Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

Whether at McDonald’s, Hungry Jacks or some other takeaway joint, you can expect a meal deal of some sort. It’s the same with internet plans. It seems everything is ‘bundled’ these days. Whether we realise it or not, life is also like a package deal. A songwriter,...

In the Book of Acts, Dr Luke does a wonderful job of sharing how the early believers used their time. Sometimes it seems everything was happening at once. Take the day of Pentecost, for example. I have wondered just how the disciples and their friends handled the...

The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock) is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Plain in Luke (6:46–49) as well as in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew (7:24–27).  It illustrates the importance of building...

Luke 6:27-36 Before you read on, please be warned that you might find part of the content of this article distressing as it is about child sacrifice attacks in Uganda. I recently came across a story about a Christian lawyer by the name of Bob Goff. One of his passions...

Early in the week in my devotional, I was reading Mark 13 and it got me thinking about Ian’s sermon last Sunday, “Grander Vision Living” (if you haven’t heard it, go to our website). Jesus was about to leave the Temple in Jerusalem when one of his disciples remarked...

The story in Luke 5:1-11 begins with Jesus borrowing a boat belonging to a fisherman named Simon (a.k.a the apostle Peter) so he could teach God’s word to crowds of people. After he finished speaking, he decides to go fishing with Peter, except he  gives...

Lessons from Zacchaeus Zacchaeus was a wee little man,And a wee little man was he.He climbed up in a sycamore treeFor the Lord he wanted to see.And as the Saviour passed that way,He looked up in the tree,And He said, “Zacchaeus, you come down!For I’m going to your...

This week, we begin a new sermon series based on Bill Hybels’ book, Just Walk Across the Room. At its heart, this series is about embracing the simple yet profound act of stepping out of our comfort zones to connect with others. It’s a call to live out the love...

Have you ever read the gospels and thought to yourself, “Gee, I wish you didn’t say that Jesus”. Several weeks ago my devotional reading was on Matthew 15:21-28 in which Jesus said things that if repeated in our day, would be considered scandalous and would have gone...

“In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying in bed.  He wrote down the substance of his dream.”  Daniel 7:1 I’ve been reading Pete Greig’s book, *How to Hear God*. His chapter...