Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

I can’t help but feel sorry for Jeremiah. At a young age, God handed him the toughest assignment there is, that of delivering His message to a people who no longer even acknowledges their sin much less see their need to repent before God. In response, they tried to...

If one were to measure success in ministry in terms of the number of ‘likes’ and ‘followers’, then Jeremiah was a flop! No one liked him nor the message he preached. That’s because over and over again, he lambasted the people of Israel for violating their covenant...

5 “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.  ...

Recently I visited a church in the rural town of Kingaroy. They were doing a sermon series on relationships and on that particular Sunday, it was about friendships. I took notes because I wanted to remember what the Pastor said. Qualities in friends to avoid:...

In the final episode of her talk show in 2011, the influential Oprah Winfrey said to her audience that they see themselves as worthy. She repeated a phrase, mantra-like to them: ‘You are worthy’. If you are on any mindfulness, relationship counselling, self-care...

Another day, another report of a shooting in the US. This time it happened at a grocery store in a small town in Arkansas at around 11:40am on 21 June. It was at least the third mass shooting at a U.S. grocery store in the last three years. The gunman first opened...

Speaking of “going to the movies”, as we have the past few weeks, I saw the movie, The Way about seven years ago. It’s about an American father, Dr Thomas Avery (Charlie Sheen), who travels to France to recover the body of his estranged son, who died while travelling...

A rule I have had for years: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. He is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. DL Moody My morning routine recently blew up! A person living in Europe came on my work team of people mainly in North...

On 6 June, President Biden along with key U.S. allies gathered in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. led allied forces D-Day invasion of northern France. On this day in 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, launched...

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through...