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Stephen
Another good post at Anglicans Online, this time about Stephen, whose feast day is today. Poor St Stephen, not only the first martyr to Christ but also the first martyr to Christmas, his feast day lost...
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The Christian Adventure
A sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter It was a real delight for me to have Bishop Jane preach here last weekend, but the downside was that I didn’t get to preach my Easter sermon! Still, I will take...
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Seeking God and Finding Jesus (a sermon on Acts 10)
C.S. Lewis tells a story of how one day he had a persistent feeling that he ought to go and get his hair cut, even though it was not very long since the last time he had done so. Eventually he gave in...
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Custody Chaplains
From the website of the Diocese of Bath and Wells: The latest step has come at the request of the Police for us to provide a team of ChAt (Chaplaincy About Town) Custody Chaplains to visit any detainee...
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‘The evangelism you don’t plan’– more lessons from a master…
David Hansen has a phrase in his superb book, ‘The Art of Pastoring‘: ‘…the evangelism you don’t plan, that always works better than the evangelism you do’. I thought about that today as I was...
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The patron saint of relational evangelists
Reblogged from last year. In the church’s calendar we often celebrate special feast days to remember ‘saints’ – people from Bible times or afterwards whose lives have been especially Christlike. We do...
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Baptism in the Holy Spirit
I’m starting to think about my sermon for this coming Sunday. It’s the day in the church year when we tell the story of Jesus’ baptism (the ‘Feast of the Baptism of the Lord’, as we call it). But...
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Do Lifelong Churchgoers Need a Crisis Conversion?
If a person is raised in a Christian home, do they need to have a personal conversion? Or will they just grow gradually into faith through watching and listening to their parents and other people in...
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Faith and Depression
Incredibly moving blog post from Katharine Welby. The bible is my key. Reading the psalms (that oh so regularly quoted ‘you can yell at God, look’ book) I find that I don’t need to have hope every...
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Pentecost
My Dad described this experience to me a long time ago, and I included it in my book ‘Starting at the Beginning’ (now out of print I’m afraid): On Shrove Tuesday 1971, I was part of an ecumenical...
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‘Love Bade Me Welcome’
Tonight I read Christian Wiman’s account of a part of his faith journey. Here’s an extract: Then one morning we found ourselves going to church. Found ourselves. That’s exactly what it felt like, in...
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Reed Fleming’s blog
I hope that all my readers make regular trips over to Reed Fleming’s blog. Reed is an old friend of mine – we first met in 1978 – and we served together in the ‘Church Army in Canada’, which is now...
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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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Charles Simeon
Today in the calendar of many Anglican churches we remember a fastidious, highly eccentric aristocrat who, after his death, was described as having had ‘a far greater influence in the Church of...
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Edmonton
Here is Bishop Jane Alexander’s invitation to the Anglican community in the Diocese of Edmonton to be part of the upcoming meetings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission:
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Walking to Emmaus with Jesus (a sermon on Luke 24:13-35)
We sometimes sing an old worship song around here that goes like this: ‘Open our eyes, Lord, we want to see Jesus, to reach out and touch him, and say that we love him. Open our ears, Lord, and help...
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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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The gospel on the street
I’ve been spending this past weekend with the remarkable people of Street Hope Saint John. When I say ‘remarkable people’, you might be a little surprised. Most of them struggle with addictions of one...
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David and the Patience of God (a sermon on the story of David)
Years ago when I lived in Valleyview, one of the members of my church decided to do something he had never done before: read the Bible all the way through. He was quite excited about this. He had a...
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Why Am I A Christian? – Part 1
A good question for all Christians to ask themselves sometimes is ‘Why am I a Christian?’ Atheist writers have sometimes challenged us by saying, “Your faith is predetermined by the fact that you grew...
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