Imagine if you had been one of the woman who had gone to the tomb that Easter Morning and imagine the shock as you discovered three things; (1) the stone was rolled away (2) the tomb was empty and (3) an angel was speaking to you “Why do you look for the living among the […]
Author Archives: Steve Vaughan
Good Friday – He Was Pierced For Our Transgressions
Maybe the most important words about the meaning and power of Good Friday were written 800 years before it happened by the Prophet Isaiah. In Chapter 53 he says He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in […]
Acts 6: A Church In Transition (Strategic Plans at Christ City Church) – Sunday 12th April
When you read the book of Acts you see there are a number of ‘transition moments’ which are marked by the phrase “so the word of God spread” or something similar. As the gospel went from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria to the ends of the earth, there were key changes in leadership as God […]
Life Group – resources to get you going
For us at Christ City Church, Life Groups are going to form the heart of our long-term, ongoing, commitment to grow in Christlikeness and be filled with the Holy Spirit. In my previous post I outlined what Life Groups are, why they are important and how to get going. As I said in the blog, […]
Life Groups – What Are They?
In Christ City Church we have three places to belong – Sunday Gatherings (30+ ppl), City Groups (10-30ppl) and Life Groups (2-5ppl), where we encourage you to belong. We do understand that some of you may only be able to commit to one or two of the three because of work or family commitments (and that is […]
Why Bother With Marriage?
Over the last 30 years the institution of marriage has come under extreme pressure with divorce, cohabitation and sex outside marriage all on the rise… and increasingly so. People are marrying later and later, choosing not to marry at all and divorcing more quickly when marriage is tough. As a result, marriage is on the […]
Sexual Immorality – Thinking It Through
Our current 8 week series Sex in the City is bound to throw up lots of questions as we consider God’s original plan for sex and relationships. The New Testament speaks repeatedly that the church should look very different from the world around it when it comes to its attitude towards sex. It should hold […]
God, Sex & Culture – The art of double listening
John Stott famously coined the phrase “double listening”. He says: “The phrase ‘double listening’ has always been significant for me. And it means that we’re called to listen both to the Word of God, and to today’s world, in order to relate the one to the other”. Over the next 8 weeks, as we consider one of the […]
10 things I love about Church
As promised in yesterday’s post, this is the counterpart and lists 10 reasons why I love church. It will hopefully help us as we think about how we fulfil our vision to make a positive difference in Dublin spiritually, culturally and socially. And by the way, I am a ‘glass half full’ kinda guy and […]
10 things I hate about Church
This Sunday we finish off our series in the book of Colossians and have spent a week looking at our vision under the title ‘A Church Not For Ourselves’. I wrote a blog post a while back saying that our church should be for the good of the city and engaging to sceptics and this is […]