Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

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...

Suffering as a Christian: Why it Matters Most of us don’t like the word suffering. We avoid it, pray against it, and often assume something has gone wrong when hardship comes. But Peter writes to believers facing real pressure—misunderstanding, exclusion, even...

Recently, Scripture Union’s Daily Bread has been studying the book of Exodus. As we looked at Chapter 40 (the construction of the Tabernacle), I noticed something very special. The Tabernacle was a portable structure that held the official items of worship. God had...

(Condensed article by Glena Marshall) I was 34 when I used the word ‘chronic’ in front of the word ‘pain’ for the first time. I said it in a small voice, wondering if five years of suffering was long enough to merit the phrase. When this door of suffering opened...

I was intrigued initially when I saw Ian’s sermon title for this Sunday, ‘The S word’. What could it stand for? Didn’t take long to find out. The passage he will be unpacking from 1 Peter 3:1-7 is all about ‘submission’ in the context of marriage. In Australia, one in...