Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

This week I learnt something amazing about Brazil nuts. They contain a diverse content of micronutrients, especially a high concentration of selenium (about 2,500 times the amount found in other nuts), a powerful antioxidant which has found to help stimulate the...

If you haven’t heard of the saying above, that’s because I made it up! Keep reading… It shouldn’t come as a shock to us that God loves to speak to us because two-way communication is very normal in any healthy relationship! He uses a variety of ways to do this. The...

Last year after seeing a clear answer to prayer, I paused, amazed.  Who am I that the Holy God should listen to me and allow Himself to be persuaded by my thoughts and desires?  And then I seemed to hear the echoes of His response:  “Who are you? ...

‘But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.’ Jeremiah 29:7 I’ve been noticing that God places us in neighbourhoods for His redemptive purposes. A neighbourhood...

While I had a shower on Thursday, I felt that I’m to write about the joy of the Lord being our strength. What does it mean? First, some context. The children of Israel who had been in exile in Babylon for 70 years finally return to Jerusalem. Zerubbabel and Joshua,...

Faith and work are often seen as separate but for Joe, nothing could be further from the truth. He is a firm believer that who he is and what he does outside the church is really important to God. In an interview, he shares how he integrates his faith and work...

A young man came to W. E. Gladstone (the second longest serving ex-Prime Minister of England back in the  mid-19th century) and said, “Mr. Gladstone, I would appreciate your giving me a few minutes in which I might lay before you my plans for the future. I would...

Being involved in the Lutheran Church during school, Lent is quite familiar to me. I can appreciate the tradition and practicing fasting in preparation for Easter.  This Lent, Sam and I are giving up entertainment and making the Bible the only thing we consume....

In Psalm 10:4 we read, “In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.”  Doesn’t this sound like the here-and-now?  We live in a world that values busy-ness and convenience; we can shop, bank, be entertained, and...

In 1987, the popular, global Irish rock band, ‘U2’ recorded their critically acclaimed hit song, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for”. The lead singer, Bono, referred to it as ‘a gospel song with a restless spirit, with its lyrics describing spiritual...