Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

Conversations serve various purposes both conscious and subconscious. We can have heart-to-heart or head-to-head conversations. In Luke 24:13-35 the conversation seems to be a way of dealing with grief as well as passing time on the two-hour walk from Jerusalem to...

Early morning upon waking is when I tend to entertain fears. My antidote? I usually summon up courage and perspective through prayer and the Bible verses I know. We live in a world increasingly in need of antidotes for fear. Wars and conflicts, death, disease, sin and...

In the1960s I followed the Apollo space program with interest. Then came the greatest flight of all – to the Moon! Students were sent home from school to watch the amazing event, the culmination of so many years’ planning and coordination. But soon even space travel...

Last week I wrote an article reflecting on what I learnt from a course I took at Malyon, ‘Leading the Small Church’. Namely, that small churches have the unique opportunity to leverage authentic relationships, establish a godly culture and to remember the rich...

This week I took part in a subject at Malyon for professional development, ‘Leading the Small Church’ with Ian Hussey. Here is some of what I found interesting and thought to share this week: Small Churches are unique in that there is an emphasis on relationship,...

Have you ever had something of such worth that you needed to find a ‘special place’ to put it? Maybe you wish you had something of such worth, but you still think about where you would put it to keep it safe? Research has some great ‘safe places’ for worthy items:...

All us have favourite Bible passages we are drawn to and not so favourite Bible passages we avoid, such as this one in Luke 14:26. Jesus is speaking, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters,...

One of my all-time favourite Bible verse is from 2 Corinthians 5:21: “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God”. He went from riches to rags so we can go from rags to riches. “Thank you, Lord!” Below is a...

Shema Yisrael is a Jewish prayer (known as the Shema) that serves as a centrepiece of morning and evening Jewish prayer services.  It comes from Deuteronomy 6:4 and following.  In this, Moses utters one of the most important revelations of God’s identity:...

What a question! I asked this to the Youth the other day and they responded along the lines: ‘something we don’t deserve’, ‘forgiveness’ and ‘favour when you shouldn’t get it’. They were right! In the simplest way, God’s gift is grace for the undeserving sinner. But...