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It’s her birthday today!
Happy birthday to my love Marci. P.S. Her hair’s not really white – it’s the sunlight! Photo taken at Fort Edmonton Park, May 19th 2014.
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Robert Eric Chesterton, December 5th 1931 – August 12th 2013
My Dad died of complications from Parkinson’s Disease on Monday evening at his home in Oakham, Rutland. I was about to leave Edmonton for Oakham in the hopes of spending a few last days with him, but I...
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One of my favourite pictures of my Dad
Taken in our garden in Leicester Forest East, I suspect in 1966 some time.
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More about my Dad
I want to go into a little more detail about my Dad. As I said in a previous post, my Dad, Robert Eric Chesterton (‘Bob’), was born in Leicester, UK on December 5th 1931. He was the third of five...
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Another old family photo
1967, aboard the ‘Empress of England’, about to leave for Canada and missionary service in the Arctic. My Dad and Mum, Mike and me, and Nana and Grandpa Taylor who had come to see us off.
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Joy and Suffering: A Sermon for my Dad’s Funeral
September 3rd 2013 Text: 1 Peter 1:3-9 I’d like to begin by thanking you all, every single one of you, for coming today for this very special service, as we give thanks to God for my Dad’s life and...
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Reflections inspired by mortality
So the day of my Dad’s funeral has come and gone. It seems strange, somehow; I’ve lived with the impending reality of this day for two or three years, since the day Dad asked me to preach at it, and...
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The Big Questions
Some years ago I attended a clergy conference at which we were discussing a rather esoteric document produced by, I believe, the Primate’s Theological Commission (non-Anglican readers should note that...
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Us and the grandkids…
This picture was taken a day or two after Kai was born, back in the summer. I’m putting it up here now so that folks who receive our Christmas e-letter can visit this post and nab it, if they so desire!
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Random Lent Thought for Saturday March 11th
I have absolutely no doubt that, over the years, family life has been by far the most effective tool in the hands of God for transforming me into a less selfish, more loving person. I am by nature a...
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We must not forget the price young people paid
It has been a hundred years this year since Horace Arthur Thornton was killed in action in France. He died near Bullecourt on July 27th 1917 and was buried at Croisiles British cemetery, Pas de Calais,...
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Reflections inspired by mortality
So the day of my Dad’s funeral has come and gone. It seems strange, somehow; I’ve lived with the impending reality of this day for two or three years, since the day Dad asked me to preach at it, and...
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Some years ago I attended a clergy conference at which we were discussing a rather esoteric document produced by, I believe, the Primate’s Theological Commission (non-Anglican readers should note that...
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Us and the grandkids…
This picture was taken a day or two after Kai was born, back in the summer. I’m putting it up here now so that folks who receive our Christmas e-letter can visit this post and nab it, if they so desire!
View ArticleRandom Lent Thought for Saturday March 11th
I have absolutely no doubt that, over the years, family life has been by far the most effective tool in the hands of God for transforming me into a less selfish, more loving person. I am by nature a...
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