Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

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...

With our ‘Thanksgiving’ month concluding on Sunday, I thought I’d offer a final reflection on thanksgiving. I suspect that many of us would not think of ourselves as ungrateful but you might want to think again because ingratitude shows up in our lives in a variety of...

I’ve always been amazed at the imagery present in the Bible and how so many parallels exist between the Old and New Testaments.  The Book of 1 Peter contains some stunning examples. In 1 Peter 2:4, Christ is the “living stone”, the foundation on which the church...

Be truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahead, even though the going is rough for a while down here. 1 Peter 1:6 This week I’ve been listening to an audiobook reporting interviews with Ukrainian civilians on their roles in the ongoing war effort. One particular story...

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention” (Oscar Wilde) Back in the early 1930s, William Stidger, a well-known American author and minister, who published twenty-two volumes of prose and two of poetry was hanging out with a group of...

One of the most popular mantras in our current culture is, ‘Be true to yourself’ or ‘Follow your heart’. One of the more recent and trendy version is ‘You do you’. There is a gym in the heart of Brisbane’s CBD that uses the slogan, “Be Fit. Be Well. Be You”. One...

‘God Goes to the Movies’ is a challenging preaching series as the task of cultural analysis is a complex one. There is a lot to consider that makes up culture, and even more how people respond to culture as well. Perhaps we can easily underestimate how different...

Do you have anyone in your family, frontline or community that just rubs you up the wrong way...every time? Or maybe they frustrate you more often than not! Or you get annoyed constantly by what they say and do? Or maybe you feel judged by them no matter how hard you...

One of the biggest movies of 1994, besides ‘The Lion King’ was ‘Forrest Gump’. It won six Academy Awards, one of which was for ‘Best Picture’. It follows the life of a man from Alabama who displays traits symptomatic of Autism Spectrum Disorder and suffers from...

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,...