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 are often quick to speak our own minds and slow to listen to Your Word. (Jeremiah 23:21-22) We confess these things before You because Y...

Dear Baptized Ones, At our 10:30 am service this Sunday, we will have the joyous occasion to participate in Lucas Benjamin Oldham's baptism! One major benefit from this will be the opportunity to improve upon our own baptisms. Lucas's baptism will remind us of Jesus's death to suffer the full cost of our sin and of His resurrection to gift us God's righteousness and e...

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 often fail to appreciate how our justification, through faith alone, gives us Your righteousness and removes the weight of our sins (Romans 4:1...

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 often boast about what we've done to earn Your love instead of resting through faith in Your love given by grace as a gift in Christ (Romans 3:...

Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will at last reach what Martin Luther has called the most important paragraph in the Bible: Romans 3:21-26 from which we derive the declaration of our redemption by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. As part of our worship, we will have the privilege of coming to the Lord's Table in celebration of thi...

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 struggle to surrender our justification to Your grace alone through our faith alone in Christ alone (Romans 3:21-26). We confess these things ...

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 try to earn God's love through our obedience and condemn those who do not conform to our own standards of righteousness. (Romans 3:19-20). We co...