As a church we want to play our small part in loving the poor and needy in our city and abroad. One simple way of helping us do that this year is serving and helping with Team Hope and the Christmas Shoebox Appeal. What is Team Hope? TEAM HOPE is an Irish, Christian development aid […]
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Christmas Community Banquet – 14 Dec
Jesus loved to be at banquets! He spends most of Luke’s gospel either coming from, at, or going to a meal of some kind. He loved to eat with people; it was his way of doing mission and building community. Famously in Luke 14 Jesus is at a banquet in the house of a religious leader […]
CCC & What’s The Story?
Everyone has a story to tell. And we have a story to tell, the greatest story of all — of God reaching into our world to bring salvation to those who would receive him. From Sunday 25th September through to Sunday 30th October, we’ll be joining in with the Ireland-wide What’s The Story? Campaign. What’s […]
A New Season for Christ City Church
September 2022 is the start of a new season for Christ City Church as we launch our morning congregation. A Church-Planting Church For many years we have taught, prayed and talked about becoming a church-planting church. That God might use us to reach many people in Dublin with the good news of Jesus and make […]
Becoming A Church Planting Church
The vision of Christ City Church has always been to become a church planting church. As we look at scripture and experience, we agree with the Christian sociologist Peter Wagner that: “planting new churches is the most effective evangelistic methodology known under heaven!*” Particularly in urban centres (like Dublin), church planting has proven to […]
Weekend Away for CCC South – 7-9 May 2027
The Christ City Church South weekend away is for everyone – we’d love you to join us. You can sign up by filling in our online form. All the details you need to know are below: Sign ups have closed WHEN: 7th-9th May 2027. Please arrive on Friday evening for a meal at 7pm and we’ll […]
The Future Kingdom (Parables in Matthew)
Is our world heading for melt down? Will our planet burn up? Will nations destroy one another through nuclear war? What hope is there for our future? These are real questions for us in 2022. To help us consider Christian hope, and how that helps us live in our present times, we’re going to spend […]
Psalms – Finding Contentment In God
Contentment is a tricky thing to find. A recent book captures the mood of our culture well – “Why are we restless: On the modern quest for contentment” Here is the diagnosis We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we […]
Dating, Sexual Boundaries & Jesus
A few months back someone in church who is dating asked me this question (I paraphrase): Okay Steve…so we’re not to have sex till marriage… but why… and what are the principles that underly our thinking on sexual boundaries whilst we date? I was so grateful for the candor and for the chance to chat […]
Renew – 2022
Why is personal and corporate renewal necessary? In the 5th Century BC Nehemiah was called by God to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and to re-envision the people for being God’s covenant people. Nehemiah helps us understand what corporate renewal looks like in the life of a church. Nehemiah 1-6: Rebuilding the city walls The […]