July 31, 2019
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Dear Family at Christ Community,
This Sunday we will come yet again to the Lord's Table to witness anew this display of God's inexhaustible feast of grace and mercy in Christ! As Paul calls us in Ephesians 4:25-5:2 to put off the particular sinful ways of thinking and habits that were killing us and put on the characteristics of God in Christ for the benefit of our ne...
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July 30, 2019
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Weekly Confession
Gracious and Merciful Father,
We come before you to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance.
We confess that we frequently fail to put away falsehood, limiting our ability to truly live as members with one another (Ephesi...
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July 24, 2019
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Communion
Dear Family at Christ Community,
On Sunday, we will gather to celebrate the goodness of God to us through the redemption accomplished and applied in Jesus Christ. As part of our celebration in Ephesians 4:17-24, we will feast on the truth that the old way of sin and death has passed away in the death of Jesus and the newness of life has been poured out on us in the re...
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July 23, 2019
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Weekly Confession
Gracious and Merciful Father,
We come before you to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance.
We confess that we frequently walk according to our old way of thinking which hardens our hearts and alienates us from the life of G...
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July 16, 2019
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Weekly Confession
Gracious and Merciful Father,
We come before you to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance.
We confess that we frequently fail to desire to be equipped for the work of the ministry, for the building up the body of Christ to ...
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July 11, 2019
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Weekly Confession
Gracious and Merciful Father,
We come before you to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance.
We confess that we frequently fail to walk in a manner worthy to calling to which we have been called in Christ (Ephesians 4:1-3).
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July 2, 2019
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Communion
Dear Family at Christ Community,
This coming Sunday we have the opportunity to be strengthened in our faith in Christ by the means of grace offered in worship. Paul's prayer for the Ephesian saints in Ephesians 3:14-21 will serve as the golden thread for our service. Just as he prayed for them to be strengthened by the Holy Spirit in their understanding and practice o...
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