So the Lord’s promise came true, just as the prophet had said, ”A virgin will have a baby boy, and he will be called Immanuel,” which means “God is with us.”
Matthew 1:23
What if God was one of us?
During our Carol Service last Sunday night, Robin showed this video:
Changing Church
The Gospel in Four Circles
Check out this video by James Choung, he explains the gospel in a way that makes much more sense than the traditional ‘Christ filling the Gap’ model. The focus is our part in “The Big Story” rather than personal salvation.. if you liked this, you’ll love part 2 I’m really impressed with this and can [...]
CBC News
The Reason for the Season!
This year, and for the 6th Year now, the Church presented “The Reason for the Season” to local schools. Adapted from Slough Baptist’s original presentation, the aim is to separate Christmas stuff that’s from the bible from Christmas stuff that’s not. For example one part of the presentation is in the form of a quiz, [...]
Sunday Mornings
The Reason for the Season?
Most of our people know this phrase now as the title of the Christmas Schools Week production which we’ve just completed for (I think) the 6th or 7th time. We get kids in from five local schools and tell them the “real story of Christmas” as distinct from all the “fluff” – like Father Christmas, [...]
Christian News
Christian News from the UK
Here are some items of recent UK Christian News. Bus Shelter Nativity Scene An artist’s image of the nativity, which replaces the stable with a dirty urban bus shelter, has been unveiled as part of a Church campaign. The oil painting by Andrew Gadd – which will appear as posters in UK bus shelters – [...]
Articles
Hosanna by Paul Baloche
Here’s a song we’ll be singing on Sunday. Although we have sung this before, this a quick reminder. Click the ‘+’ listen. (download) Hosanna by Paul Baloche Enjoy!
Articles
Christmas Theme Park Scam
Wow this is unbelievable. Some rip off merchants have made a “Lapland” theme park that’s supposed to be all christmassy, but it looks like a christmas discount store has exploded in the woods. Check out the links – it’s so bad. BBC News article Video on the telegraph website A Facebook Group set up to [...]
Articles
A Home to be Proud of
I thought that this is article below, copied from a Slough Town football website here, was very interesting for the church. Not only because one of our members has recently moved to the place in question, but also that it serves a strong need of the community, a “hot topic” for us at the moment. [...]
CBC News
Christmas at CBC
Next week it’s the Schools Week at Cippenham Baptist Church; this is the first of many Christmas Activities. On Tuesday the 9th of December it’s the Discoverers and Adventurers Christmas Presentation. This is where the children in the 2 of our younger age group youth clubs put on something Christmassy for all to come and [...]
Sunday Mornings
The Universal Christ
Unexpectedly, yesterday left me thinking more deeply about some less commonly considered descriptions of “Christ” in the New Testament. In our meeting at Cippenham as we considered the theme of being Jesus’ “TEAM” we looked at Ephesians 4 where the strange phrase occurs: “So the one who came down is the same one who went [...]
