Excelling in the grace of giving I wonder what you think our church is known for? Or I wonder what you would like our church to be known for? When Paul wrote to the Corinthians about the matter of financial giving (see 2 Corinthians 8-9), he wanted to stir them into action by telling them […]
Author Archives: Steve Vaughan
CCC Lockdown Seminars
Through the history of salvation there have been challenging moments that came upon God’s people – plagues, exile, droughts, defeat and a whole host of other things. Whether it was slavery in Egypt, anarchy during the time of judges, civil war under the egotistical kings of the 8th Century BC, the plague of locusts in […]
Seminar: Sharing Your Faith
Who finds evangelism easy? Who feels they are good at it? Who feels they’re reaping much fruit from their witness to family and friends? Who feels they always have the right words to say to people to explain or defend the Christian message? Who finds it easy to stand out and be different from the […]
Colossians – Rooted in Christ
2020 was a year like no other; a ‘year to forget’ many have said. Our generation has never faced anything like it and the effects of Covid-19 will be felt well into the future. We ‘hope’ 2021 will be different as we put our ‘hope’ in a vaccine to put our world ‘back to normal’. […]
7.30 Leadership – 2 Timothy
It has been said that Christian leadership is: Mobilising God’s gifts to accomplish God’s goal, in God’s way Our aim at 7.30 leadership is to help existing leaders do so more effectively and fruitfully. But before we get into the details let’s start by dealing with the elephant in the room. For a number of […]
The Sermon on the Mount
Jesus was the greatest moral teacher that ever lived and the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ was his most famous sermon. Many of the phrases used are still used 2000 years later –‘turn the other cheek’, ‘do not judge’, ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. Initially Jesus came proclaiming the kingdom […]
Haggai – Whose House?
The year is 539 BC and after many painful years in exile, the new world leader, Cyrus, has said that the Jewish people can return to their land and rebuild their temple (2 Chronicles 36:22-23). They start returning in 538BC and work on the temple begins in 536 BC. Things are looking good; hope and […]
CCC Online Communion
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a number of scenarios for us a church where knowing the ‘right’ course of action is not obvious. One such area is communion. Since there is no precedent or historical examples to refer to we have had to think on our feet and listen to how other Christian leaders are […]
Physical Church Again – Q&A
With the recent update from the Irish Government, including specific guidelines for religious services, we will be returning to hybrid church with in-person and online church available from Sunday 16th May 2021. We are SUPER excited that after 5 months of not meeting physically for our church gatherings we can start to meet again. The key to living in […]
A Call To Fast – Wed 5th August
I feel very convicted as I write this blog that I haven’t done this sooner. We aim to fast once a term, and the last time we did corporately was on Wednesday 5th February, before the coronavirus pandemic hit our world. If there was ever a reason for God’s people to commit together to seek […]