We’re inviting you all to the Annual General Meeting of Christ City Church. Are you excited? No? It sounds boring, doesn’t it? All about finances and stuff. Shouldn’t church be about people and God, rather than euros and cents? The church should be reaching people’s hearts, not people’s wallets! Should we talk about money together? […]
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CAP Money Coaching Course at CCC
This February at CCC, we are inviting CAP Ireland (Christians Against Poverty) to come and deliver a short 5-week Money Coaching course for free to anyone interested in learning how to manage their finances more effectively. Money coaching is for everyone from the stay at home parent, to the worker in the city, to the […]
How much should I give?
The Bible is clear that all Christians should give a proportion of their money away for two primary reasons: Stewardship – Everything we have is from God. We’re only stewards of His wealth and we are to steward all he has given us in order to give Him glory and to do good to others […]
Church Finances: the stats and the state of things
This post is written by Justin Anderson, our past treasurer. — Let me just say this straight up: this blog post is about money. Even more; it is about the Church’s money. I know, bad place to start, very bad place to start, but Jesus talked quite a lot about money, so why shouldn’t I? […]
3 Freedoms that financial giving brings
This Sunday we have a ‘Giving Sunday’, where I’ll teach on the biblical principles of financial giving, and why giving to a local church is a good idea. In this blog post I want to talk about 3 freedoms that come from giving. You see, most people think that if they give financially they’ll ‘lose out’; they’ll […]
Seminar: Managing Your Money – 14 Feb
Money can be great. But it can also be a source of worry and confusion: What if I don’t have enough? How do I save? How do I even know what I’m spending it on? Justin will be running a money management seminar this Sunday 14th February after the service (6pm) in Synge Street Secondary […]
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 […]
Update on our charity status and finances
Charity Status We are delighted to announce that we are now an official charity and our charity number is CHY 20595. This is a great affirmation that the Revenue Commissioners can see the benefit we bring to Ireland in accordance with our vision and values and recognise us as an official entity. Our charitable status also […]
Why Give? 5 Obvious reasons!
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 […]