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 […]
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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 […]
NEW YEAR : NEW YOU – 5 questions to help you make the most of the year
A new year provides new opportunities, fresh hope, new plans and the famous new years resolutions; goals we want to hit or habits we want to cultivate for the next 12 months. As we start the year it feels like we have a ‘clean slate’ which gives us renewed vigour and ambition. In a sense, […]
10 reasons I loved the Christ City Church Weekend Away
So we had our first weekend away as an official church this past weekend and here are 10 reasons why I loved it. Do check out these epic facebook photos and videos. (1) The Karaoke This really was something to behold. The Saturday night was casually passing by and then suddenly the karaoke comes on […]
A Church Not For Ourselves (Our Vision – part 2)
An archbishop from a previous century famously said “The Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non–members.” “If only that were true” I hear you say! Well that is certainly our ambition and vision; we want to be a church that primarily exists not for ourselves but for those who do not normally go to church and for […]
Prayer – Getting Started
We all know that usually the hardest bit of any task is getting started. Whether it be cleaning the house, packing for holiday, writing an essay or going for a run. Once you get going it’s okay; the getting going is the hardest bit. And so it is with prayer, the hardest thing is getting […]