In September 2013 we started our internship programme. We were just a very small house church at that time and one brave soul said he’d commit a year to the church and our internship. Since then we have had five others do our internship (three currently half way through) and we’re now taking applications for September […]
Author Archives: Steve Vaughan
Launch Event – 28th February (Aliens & Strangers)
You are invited to come and join us as we officially launch Christ City Church in our new venue, Synge Street Secondary School! Here are all the details you need to know about the event and do RSVP on Facebook. WHAT? It will be a normal service in many ways (with some songs and a talk) but there […]
Life Groups – be careful, they’re dangerous!
Very often in life the things that count are the things that take you outside of your comfort zone; it’s when we’re being stretched and challenged that we grow, it’s when we’re in unchartered territory that we mature, it’s as the pressure reveals who we ‘really are’ (with our weaknesses and strengths) that we are […]
Is Church still relevant in and to Dublin?
Four years ago (January 2012) Leanne and I visited Dublin for a week to try and help us answer the question “should we come to Dublin to start a church?” It was an amazing visit and became a clinching experience as to why we decided to come, which we haven’t regretted one bit! During that visit I think we […]
New Series – Work, Rest & Play (January – February 2016)
One of the greatest failures of the church is to create a divide between the sacred and secular; that is to mark off certain activities as sacred (prayer, bible-reading, mass attendance etc) and certain activities as secular (work, sport, music, sex etc). This then creates a second and equally devastating failure that also plagues the […]
Christmas According To Elf (Film Review)
Once or twice a year (and usually at Christmas) instead of having a ‘normal’ church service we do a film review*. We sit everyone around tables, watch three 5-10min clips of the film, and reflect on its themes. I (as the host of the evening) retell the basic plot between the clips. Last Sunday we reflected […]
Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts (Test)
In 2 Timothy 1:7 the Apostle Paul tells Timothy to ‘fan into flame’ the gift that was in him. Peter tells Christians that… Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms (1 Peter 4:10). So the obvious question comes – […]
Life Group – You Can Change (Chapter 4)
This week in our Life Group we looked at the difference between the symptoms of our sin (e.g. anger); the triggers that cause sin (e.g. pressure); and the root issue behind the sin (e.g. fear of failure). If we’re to see lasting change in our lives we need to get good at looking into our hearts, to the […]
Allegiance: To Whom Will You Bow? (Lessons from the book of Daniel)
From Sunday 11th October to 29th November we will be studying Daniel chapters 1-7 as a church, under the title “Allegiance: To Whom Will You Bow?” Before we get into the outline of the series let me put things in context, both ancient (Daniel’s time) and modern (our time). Daniel is an inspiration to me for […]
What’s God got to do with College?
TCD Christian Union have asked me to come in and speak on the subject ‘What’s God got to do with College?” which I am looking forward to. I will be sharing from Proverbs 8 about how we need wisdom from God to make the most of college so that we don’t look back with regret at […]