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Weekly teachings and insights from pastors & guest speakers of Windsor Park Baptist Church to grow, inspire & transform us. Find out more about who we are and how you can connect into our resources, messages and community here: https://windsorpark.org.nz/
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We’re so excited to celebrate the beauty of our diverse community this week with our Intercultural Service! Pastor Margaret Loh will be sharing a powerful message from Ephesians 4:1–6, exploring our cross-cultural calling to be One in Christ, unpacking the difference between simply being diverse and truly living as an intercultural community.
As we enter the final week of 2025, Pastor Caleb Finlayson is inviting us to pause and reflect on the year that's been, while also looking ahead with hope to the year to come. Together we'll explore where we've seen God at work, and where He might be inviting us to dream again. We'll unpack how throughout Scripture, God meets His people in unexpected ways — even through dreams — shaping the direction of their lives. As we consider where we may stand at the end of 2026, this moment reminds us ...
This week, Pastor Grant Harris continues our Advent series, Those Who Dream, with a message titled: The Dream That Saved Christmas. Preaching out of Matthew 2:1–12, we revisit the Nativity story and explore the journey of the Magi—well known for following the star, but also guided by a shared dream. After encountering Jesus, they are warned in a dream to return home by another way, ultimately protecting the Christ child. As we draw closer to Christmas, this message invites us to consider what...
This week Pastor Aidan Wivell and Caleb Finlayson bring us a podcast-style message as we continue our Advent series, Those Who Dream, with a sermon titled Living The Dream. We’re sitting down with one of Scripture’s great dreamers — Joseph, son of Jacob. Through a narrative interview, Joseph recounts his journey from favoured son to slave, prisoner, and eventually a leader in Egypt. Along the way he reflects on how God used seasons of hardship to shape his character, grow humility, and teach ...
This week we're starting our Advent series, Those Who Dream, with Pastor Holly Walton bringing us a message out of Mark 13:32-37 titled: Keep Awake. In this first message of our Advent series, we’re reminded that Advent invites us to live awake to God’s presence, just as the dreamers of Scripture did. Holly challenges us to resist spiritual drowsiness and instead notice God at work in ourselves, in others, and in the world around us. As we stay awake to both the beauty and the brokenness of ...
This Sunday, we’re honoured to welcome Naomi Cowan, CEO of Equip Mental Health Services, and Matt Strong, GM, for our annual Equip Sunday services. As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness Week, we’ll explore what it truly means to love one another deeply—and how genuine, supportive connection isn’t just good for the soul, but essential to our health and healing. Drawing from powerful stories, Scripture, and decades of mental health insight, Naomi and Matt share about how God calls us into relat...
This week, Pastor Grant Harris concludes Part One of our King & Kingdom Come series. Together we'll explore how in Luke 9:1-51, Jesus calls His disciples — and us — to move beyond simply admiring Him to truly following Him. We’ll unpack what it looks like to trust Jesus enough to step out, surrender, and actively participate in His mission. It’s a gentle, yet challenging invitation to take the next faithful step in our journey with Him.
Do you ever wonder what it truly looks like when heaven touches earth? In Luke 8, we see Jesus calming storms, healing lives, and bringing hope to the hopeless. In this message, Kevin McFetridge from Tearfund unpacks what it means to join Jesus in His mission today—reaching people, restoring communities, and letting compassion speak. Be inspired as we continue our King & Kingdom Come series, to step into God’s work here and now, and let His light shine through you.
This week, Pastor Grant Harris continues our King & Kingdom Come series with a message titled The Upside-Down Kingdom, from Luke 7. In this chapter, we encounter four stories that reveal a kingdom unlike any other — where Jesus is amazed by unexpected faith, restores the broken, meets doubt with grace, and inspires love through forgiveness. Together, these moments paint a picture of a kingdom that turns everything upside down, offering transformation for every life — even those that don’t...
This week Pastor Caleb Finlayson continues our King & Kingdom Come series, preaching out of Luke 6:17-49 with a message titled: Come, Hear, Do. Caleb will explore how Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain turns the world upside down, calling us not just to believe, but to act—to come close, hear His voice, and live differently. Like the wise builder who digs deep and builds on solid rock, true disciples let their faith shape everything they do. Are we willing to come, hear, and do?
Pastor Grant Harris continues our King & Kingdom Come series, speaking from Luke 5:1 – 6:11 on Jesus: The Disruptive Innovator. In these six powerful stories, Grant looks at how Jesus overturns society’s norms to reveal a kingdom that transforms lives and challenges the status quo. His disruptive actions angered the religious leaders, yet they carry deep spiritual significance for us today. Following Jesus often disrupts our comfort and conventions—what disruption might He be calling you ...
This week in our King and Kingdom Come series, Pastor Heather Ameye-Bevers explores Luke 4:14–44, where Jesus proclaims that God’s kingdom has come — a kingdom marked by freedom, healing, and restoration for all. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, we’re invited to join Him in bringing this kingdom to earth through love, service, and acts of justice.
This week Pastor Grant Harris continues our King and Kingdom Come: The Gospel According to Luke series with a message titled Jesus: Prepared & Proven. We'll explore Jesus stepping into His public ministry — prepared through John’s bold preaching, affirmed in baptism, rooted in whakapapa, and proven through testing in the wilderness; looking at how His genealogy connects Him to all of humanity, entering into our broken family lines to offer us something radically new: a restored ident...
This week, Pastor Aidan Wivell explores Luke 2 as part of our King & Kingdom Come: The Gospel According to Luke series, diving into the story of Simeon—a Spirit-led man who had been waiting his whole life for God’s promise. Holding the child Jesus in his arms, Simeon rejoices in the hope revealed not just for Israel, but for all nations. He also proclaims the great reversal Jesus’ Kingdom will bring—a reality that will reveal the true condition of every heart.
This week Pastor Grant Harris launches our new series King & Kingdom Come: The Gospel According To Luke, with the message small parts. BIG STORY. speaking out of Luke 1:1–4. Grant will explore how Luke opens his Gospel with what feels like a preview of God’s unfolding plan. Through the stories of Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, and John, we’ll see how God weaves ordinary lives into extraordinary purposes, keeping His promises in ways that change the world. As we begin this journey throu...
This week Pastor Grant Harris will bring us a one-off message on being Witnesses to the World, speaking out of Acts 1:8. Jesus calls us to be his witnesses—sharing the good things He has done in our lives, both as individuals and as a church family. We’ll also explore Windsor's long-term partnership with Joyya, one of our Beyond the Walls projects, and consider how God might still be inviting us into challenging and sacrificial ways of living out that call.
This Father’s Day message by Dr Paul Jones contrasts absent earthly fathers with our ever-present heavenly Father, who promises, “I am with you.” Through Jesus, God bridges the gap between heaven and earth, coming down to dwell with us and even within us by His Spirit.
This week Pastor Grant Harris brings a one-off message titled Freed | Restored | Sent from Luke 8:26–39. Together we’ll explore the reality of spiritual battles and humanity’s struggle with evil, and see how Jesus freed the demon-possessed man, restored his identity and community, and sent him out as a witness to God’s power. The challenge for us today is to live out that same pattern—allowing Jesus to free us, restore us, and send us to share our testimony of His work in our lives.
This week we're delighted to be welcoming Matt Burrows from the Christian Broadcasting Association (CBA) to share the inspiring story of CBA’s mission to Be The Light of Jesus in the media industry across Aotearoa. Matt, one of our very own Windsor Parkers, will discuss how CBA is creatively responding to God's calling in a challenging cultural landscape, and how we are all invited to be part of this prophetic ministry. Get ready to be inspired and challenged to get involved in making a...
This week Guest Preacher John Tucker will unpack how Jesus shows us that the way up is, in fact, down—revealing the secret to a meaningful life through Mark 10:45: “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Discover how true greatness in Jesus’ kingdom comes from serving others, embracing sacrifice, and putting others first.
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