The Communion and Baptism Letter for April 14th, 2024....
The Weekly Confession of Sin for Christ Community Church. ...
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 pause now to silently confess our individual sins before confessing together as a congregation from the text in the Gospel of Mark. We confess that we often doubt...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will hear Jesus's warning about the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod from Mark 8:11-21. Commentators contextualize these leavens as religious doubts about the Lordship of Jesus and worldly fears born of political circumstances. I suspect that most of us have wrestled (or are wrestling) with one or both these concerns. It...
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 confess that we often allow religious doubts and worldly fears to harden our hearts and blind us to Jesus's work in our lives. (Mark 8:11-21) We confess these thi...
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 confess that we often fail to compassionately love every tongue, tribe, and nation in union with Him. (Mark 8:1-10) We confess these things before You because You...
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 confess that we are often so focused on our problems that we fail to see that Jesus does all things well (Mark 7:31-34). We confess these things before You becaus...
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