It has been said that when you read Luke’s gospel that Jesus is either going to a meal, at a meal or coming from a meal. Meals dominate Luke’s Gospel. Why? Because meals help us understand what Jesus is all about – welcome, community, grace, mission and friendship. Maybe most strikingly Jesus’s meals reveal who […]
Author Archives: Steve Vaughan
Investing in the City
The vision of Christ City Church is ‘to make a positive difference spiritually, culturally and socially to the city of Dublin’. To spell that out… Spiritually – we want to see people come to know Jesus as Lord, Saviour & treasure Culturally – we want to do all we can to make Dublin a city […]
Exodus: God Is Here
The book of Exodus is a very famous, exciting and dramatic book. Why? Well there is Moses and the burning bush, there is Pharaoh and the ten plagues, there is the escape from Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea, there is manna from heaven and a pillar of fire in the sky, there […]
EAI’s Statement on the forthcoming Referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution
Christ City Church is a member of the Evangelical Alliance Ireland who have recently released a statement with regards to the forthcoming Referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which was adapted from an earlier submission they made to The Citizens’ Assembly. Leanne has written about what this means, has encouraged us to join […]
Mary Magdalene (Film Review & John 20)
This Easter Sunday I will be speaking on John 20, where Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene after he has been raised from the dead. To help me prepare for this, and to be up-to-date with the latest blockbuster, I went to see the film Mary Magdalene last night with Leanne. So what did we make of […]
Consumer Church
Many have said that we now live in a consumeristic culture; that is, a culture where the consumers’ needs/desires/preferences dictate everything. In the business world people often say ‘the customer is king’ – in other words, what the customer wants is more important than anything else. This has had lots of positive results including better […]
Philippians – Finding Joy
What better way to start 2018 than studying a letter all about joy! Paul is writing from a prison; is being slandered by those outside the prison; is addressing a church struggling with unity with a few of its own hostile enemies; and he writes them a letter which is all about joy! Joy pervades […]
6.30 Leadership – Mark’s Gospel (year 3)
For the third year running Christ City Church will be running a leadership course for anyone who is interested, starting on Wednesday 24th January 2018. In 2016 14 people completed the course, based on the book of 2 Timothy, and last year 25 people finished the course based on the book of Nehemiah. This year […]
Planning for multiplication – becoming a Church Planting Church
(February 2023 update: this article is still relevant, and we praise God that in Sept 2022 we launched CCC South. However please check out the more general page on becoming a church planting church that will be helpful going forward) We’re just about to celebrate three years as a church so I wanted to write […]
The CCC Advisory Team
It’s with great delight that I want to tell you about (announce!) that Christ City Church now has an Advisory Team. This blog is to explain a bit about the purpose of the team, who they are and how it will work. But first… Some History Leanne and I moved to Dublin on September 24th 2012 with […]