The Communion and Baptism Letter for April 14th, 2024....
The Weekly Confession of Sin for Christ Community Church. ...
Dear Family at Christ Community, On Easter Sunday, we will have the joy of celebrating the Lord's Table at each of our in-person worship services. We will see in our text from Luke 24:1-35 how the risen Lord can only be seen through the illuminating grace of the Holy Spirit. Despite the disciples' knowledge of Jesus' words and Jesus explaining how God's Word reveals Him...
Keep ReadingGracious 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 pause now to silently confess our individual sins before confessing together as a congregation from the text in Luke. We confess that we too often fail to prep...
Keep ReadingGracious and Merciful Father,We come before you toconfessour 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 pause now to silentlyconfessour individual sins beforeconfessingtogether as a congregation from the text in Luke.Weconfessthat we tend to focus more on the world's re...
Keep ReadingGracious and Merciful Father,We come before you toconfessour 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.Weconfessthat we are slow to pray and quick to rely upon our own strength (Luke 22:31-46).We confess that we are slow to turn back to You when we fail and quick to hide i...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, As we come to the Lord's Table this Sunday, we also get to reflect on the first Lord's Supper celebrated by Jesus and His disciples in Luke 22:1-30. Although He is the Great King, Jesus reminds the disciples that He lives among His people "as the one who serves" (Luke 22:27). He lays aside His own comfort and, for the joy set before Him, h...
Keep ReadingGracious 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. Weconfessthat we often hide our sinful desires rather than walk in open communion with You (Luke 22:1-13). We confess that we frequently fail to serve others in tr...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, We will gather together in our 11:30 service this Sunday to participate in John Arthur (Artie) Maphet's baptism. Our in-person participation will be to bear witness to the fruits of Christ's death and resurrection in our lives and to encourage the Maphet and Arasmith families to do the same in Artie's life. As the whole-but-presently-scattered chur...
Keep ReadingGracious 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. Weconfessthat rather than making worship primary we often allow secondary matters to pull us away from praising You as oursovereign and gentle King (Luke 19:28-40)....
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