Grant Harris

Press Service International

Grant Harris is a reformed banker who has been the Senior Pastor of Windsor Park Baptist Church in Auckland, New Zealand, for eleven years. Grant’s passionate about seeing people catch a glimpse of who they are in Christ and living out the difference that makes. He’s tried living according to the patterns of this world and found that those patterns came up short. He’s still a work-in-progress and always will be. You can contact Grant at grant.harris@windsorpark.org.nz.

  • Don’t try to be happy

    I was recently asked by someone whether it was possible to be really happy. This question sparked a conversation about the difference between happiness and contentment.

  • Declined

    I was at my local supermarket recently, the one where every time I’m there I end up chatting to people I know, sometimes in the isles and sometimes in the checkout lines. It’s always a pleasant experience.

  • I want it all. Now.

    Some songs just stick with you through life. When I was 19, British rock band, Queen, released a song call I Want It All. It reached number three on the singles charts of the United Kingdom, Finland, Ireland and New Zealand.

  • When will this all end?

    August 2021 was going well. Here in New Zealand we’d weathered the COVID19 storm quite well. Life was relatively normal, the elimination strategy adopted by our government was by-and-large working. Of course, there was opposition to some of the restrictions that we were living under, but no country escapes opposition to government direction.

  • The conspiracy of individualism

  • Bloody good

    Most of you who are reading this will know that when asked what the greatest commandment is, Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.

  • The Road Less Travelled

  • It’s holiday time

  • Why I didn’t get vaccinated

    We live in polarising times and the topic of this article is proving to be polarising in the general community of Aotearoa New Zealand, and in the local church that I serve as lead pastor of.

  • It will be what it will be

    As I write this article here in New Zealand on 26th August 2021, we’re in Day 9 of what we know as Level 4 lockdown as the Delta variant of COVID19 raised its head for the first time in our country.