Funeral Message for Angela Janice Richards, aged 1½

On Tuesday 14th July at 11am, I had the sad privilege of speaking the message at the funeral for my 1½-year old niece. The funeral was held at Kurrajong Anglican Church.Angela Janice Richards

Angela (1 November, 2007 – 9 July, 2009) had been suffering from a serious chromosomal abnormality all her life. You can read some of her story here.

The Bible passage (John 14:1-7) was read by Dominic Steele, a Christian minister and family friend of my sister and brother-in-law, who baptised Angie in hospital a short time before the first of her many operations.

Edit 17/7/09: The first ~4 minutes of the MP3 is Dominic giving a brief introduction and reading the passage. My sermon begins at about 3 min, 50 sec.

Funeral Address for Angela Janice Richards [ 18:49 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A special thanks to David Ould who provided invaluable feedback in the drafting stage of the talk.

16th July, 2009 | Category: Bible talks, Death, Extended family, John | 2 comments - be the next! - ()

Bronwyn speaks about submission in marriage

I recently preached on marriage from Ephesians 5:21-33 at our 7pm (Night Church) congregation of St Michael’s Anglican Church, Wollongong.

My own beautiful wife Bronwyn couldn’t be there – in fact, each Sunday evening she does a tremendous amount of work feeding, bathing and reading the Bible to 3 young kids all by herself to enable me to be there!

But I asked her what she’d have to say to Night Church about this issue? What might submission look like? She wrote a few thoughts down for me to read out. I commend the audio file to you, particularly her own comments.

29th June, 2009 | Category: Bronwyn, Ephesians | One comment so far - ()

Forget the Channel: a name for this site

I’ve been thinking about naming this site for a while. The new name, Forget the Channel, is taken from the final verse of the hymn ‘May the Mind of Christ my Saviour’ by Kate Barclay Wilkinson (apparently written before 1913, published in 1925):

May His beauty rest upon me,
As I seek the lost to win,
And may they forget the channel,
Seeing only Him.

The idea is that the site is designed to contribute to the vital task of seeing people come to a saving trust in Jesus Christ. If it furthers that end, it’s achieved its aim. If all it does is make people appreciate Lionel Windsor more, then it’s failed.

The name was suggested by my very beautiful wife, Bronwyn. It’s actually a song we sang while standing together at the Mid Year Conference for Campus Bible Study (University of New South Wales) in 1997, less than a week before I asked her out. We remember the song, because I had to ask Bronwyn what the words ‘forget the channel’ meant, and she patiently explained it to me. We were married eleven months later.

6th June, 2009 | Category: Bronwyn, General |

Same gorgeous wife, different name

She’s been wanting to do it since she was in year 3. Now she’s done it! My lovely wife has decided that she’d like to be known by her middle name, Bronwyn. She says:

I do prefer my middle name, and after 10yrs of marriage to Lionel we’re so over our names *still* being confused (much rather change the name, not the spouse).

NB this is not a change by deed poll and officially I’m still Leonie Bronwyn Windsor nee Harper. It will take time to stick and I don’t have the energy to enforce it by not responding to “Leonie”, but I’d appreciate your efforts. Thanx.

25th April, 2009 | Category: Bronwyn |

Christmas letter 2008

The Windsor family Christmas letter for 2008 is now available.

25th December, 2008 | Category: House of Windsor |

Batman reveals his identity

2nd April, 2008 | Category: Harry |

Spaghetti Face!

Spaghetti Face!

2nd February, 2008 | Category: Eleanor |

Christmas Letter 2007

The Windsor family Christmas letter 2007 is available as a PDF document with low resolution photos and high resolution photos.

25th December, 2007 | Category: House of Windsor |

Lion cub

Ellie our latest lion cub.

8th September, 2007 | Category: Eleanor |

Eleanor’s smiles

Ellie’s smiles are heartfelt and infectious.

20th May, 2007 | Category: Eleanor |
 
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