
Those who insist that faith must satisfy their every ideology may miss out, while those who simply yoke themselves to Jesus will find the freedom and peace for which they yearn.
We voluntarily live a vowed life as a grateful response to God’s saving acts.
The world is full of offers of poisoned cups to quench our thirst, but Jesus offers us his own Spirit to sustain us in the wilderness.
We go out not to take Christ to others, but to meet Christ among them and reconnect his story and theirs.
Living as God requires may not make sense in the world, but God will make it worth our while.
The gifts we most need – a place of belonging and a place of sacred meaning – will be found when we offer them to others.
Joseph is an admirable model of the willingness to put calling and values ahead of convenience or reputation.
Hope is a courageous and active stance towards life which is nourished in those who attend to the voice of God in Scripture.
Faced with the callous injustice of the world, it takes tenacious trust in the vision of God’s just reign to survive.
Even those whose actions are morally indefensible usually have attributes that challenge our own failings.
Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.
Our liturgical expression of faith can nurture but not substitute for putting our faith into action.
In baptism we are joined to Christ and we now live as he leads, and celebrate the freedom of others to do so also.
The gospel calls us on a road to healing and wholeness, but its steps are so deceptively simple (which doesn’t mean easy) that we often don’t take them seriously and so don’t do them.
God sees us, the baptised, as having the appearance of Christ, which gives us reason to believe in ourselves and live up to it.
Following Christ may take us into costly confrontation with the powers of the world, and we cannot be protected from the costs of that, but Christ will bring us through to the land of promise beyond.
Our worship is a part of a cosmic liturgy of praise to the One who was slaughtered in reconciling a suffering universe to God.