Windsor Road Baptist Church blog

It is easy to say to someone who is struggling, "Just pray and ask God to help." This is always our best weapon, but how else can we help break through the thinking that gets us into our current headspace? Something that has helped me greatly is to hear others talk...

Last Sunday, Rebecca Foo started a four part sermon series on Faith and Mental Health.  As Rebecca stated at the outset, mental health is not specifically mentioned in the Bible.  But we can deduce from accounts of various biblical characters that they...

The term, “mental health” has been around since the mid-19th century but was not widely studied. However, in 1948 the World Health Organisation defined mental health as, “…a condition…which enables the individual to achieve a satisfactory synthesis of his (sic) own...

We made it! We finished the gospel of Luke! This Sunday we will hear about the final scene, Luke 24:36-53. One of the major motifs in the book of Luke is the idea of ‘journeying’. Travelling to and from Jerusalem, the time on the road, the time it takes in walking...

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:...