On Sunday 28th February 2016 we kicked off this ‘Aliens and Strangers‘ series with a launch party in our new venue, Synge Street Secondary School. You can see photos from the event on our Facebook page. We’ll be continuing the series till Easter Sunday and this blog post outlines some of the themes we’ll explore. Being the […]
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A Church That Loves Dublin
One of the slogans we have is that we are “a Christian community committed to love and serve Dublin” – it’s at the bottom of every page of our website. I’ll let you be the judge as to whether the slogan really represents us. Even if we’re failing I think it’s a good slogan and aspiration to have. When […]
Friendship – Eben’s Story
This Sunday Eben spoke to us on the topic of friendship from the book of Proverbs. He wove the lessons of Proverbs on friendship into his own life story of finding God as a friend and in turn learning to befriend others. I encourage you to listen to the podcast if you missed it. I asked […]
Christ City Church Internship – 5 observations
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 […]
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 […]
Synge Street Secondary School – our 2016 Sunday venue
From 3rd January 2016 we’ll be meeting on Sundays at Synge Street Secondary School. We’ve been looking for a venue that will suit our growing church and enable more people to get there easily on a Sunday and we’re really excited that this venue should do just that. We’ll be meeting at the same time (4.15pm for a […]
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 – […]