Bøker av Robby Charters

To many, James is a difficult work to swallow. It's the favourite source material of preachers of harsh sermons, who like to rebuke. It seems to fly in the face of everything Paul says about faith and salvation. But if we read it carefully, we find it's not about trying to make our actions match our faith, nor even about trying to control the tongue. It's about much more - FOCUS.

Determinism versus Fee Will - In a world ruled by fate, Nicholas has recurring dreams about being crushed by a falling tree. Even when he takes the queue from his previous dream and dodges in a different direction, the tree still hits him - in his dream. As for what will happen in real life, the general advice is, "Be strong and embrace your fate: it's all for the cosmic economy."When Nicholas manages to sidestep his fate by doing the truly unexpected, strange things begin to happen. Helped along by a wizened old man named Jeremiah, who sings like a bullfrog, he enters a brave new world and begins to view his destiny. That involves a young boy named Josh, a member of a Gypsy community and a wise horse named Maggie. But the Fate Master isn't pleased.

The world of the late 21st century is divided between Greater China, the Western Block, the Islamic Block and the Southern Free States of Africa and South America. The Western Block is dominated by the multinational corporations, who have created a paradise for its citizens -- so everyone thinks.Mickey O'Brien is the Eurasian, half Asian and half Irish. He has a problem with that, because all his friends are fully Asian. However, no one has actually met each other -- only their virtual projected images they show on their on-line classroom environment. He and his classmates meet each other for the first time as they go on a class trip to America. It turns out they all had things to hide.In America, they accidentally discover what the Multinationals have been trying to hide. Their hover van is hijacked, and they are left trapped in the great American outback, a vast area of what was once U.S.A., now divided between countless republics. Some are Nazi, some are militant Christian and other redneck cowboy states, some Native American Nations, Mafia kingdoms, etc etc. The wild west is again wild. Once having stumbled in, can they ever find their way out again?It's a story of finding out what's real, and discovering true faith as they become involved in an espionage war trying to prevent a Nazis takeover.

The human race is losing the battle for freedom to move within the galaxy - or even to survive as a species, if some galactic nations have their way. A feral toddler growing up among rats in the air vents of a space station could be the key to the future of humanity.The story follows a family of orphans who adopts the little girl who thinks she's a rat, along with their adoptive father, who had escaped from his home planet just before it was destroyed.The space station is operated by galactic beings hostile towards humanity. To them, rats and humans are equally vermine. However, they allow all the humans they had imprisoned there to go to resettle a vacant planet. But there was a reason why that planet was abandoned by the previous human population.The little girl who thinks she's a rat is a key to their survival.

Sequel to The Rat Queen: Humans and Rats from the ill fated planet of Malvern arrive on Old Earth, and find it only a shadow of its old self, due to not only an EMP that cut them off from the rest of the galaxy, but also another Ice Age.They come with the tools to help, but standing in their way is human nature, and the ill intent of certain Galactic beings.

Many boys, all look more closely alike than twins, all named Oscar Wild Daugherty, are, in fact, the same boy from different parallel universes. In their house, are two sets of stairs, one up in the top floor, one in the cellar, that appear to go nowhere, but they are portals to the different universes. Each boy has discovered that once one has taken the stairs, getting back into one's own universe isn't straightforward - so they're lost. They wander from house to house - universe to universe - eating what they find in the fridge, living like Rats in the Cellar. Each universe has its own dystopian nightmare. Some are on the brink of nuclear war, some hopelessly divided by politics, all in economic meltdown with electricity off as often as on, and police who only protect those that pay them. Also wandering the multiverse are multiple copies of Oscar's paedophile uncle, often hunting in pairs. And there's a cat. The cat is good. In book one: all Oscar wants to do is find a universe where his neighbourhood isn't likely to be nuked, where he's safe from his paedophile uncle, and has a loving and stable set of parents. He also wouldn't mind living as a twin to one of his other doubles, the one they call Percy. But the cat has bigger plans... In book two: the cat takes special interest in the one they call Louis, the bad boy. After making sure Louis makes up for some of his nastier pranks, he helps him find Blake, another instance of himself from yet another parallel universe, living in the street, a victim of two of his Paedophile uncles. The two go on a rescue mission to find the owner of their house from yet another universe, who has become lost in the network of worlds. In doing so, Louis and Blake have found a home where they're accepted as twin sons of the man they rescued. The father and two sons go on a further adventure in which they deal with the various instances of "Uncle Milton", Oscar's paedophile uncle. There are more twists and turns as they meet another creature of the same order as the cat. In book three: the diary of Dr. James McSporran, a nuclear physicist stuck in the 18th century tells part of the story. Some unscrupulous time travellers have pre-empted the Abolition movement, turning their universe into a dark world where human rights isn't even a concept. One instance of Oscar Wild Daugherty, who becomes known as Justin, stumbles into that world, which leads to the whole group of them going in to make a difference. In book four: the time has come to shut down the parallel worlds portal. Dr. James McSporran has arrived from the distant past to perform the task. He asks Oscar, also known as Justin, to help him. But the task is far from straightforward. On shutting it down, they are flung into the bleak world that had resulted from the evil acts of McSporran's two unscrupulous pupils. There the house lies in ruins. Switching the portal back on only resets the device, which will now only work on the original world and any that would split off from that. And split off, it does, resulting in two Oscars, and two Dr. McSporrans. At least Oscar will never be alone again, but how do they get home? The McSporrans find that two heads are better than one, but one of them must stay behind. The other takes the two boys via a make-shift time machine. Their route takes them through Victorian England, where the unthinkable happens. The two Oscars are taken away to London into child labour, while McSporran is put in prison for trespassing in his own house. How does one get back home when locked in a silk mill in Victorian London?

In this humble compilation, we try to explain things so the average atheist-on-the-street can grasp what it is that Christians essentially believe (notwithstanding, some atheists are more knowledgeable about it than most Christians)... ...or, if you will... ...so the average person-in-the-pew can better explain it to to his atheist and agnostic friends (of which I hope he/she has many)... ...or better yet... ...understand it him/herself. We steer away from many of the tired cliches, and we take a second look at what the Bible really says about some issues, what this Christian thing is about, and what it's not about. What we won't do is dwell on the usual sticking points, such as six-day creation, and how scientific the flood narrative is or isn't. There's simply too much else to unwrap and blow our minds to wait for everyone to agree on those issues. What we will do is discuss whether the idea of a God who's both just and omnipotent is an oxymoron, whether the Bible supports genocide, whether the picture of God as an angry jealous old man, truly describes God's nature, and what made Christianity into the "white man's religion". We will discuss as best we can exactly what God was thinking - what is His motivation in interacting with humanity.