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 struggle to forgive others their trespasses against us because we don't truly believe that You have forgiven us of ours against You. (Matthe...

Dear Baptized Ones, On Sunday, you are invited to participate in the baptism of Clara Kate Laughlin. Micah and Emilee humbly recognize that this covenant sign declares that Clara can only be justified by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. This proves true even before and most assuredly after she could perform any deeds of righteous or unrighteous subst...

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 deny our self-righteous works and identities as we take up our crosses of humility in forgiveness to love God and others in a more C...

Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will begin our new sermon series "Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus: Forgiveness, Repentance, Suffering and Joy." As part of our worship in Luke 9:23-27, we will seek nourishment from the Lord's Table to help us grow as Jesus's disciples who daily mortify our self-centeredness and take up our crosses in love and service ...

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 deny our self-centeredness and take up our crosses daily in order to better follow Jesus through the indwelling Holy Spirit, the mea...

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 our we are slow to fan into flame the gift of our salvation so that we may be filled with joy and love in You (2 Timothy 1:1-14). We confess these th...

Dear Family at Christ Community, We will conclude our three-part series on 1 Corinthians 13 this Sunday. In verses 8-13, Paul extols love as the greatest of all the gifts the Lord gives us. The purpose of all God's other gifts is to help us know that we are already fully known and perfectly loved in Christ (verse 12). God's perfect love for us means we are set free to wal...

Gracious 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 frequently downplay the eternal significance of walking in love in ordinary life (1 Corinthians 13:8-13). Weconfessthese things before You because You...