Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

In Acts 16, we have the apostle Paul leading a team for the first time to disciple believers in their faith and to disciple unbelievers to faith. One night, Paul received a vision from God of a man begging him to come over to Macedonia (vs 9). This encounter led Paul...

Luke 10:1-7 If we are to make disciples as Jesus commands, it makes perfect sense that we take a leaf out of his book. That’s because his discipleship approach/model contains cross-generational truths which can be applied to our context and one of those truths we see...

...And so, we reach the first Sunday in Lent. But what does it mean to the average Baptist? Does Lent have a place in our worship of Jesus? We Baptists don’t usually take Lent seriously. As a child, I saw it as something Roman Catholics and Anglicans did, often just...

finances, friendships, church, rest, health — we’re trying to keep a lot of balls in the air. And if we’re honest, we drop them… sometimes or often.  Many of us would say, “I’m a Christian”, but always feel like we are not meeting this “standard”. We love...

In Matthew’s gospel, we have an account of Jesus going to towns and villages, teaching, preaching to everyone who will listen and healing every disease and sickness. As he looked out to the crowds, his heart broke and was filled with compassion for them, ‘because they...

A great line, isn’t it? I wish I came up with it but then I’d get a big head so just as well I didn’t! It’s a tagline from a church website and it encapsulates the core mission and vision of Christian discipleship. Jesus expressed it this way when he called his...

As the end of year fast approaches has there been a significant learning experience this year for you? For me, I have been pondering on something I experienced having spent the first part of the year in Iraq, living in a Yazidi village. One of the things I have missed...

At our recent Youth and Young Adults Christmas party, we watched the Christmas movie ‘Elf’. In it, the main character, Buddy, shares three simple rules for spreading Christmas cheer:  Treat every day like Christmas. There’s room for everyone on the Nice list. The...

(Romans 5:8b) Recently Sue and I reflected on a former colleague from a Christian organisation with whom we had invested significant effort to build a positive working relationship. As her supervisor, I ensured she had autonomy and support, intervening only when...

‘Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade…’ (1 Peter 1:4) In her...