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 […]
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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 […]
Easter Sunday – He Is Risen…Hallelujah
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 […]
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, […]