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 […]
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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 […]
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 – January 2015
Our new series, New Year New You, from the book of Colossians in the bible, starts on 4th January 2015. We’ll talk about our ambitions and dreams, how we can achieve personal change, and God’s role in all of this. We meet on Sundays in Filmbase on Curved Street, Temple Bar, with refreshments from 4.15pm. […]
Where is the love? (Value 3)
There are many reasons why people don’t believe in Jesus. Some intellectual (doubts and objections), some emotional (pain and suffering) and some relational (the church sucks!). In this blog post I want to look at number 3 and talk about our third value as a church: community, which guides us to fulfil our vision of making […]
Why Get Baptised? Our First One In Dublin!
We have been in Dublin just over 18 months and in September we will be launching officially as a church. Do read more about all that on our get involved and vision pages. So it was with great joy that we had our first, hopefully of many, baptisms this Sunday as Maxime got baptised. You […]
The Dublin Banquet
On Sunday 4th May a team from the UK organised a big community meal for the people and city of Dublin. The team were given the challenge to organise a banquet in 48 hours, with only the venue already secured. They worked hard from Friday evening to Sunday to get all the food, invite people […]
Life after death? – Sun 13 Apr
Do join us for an Easter special of the Intro Course as we explore the theme of life after death. At this event we are going to look at four views to the question “what happens when I die?”: (1) The Athiest (2) The Eastern (3) The Modern (4) The Christian Then we’ll look not […]