Each summer as a church we spend five or six weeks in the Psalms. Why? Because we all need help in prayer and the Psalms are God’s prayer book: words he has given us, for all circumstances of life and for all the emotions we feel, in order to pray to him. In this particular series […]
Author Archives: Steve Vaughan
Different: Loving those you disagree with – Q&A
Loving those you disagree with sounds great. It fits with the golden rule of doing to others as you would have them do to you. However it’s hard in reality and you often need to think it through. So I was delighted to receive an email after last Sunday’s talk on Romans 14 with three excellent […]
A Prayer For Berkeley Tragedy
As we respond with shock and sadness about the six Irish students who died in Berkeley this week and the others who remain critically ill, it’s hard to find the right words to pray. I found this prayer from Scotty Smith as he reflects on Jesus crying outside the tomb of his friend Lazarus and comforting the two sisters, […]
NEW SERIES: DIFFERENT – loving those you disagree with (Romans 14-15)
This coming Sunday we start a short three-week series called ‘Different: loving those you disagree with’, looking at Romans 14 & 15. Let me put the series in context, summarise what we’ll be learning each week and highlight the issues that we’re going to tackle. (1) Context – Ancient and Modern There is both an ancient and modern context […]
Why Give? 5 Obvious reasons!
Financial Giving, it’s a topic no-one naturally wants to talk about and yet Jesus, in his usual way, always brings up the topics we don’t want to talk about. If it wasn’t for Jesus we wouldn’t have to talk about hell, financial giving, sexual ethics and all those other hot potatoes. I guess the reason […]
Suffering Well – An Interview with Christian Hacking
This Sunday we have the immense privilege of welcoming back Christian Hacking to Christ City Church and he has kindly agreed to do our third talk from our 6 week series in the book of Job called Suffering Well. Don’t miss it, things kick off at 4.15pm. UPDATE: Listen to Christian’s story, told at our […]
A Prostitute Gatecrashes the Banquet (#CCCTrueLove)
This Saturday we’re hosting a huge banquet for Dublin (6pm, Filmbase, Temple Bar) as part of our True Love week. Then in our Sunday Service we’ll be reflecting on the theme of true love, looking at the famous story of Jesus being invited to a banquet hosted by Simon the Pharisee recorded for us in […]
Suffering Well – 7 lessons from Tim Keller
As I said in my previous blog post, the theme of the new series is ‘Suffering Well’ and one of the books that will underpin our teaching is Walking with God through pain and suffering by Tim Keller. Joni Eareckson became a quadriplegic at 17 in a diving accident and was left unable to use her […]
Suffering Well (lessons from the book of Job)
We all suffer. The question is how do we cope with that suffering? Do we have the capacity, framework and resources to suffer well? Is it possible to suffer well? Psalm 126:5 says it is possible when it says: Those who sow with tears, will reap with songs of joy. The Psalmist is saying that whilst tears […]
4 Prayers For Mission Week: True Love (Sun 26th April – Sun 3rd May)
From Sunday 26th April until Sunday 3rd May we have 24 UK church interns descending on Dublin with one simple aim: to bring God’s love to the city. Jono Rice will be leading the whole week from our end supported valiantly by our two interns Hilary and Ola, and also Dalton and Shannen. However we’d […]