The Gathering Windsor Podcast

To join Jesus in his Kingdom and on his mission into the darkness will mean that his people will have had to undergo significant  transformation and the loss of everything the world considers essential

Every sinner is unable and unprepared to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is reserved for those  who run from sin, and rest in Jesus. Matthew 3 is a reminder that God must change a person from what they are by  nature if they are ever to meet God.

We can glorify God and be his obedient people in the strength that God provides. We can be a church that glorifies God, because before anything else, we know that God is able. Only he can provide the strength that we need. The question is, how does he do it?

  What binds believers together is not just to a community of enthusiasts bonded by similarity for a season. The church is God’s design for a transcendent community. The gospel creates a devoted community of people who commit themselves to life together as the people of God, and that community we will find has certain characteristics.  

We need direction. What we find is that God has provided us with a strategy that will equip us to be everything God has saved us to be as a church.

Pastor Phil continues the series about our church’s renewed vision and explains that all Christians are called to be witnesses for Jesus.

When people can’t distinguish between real and fake news, it creates confusion and misunderstanding about what matters most. When people can’t distinguish between real and fake worship, it creates confusion and misunderstanding about who matters most.

We want to continue to be a gospel-centered church striving for the Glory of God. What could possibly support the weight of our ambition. Where do we start? We start at the center where God started with us and finishes with us. It’s at the center – at the power plant of God – the gospel.

Pastor Phil begins the new year by challenging us to fight idolatry and find true satisfaction in Gog

Christmas is an invitation to every human being to respond to the Savior. So, what will it be? Will you oppose him, or will you trust him. The choice you make will not only determine what Christmas will mean for you in time, but what Christ will mean to you for all eternity.

The world doesn’t need a human remedy. Mankind cannot help mankind in the way we need it most. Only God can rescue us from our greatest problem.  

We don’t always find it easy to do the right thing even if it’s for the right reason, and especially when it involves people we love. Our commitment to Godliness in Godless Days will impact the kind of relationships that we have with others. From Titus 3:9-15, Paul will help us to see how our commitment to Godliness will impact our relationships.

We know that God’s grace is an absolute priority in each of our lives as believers, but we can forget that grace fits us with the extravagant means to be good toward others. Grace has not only transformed us in heart, the promise has readied us for life among believers, and even in an ugly world. So far in this book, with the exception of a brief reference to slaves to masters, Paul has focused in...

We often get discouraged in our effort to be godly because we fail to realize the power that is available to believers in not in our ability, but in the grace of God. The result is that believers in Crete, believers in Windsor and all points in between will find it not only impossible but discouraging in their effort to be who God has saved them to be. In the grace of God, we find all that we need...

The calling on the church is to go out and make disciples who will then make disciples. Every person who calls them self a follower of Christ has this calling .  We have the privilege to partner with God on this commission.

Pastor Phil looks at Titus 2:9-10 and explains that Christians are to pursue godliness in every context that God places them, including their jobs.

Our greatest need is the transforming refreshment of God’s Word/sound doctrine if godly life is to be our reality. The sad result of neglect in this is a generation of professions without resemblance. God addresses 4 basic categories of people in terms of gender and life experience to bear fruit in their personal context – as God sovereignly has placed them. When men and women are committed to thi...

As those who are pure in heart, we want to live pure lives for the glory of God.      Like the Cretans of Titus’ day, we are surrounded by and susceptible to doctrinal error that cannot be left unaddressed because sinners are still going to hell, Christians still want to please the God who saved them and Satan is still seeking to rob God of Glory through us. It’s game on, and the stakes could not...

We all have different impressions of what makes a good leader, even what makes the  best church leaders. While we may advocate for the appointment of leaders based on a variety of abilities, talents, or skills, we may be inclined to advocate for those who don’t actually qualify. In this passage, we learn what God’s priorities are in the selection of Elders in the local church.    

The godless days are days when we ready ourselves and seek to be like Jesus – to live out the gospel. What we find is that the godless days have more conforming power than we may realize. Paul sends a letter to challenge Titus about issues that are as relevant to the Cretan believers as they are all of us – that challenge is that godliness is better. 

Pastor Phil concludes the series on the 10 Commandments by looking at stealing and coveting.  Since Christ is enough for us, we must fight against covetousness and fight for contentment.

Pastor Phil continues the series on the 10 Commandments.  This week, he explains that we show love to others by honouring parents, life, and marriage.

What does it mean to take the Lord’s name in vain?  Am I supposed to keep the Sabbath?  If so, how?

Guest speaker, Tim Hamer explains the dangers of false witness and challenges us towards true witness.

God encourages us to be thankful even in adversity When we forget this, we forget that God is with us and for us and in us.