Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

I thought I’d post excerpts of an article by Russell E. Gehrlein, which contains some reflections to help us consider how God’s purpose connects to our work as we continue to prepare our hearts to remember the birth of Jesus. First, Christmas is all about God sending...

As per my article last week, we are in a four-week Advent season leading up to Christmas, a period dedicated to reflective preparation for the coming of Christ to reconcile humanity and all of creation to Himself. However, Advent (which is derived from the Latin word,...

Today marks the first Sunday of Advent. It comes from an ancient Latin word adventus, which means coming. Advent – a four-week season leading up to Christmas – is an invitation to all of us to look back at God coming to us in Jesus to reconcile humanity and all of...

While writing this article I am listening to Christian Dixie Blues and have a tube of Cocoa Butter Hand Cream nearby on the desk. A weird combination…maybe?? It got me thinking though. What does hand cream do? It soothes and smooths dry skin. What does a chilled Blues...

Since retirement with more time spent talking with men, I realise we don’t know how to stop being so hard on ourselves. Whatever we do just doesn’t seem good enough. For example, in the maintenance group Will and I can never be the carpenter Tom is, Tom and I will...

Several years ago, a photo taken by Eric Smith, went viral. He took six shots showing a female humpback and her calf, surfacing two feet away, but a man was glued to his phone in every single shot even when three other people on his boat were all excitedly looking...

Some years ago I led a team to provide basic health care and whatever practical assistance within our means to a slum in India for several weeks. Just before Christmas, we organised a ‘party’ for the community. We preached the gospel and gave away presents to the...

Rebecca’s sermons have been interesting. In her first sermon, I found it a good reminder to think of God’s peace as it is described in the bible, shalom. I researched more and The Bible Project explains shalom from a perspective I hadn’t heard of before.  When we...

You may be aware that King Charles III and Queen Camilla are visiting Australia over the next few days.  Predictably this has resulted in various media stories about the relevance of the Constitutional Monarchy in modern Australia and debate about the move to a...

Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers (1 Timothy 4:16) In Christendom, there has always been a tension between the importance of ‘orthopraxy’ (life) and ‘orthodoxy (doctrine/teaching)....