Articles Index
I'd like to explain to you the incredible significance of the Bible to
your life, its amazing message and the importance of not ignoring it's
claims...
adapted by Eric John Scott WS, President of Carrubbers Christian Centre
We all have huge misconceptions about God. Most of us prefer to live with
these rather than think them through. Its more comfortable that way. The
fact that someone knows everything about us is disconcerting in the
extreme. The worst of it is that we all have our skeletons hidden away
deluding ourselves that only we hear them rattling. But God knows - and we
know He knows...
by Wayne Sutton BSc MDiv, Senior Pastor, Carrubbers Christian Centre
When I was young we talked as a family about going to church. Never, in
all my years as a child did anything other than the old, gothic-style,
building come to mind when my parents uttered that familiar statement, "OK
boys, we're off to church"...
by John Percival BAHons
There is no such thing as church history. This is because the church can
never be studied in isolation as it is always related to the wider social,
economic and political context of the day. The church may not be of the
world but it is most definitely in the world and must always be seen as
such...
In that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in the room.
There were no distinguishing features except for the one wall covered with
small index card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list
titles by author or subject in alphabetical order...
by Sidlow Baxter
"One morning, I looked at my watch and noticed that it was time to
withdraw for an hour of prayer. I looked at my watch and it said, "Time
for prayer, Sid." But I looked at my desk and there was a miniature
mountain of correspondence. At which point my conscience said, "You ought
to answer those letters." So, as we say in Scotland, I
swithered!..."
Website articles
by Colin Peckham
or: Nine steps to building a church website [and the pitfalls along the
way]. 1 Getting leadership backing. Thankfully in Carrubbers, we had no
problem here, although I have heard of churches who have decided to go
ahead, and then placed so many committees in the way that the thing never
gets published...
by Nigel Swinson
According to the Hear the Word.net Survey, April 2003, Carrubbers Christian
Centre was (and likely still is) publishing more audio sermons online than
any other church in the UK. ... Given these crudentials, it seems possible
that there might be some
useful hints we could pass on to other churches who are looking to do the
same. By reading this article we hope you can learn from our mistakes,
build upon our successes, and make The Word more pervasive on the internet :o)
by Nigel Swinson
Early in 2001 Carrubbers Christian Centre installed two screens and projectors and
looked forward to saying goodbye to hymnbooks forever! Before this goal could be realised,
we needed to find an appropriate program for displaying the songs on the screens. While
the obvious choice is to use Microsoft's Powerpoint, or some other such presentation package,
we were glad to be introduced to a special purpose package called Presenter created specifically
for projecting songs on screen for use in church services...
by Michael Atkinson
We are often asked if we are able to provide our online sermons in MP3 format. Because an MP3
sermon is about 10 mb, this would mean quite a big download for users, but would also mean that
we would have to find an extra 20 mb each week to host the sermons. This article was
written to give help and advice on changing the RealAudio sermons that we produce into MP3 format.
Judaism
The God of the Hebrews is Yahweh (I AM that I AM), but it is a Name
too holy to say, and is substituted with Adonai (Lord) when the
Scriptures are being read. The vowels of Adonai were interspersed into
the consonants of Yahweh, resulting in an impossible word in Hebrew,
but which gave rise to the English 'Jehovah'...
Islam
Mohammed was born in 570AD in Mecca. Marriage to a rich widow left him
free for religious contemplation. In 610AD, while in a cave, the angel
Gabriel appeared to him and commanded 'Recite!'. Then followed the
first of many revelations...
Hinduism
Unlike most other religions, Hinduism defies strict codification. The
name means 'Indian' and includes widely varying practices and beliefs.
An orthodox Hindu may be theist or atheist, ascetic or
materialist...
Buddhism
arose out of atheistic Hinduism, c.560bc; Siddharta Gautama, born a
prince in Northern India; Buddha means 'enlightened one'...
Roman Catholicism
A religion characterised by its uniform, highly developed doctrinal
and organizational structure, the Roman Catholic Church traces its own
history to the Apostles and Jesus Christ in the 1st century ad. Along
with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it represents one of the
three major branches of what is usually termed Christianity...
Eastern Orthodoxy
The term Eastern Orthodox designates the large body of Christians who
claim to follow the doctrines defined by the first seven ecumenical
councils. There was a schism between the churches of the east and the
west in the year 1054...
Mormonism
An angel named Moroni appeared to a seventeen year-old boy, Joseph
Smith on 21 September 1823 near New York. Moroni told the boy the
location of a book containing the 'fulness of the everlasting Gospel'
as delivered by the Saviour to the ancient inhabitants of America.
Although he found the plates the next day, Moroni would not allow him
to have them until 22 September 1827...
Jehovah's Witnesses
The official founder was Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), At the age
of seventeen he became engaged in discussion with someone who denied
the existence of hell. Then, at eighteen, he wandered into a church
where the Second Coming of Christ was being discussed and became
interested in the subject...
Christian Science
The founder of the Christian Science cult was Mary Baker Eddy, born in
1821 into a stern Calvinist New Hampshire family. She argued bitterly
against her father on issues such as the wrath of God, and final
judgement, and later rejected orthodox Christian teaching
altogether...
Krishna Conciousness
The origin of the Hare Krishnas (International Society for Krishna
Consciousness or ISKON) dates back to the fifteenth century ad when
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu developed the Doctrines of Krishnaism from the
Hindu sect of Vishnuism...
Travel Journals from those at
Carrubbers.
These pages are not articles about the Christian life, faith, etc, but rather
they are entertaining, observant and humerous journals of friends of
Carrubbers as they travel round the world. If you have a good readable writing
style and would like to have your
journals included here, please get in touch. They almost certainly do not
reflect the views of anyone at all other than their respective authors!
