Welcome to my small stake in cyberspace called Full of Grace and Truth, in honour of Jesus Christ whom John described in those words (John 1:14). I am privileged to be among those people called Christians who declare Jesus the central character of history, the source of life and the reason for being. He is ultimately real (Truth), as no one and nothing else is, and yet through his saving death and resurrection no one is beyond the scope of his gracious invitation to eternal fellowship with God.

This is a freshened-up version of a site I established nearly two decades ago for two purposes - to share through the written word, with whoever may care to ‘listen’, my perhaps doubtful wisdom on life, the world and God, and to make my audio sermons available mainly to  whichever church congregation I may be serving. This 'new' site continues in similar manner, though in the new circumstances of  retirement.

Age 67, husband, father, father-in-law, grandfather, retired Anglican minister. A few years into the phase of life called "retirement", after some 3 decades of formal pastoral ministry in local churches, most urban, some rural. Preacher, teacher, mentor, story sharer, encourager, facilitator, team player. After a few years' initial retirement in the rural southern part of the eastern Australian state of New South Wales, my wife and I are now settling into the community of Trentham, a rural tourist town in Victoria, the southern-most eastern Australian state.

Lance Lawton

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I’ve never consulted a geneticist to ask; but I suspect creative writing must be in my family genes somehow. My grandfather was an accomplished author and journalist; his father was owner-editor of a newspaper; and my daughter is a Media & Communications professional. I wrote poetry as a child, then stopped entirely (probably with the male machoism of puberty). The writing gift has been rekindled spontaneously in the past decade or so, which I attribute to God’s Spirit.