Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

“The merest of breath…the merest of breaths. Everything is a breath” (Ecclesiastes 1:2) In short, the ‘Teacher’ of Ecclesiastes is saying, “Nothing lasts!” All the things you put enormous time, effort and money into, will not last. Your dream job has a use by date....

How was your 2023? Are you glad to see the end of it? Or do you not want it to end? How does it compare to the last few years? For me, as the year comes to a close, I like to look back over the 365 days and reflect on the good, the bad, the ugly, the confusing, the...

Our theme for 2023 has been, “Have faith in God.” At Christmas we see some wonderful examples of “people of faith” in the characters of the Christmas story. In around 1,000BC God promised King David a descendant who would one day bring real peace to the whole world –...

In Life Magazine, “100 People Who Changed the World” (2010), Jesus was listed at number 5 but based on votes on an independent website, he was ranked at number 63. Garnering more votes than Jesus include Roentgen (he discovered x-rays in 1895 and won the first Nobel...

We are day 8 into Advent, a four-week period in the church calendar, leading up to Christmas. It’s a time of waiting and reflective preparation for the hope-filled arrival of Jesus as a baby born in Bethlehem and his glorious return as King to rectify and to make all...

One of the best parts of our day after work is coming home to be greeted with joy and warmth by Charlie, our 8-year-old Shoodle (cross between a Poodle and Shi-Tzu). He’d be on his hind legs, balancing himself, while he reaches out excitedly with his two front paws,...

From this short preaching series, ‘The Hard Sayings of Jesus’, we realise there are a lot of hard sayings in the bible. They are often small phrases that are challenging, hard hitting, and convict us to live differently. But some, or most, might be ‘hard sayings’...

Do you wear headphones? Top reasons researchers found for the increase in public and workplace wearing of headphones include: · You can still be aware and not hear. · It is a great “don’t talk to me” signal. · To cancel the noise…of the public....

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God…(John 1:12) Evidently, Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. Insecurity about who we are is a significant...

I’ve been a Christian since 1979 and yet there is so much to prayer I know very little of or understand. I can tell you stories of God answering my prayers very quickly and sometimes, very unexpectedly. I also have stories of my prayers going unanswered. Praying has...