Nathan has been a pastor of our Church since 1994.
The challenge of relinquishing selfish desire is a crucial key to a deeper journey into the life of Christ.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons by Nathan Nettleton (Page 34)
The Bible highlights the consequences of the world’s unjust economic system, and we, as the church, are called to find ways of living out our prayer for justice.
The sexy bits of the Bible point to an understanding of the sacramental nature of sexual intimacy.
The forces seeking to destroy any chance of real Christian living are formidable, but so are the weapons God gives us.
The measure of the value of our worship is the measure of the transformation of our lives.
Praise and prayer enable us to find our true identify in Christ, and it is as we find out who we are that we find our true strength.
What God has done and is doing is cause for celebration.
We need to be willing to hear truth whether it comes from an expected source or an unexpected source.
Self sacrifice and asceticism are not incompatible with the call to care for oneself and live life to the full.
You can’t define or dictate how people will experience God, even within the service of worship.
The extent of God’s grace constantly astounds us as it floods over ever social barrier we erect.
Encounters with the risen Christ open our minds rather than narrow our theology.
Jesus will meet us where we need to be met in order to inspire our faith.
Forgiveness is the voluntary relinquishment of the right to desire revenge or reparation.
Knowledge can be used to destroy or to liberate. In Jesus we see one whose teaching and actions are an integrated liberating message.
Although the choice to repent can be characterised in black and white terms, it usually feels like a choice for one risky joy over several safer ones, but it’s worth it!
We are called to proclaim and celebrate the advent of God’s justice, and doing so is ultimately more radical than simply fighting injustice.
Although the coming Christ is brings our deepest hopes to fulfillment, we still fear his coming because of our unhealthy investments in the present.
Each human being is an icon of Christ and so the respect and care with which we deal with others is an expression of our devotion to Christ.
Icons, as representations of the incarnation rather than images of God, can serve to open us to God rather than becoming alternatives to God.