Nathan has been a pastor of our Church since 1994.
Self sacrifice and asceticism are not incompatible with the call to care for oneself and live life to the full.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons by Nathan Nettleton (Page 34)
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.
Christian progressives must not despise those who feel insecure about change, and Christian conservatives must not despise those who take new ways.
Christians are to be known for what they do rather than what they abstain from.
Embodied in all creation, God labours to bring to birth a new creation and the children of God.
Flesh and matter are means of communion with God, but to set the mind on them for their own sakes denudes them of value and us of dignity.
Sin seeks to enslave our bodies, but if we will take on Christ’s yoke we are incorporated into Christ’s body for redemption.
Christ has come that we might have fullness of life, and it has cost him dearly.
A paraphrase of this ancient sermon, still preached every Easter in many Eastern Orthodox churches.
No matter how dead something is, if the Spirit of God enters, there will be new life.