Confession of Sin: April 7th
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Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the opportunity to partake of the Lord's Table as we continue in our study of the story of Esther. The Table will be an encouraging means of grace to us as we reflect on the contrast between foolish king Ahasuerus and our King Jesus. King Ahasuerus implemented a commodifying contest in pursuit of a queen, but our King Jesus e...
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 slow to celebrate the dignity Jesus bestowed upon us by suffering for us to make us His bride (Esther 2:1-18). We confess these things before ...
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 slow to use our gifts in worship to lovingly build each other up in joy and festivity (1 Corinthians 12:27-31). We confess these things ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the opportunity to celebrate our unity as the family of God by partaking of the Lord's Table. This will be especially meaningful as we continue to hear from 1 Corinthians 12 about how Jesus has given us deep and lasting community in Him with God and with each other. So that we can approach the Table this Sunday with a festive s...
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 have often implicitly said, "I have no need of you," to brothers and sisters in Christ by our lack of participation in community (1 Corinthians 12...
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 have often implicitly said, "I have no need of you," to brothers and sisters in Christ by our lack of participation in community (1 Corinthians 12...
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 have often implicitly said, "I have no need of you," to brothers and sisters in Christ by our lack of participation in community (1 Corinthians 12...
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 acknowledge that You have given us gifts so that we might live before You in fellowship with one another (1 Corinthians 12:1-11). We...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, As we continue in our Advent series this Sunday, we will have the privilege of hearing from Ruth 3:14-18 and partaking of the Lord's Table. Two themes that will emerge from our sermon text are anticipation and hope. Anticipation because the text leaves us with Ruth and Naomi expectantly waiting to see how Ruth's bold action with respect to Boaz will ...
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 treat others with honor and love because we have not cultivated hope (Ruth 3:14-18). 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 slow to turn to You when we are feeling bitter or afflicted (Ruth 1:6-22).We confess these things before You because You are faithful to f...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table. Because Jesus has given us this means of grace to sustain our faith in Him, it will be a fitting complement to our sermon text from Matthew 28:16-20, which will teach us about the initiatory rite of baptism. While Jesus once-for-all marks us as His own in baptism, He continues...
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 faithfully pray for opportunities to demonstrate the fruit of reconciliation in hospitality and generosity to others (Romans 15:2...
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 have been slow to believe the good news of eternal life that Jesus has purchased for us by His death and resurrection (John 20:1-31). We confe...
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 slow to believe that Jesus has accomplished everything necessary for our salvation (John 19:16b-37).We confess these things before You beca...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table. It will be especially encouraging to our faith to receive this means of grace after we have heard from our text in John 19:16-37 about the crucifixion of Jesus. The broken bread and poured-out cup will speak a visible word that the story about Jesus's crucified body and shed b...
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 slow to meditate on Your love for us as it is revealed in the suffering Jesus willingly endured to accomplish our salvation (John 19:1-16)....
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 honor Jesus as King by listening to His voice (John 18:28-40). We confess these things before You because You are faithful to fo...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, This Sunday we will have the privilege of witnessing the baptism of Beau Riley. It will be a joy to see Beau receive this sign and seal of God's promise to wash him clean of his sin and give him an eternal inheritance in Christ alone by faith alone. This baptism will not save Beau, but it will witness to him throughout his days of the Gospel, of th...
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 have sometimes denied that we know the Truth that You have openly revealed to us through Your Word (John 18:15-27). We confess these things be...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, As we begin our Easter series this Sunday, we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table following the sermon from John 18:1-4. In these verses we will see Jesus stepping forward to willingly embrace the quick succession of events that will culminate with His death on the cross. In His high priestly prayer in John 17 Jesus had already...
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 slow to believe all that Jesus has said about who He is and what He came into the world to do (John 18:1-14). We confess these things before...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table. Our eager expectation is that through this means of grace the Lord Jesus will vivify in our hearts the reality that everything we need to have life to the full is given to us in Him. The broken bread and poured-out cup remind us of and seal us in the truth of all that Jesus' brok...
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 worship You by presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to You (Romans 12:1-2). We confess these things ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will resume our series in Paul's letter to the Romans and hear from Romans 12:1-2. In these words we will hear of God's call for us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to Him. As we do so we discover His transformative power to renew our minds. This renewal is critical to our growth in grace, enabling us to discern God's will...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, This Sunday we will have the privilege of witnessing the baptism of Ford Burns. What a joy it will be to see Ford receive this sign and seal of the covenant of grace, testifying to God's faithfulness to richly bless all who call upon Him for salvation by faith alone through Christ alone. While this baptism itself will not save Ford, it will remind ...
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 engage with one another as those who have been made family by our union with Christ (Matthew 12:46-50). We confess these things ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will come to the close of our brief sermon series on worship as Divine invitation and celebrate God's goodness together by partaking of the Lord's Table. We will also hear this Sunday from Hebrews 4:1-16, which will remind us of the deep and eternal implications worship holds for us who live and labor in the now and not yet of Christ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the opportunity to partake of the Lord's Table. Our series in Romans has lately taken us deeper into the great truth that God's sovereignty in the salvation of His people is the church's firm foundation for mission to a lost and broken world. The Lord's Table visibly teaches us this truth in the broken bread and poured-out ...
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 doubt that the Gospel is compelling enough to draw to faith in Christ those we think are hopelessly lost (Romans 10:5-13). We confess ...
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 have often depended for our salvation upon our own will and exertion and not upon You, who has mercy (Romans 9:14-18). We confess these things...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, This Sunday we will have the privilege of witnessing the baptism of Logan Rivera.What a joy it will be to testify of the goodness of the Lord to the Rivera family through the blessing that Logan is to their family and our church!Logan's baptism will also be an occasion for us to reflect upon our own baptisms and the new identity in Christ baptism s...
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 frequently allow our doubts to rob us of the assurance that nothing in all creation will be able to separate us from Your love for us in Christ...
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 celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as He intercedes for us to bring about Your glorious purposes for us (Rom. 8:26-30). ...
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 resent Your law for the way that it exposes our hidden sinfulness (Romans 7:7-12). We confess these things before You because You are fa...
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 consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus (Romans 6:5-11). We confess these things before You because You ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table. It will be especially encouraging for us to be invited to the Table after we hear God's Word from Micah 2. In Micah 2 God speaks a sobering word of judgment against those who oppress the weak and the marginalized. A covetous desire for more and more material possessions, combi...
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 have often added to injustice by coveting what You have given to others and fearing to lose what You have given to us. (Micah 2:1-13). We conf...
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 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...
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 make our own cares and concerns more important than following Jesus (Luke 9:57-62). We confess these things before You because You...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table.Our eager expectation is that this means of grace will further vivify in our hearts the message that we have been reconciled to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.The broken bread and the poured-out cup remind us, not only that the wrath of God against our s...
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 have often not seen fit to acknowledge You (Romans 1:28). We confess that we have often seen fit to cultivate every manner of relational...
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. (Silently confess individual sins) We confess that we have often put our hope in things other than the joyful life with You that Jesus came to secure for us (...
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 have often been slow to prepare ourselves to recognize Your Kingdom and the difference our salvation through Jesus has made to our lives (M...
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 quick to despair of Your promises and slow to remember Your faithful fulfillment of all that You have spoken in Your word for our redem...
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 slow to celebrate and rejoice in your holiness and glory (Isaiah 6:1-10). We confess these things before You because You are f...
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 complain that Your wisdom is bitter to swallow, rather than rejoicing that You have made it a feast for us (Proverbs 9:1-6). We confess th...
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 diligently pursue wisdom as the means You use to increase our joy in You (Proverbs 2:1-11). We confess that we are slow to culti...
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 anxious for kindness to be shown to us, but slow to extend kindness to others (Luke 6:27-31). We confess ...
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 are slow to call out to You in our distress (Jonah 1:17-2:10). We confess these things before You because You are f...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday, we will celebrate the sovereignty of God and the care He has taken to order the events of our lives so that we may be drawn into His redemptive mission for the life of the world. As part of our worship, we will have the opportunity to respond to Jonah 1:7-16 by partaking of the Lord's Table. In this means of grace, we see God's testimo...
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 are often slow to recognize Your sovereign hand in the events of our lives(Jonah 1:7-16). We confess these things b...
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 spiritually asleep and not prayerful (Jonah 1:4-6). We confess these things before You because You are ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday as we begin our sermon series in Jonah, we will have the opportunity to partake again of the Lord's Table. As we hear from the text in Jonah 1:1-3, we will be reminded of the perennial temptation, epitomized in Jonah's flight to Tarshish, to attempt to outrun the Lord and the missional call He has placed upon our lives. I...
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 be in awe of the wisdom You have displayed by our redemption in Christ (Ephesians 3:7-10). W...
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 slow to believe and rejoice in the delight You have taken in our salvation (Isaiah 53:10-11). We confess that we often fail run to t...
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 slow to value the Spirit's work in confirming Your Word in our hearts and lives (John 16:1-11). We confess that we are slow to draw ...
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 frequently fail to walk blamelessly before You in Christ (Gen. 17:1-8). We confess that we have often neglect...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will finish our series through 1 2 Peter and celebrate the Lord's Supper together. Our status as elect exiles means that Peter's closing call that we continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ is both comforting and urgent. It is comforting because our electionGod's choosing usassures us that He loves us and really wi...
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 sometimes attracted to false teaching which promises us freedom from the limits of discipleship (2 Peter 2:17-22). We confess these ...
Keep ReadingEach week during our service we confess as a congregation that we are sinful in comparison to a holy God and in eternal need of a Savior....
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, This Sunday we will have the privilege of witnessing the baptism of Zoey Weathers. As a means of grace, baptism helps us to see and have assurance that the blood of Christ really does cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Baptism itself will not save Zoey, but it will remind her all her days that it is only through the washing regeneration accomplishe...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table. The Table invites us to reflect upon the fact that we are the free sons and daughters of God. In Christ, we are free from all condemnation, no matter what our present circumstances may be. We have been invited to feast upon Christ, who has been given all rule and au...
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 resent Your command to submit to human authority, forgetting that our submission brings about good for the life of the world (1 Peter...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, As we conclude our series in Malachi this Sunday, we will again partake of the Lord's Table. The Table is a means of God's grace and through it He helps us to cling to Jesus. Clinging to Jesus is sometimes the best way to describe our Christian experience. We may be going through difficulties that tempt us to question, as the Israelite...
Keep ReadingGracious and Merciful Father, We come before you toconfessoursinas Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of oursinand remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. Weconfessthat our confidence in You often wavers because we think more about our present earthly circumstances than Your promises about the future (Malachi 4:1-3). ...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, During the month of June, we will have the privilege of witnessing several baptisms. Each baptism will remind us that the forgiveness we have all received from God is not a trick of the mind but a vivid reality; we really need to be cleansed of our sin, we really need to be raised to new life, and God really has done these things and we really are ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will hear from Malachi 2:17 3:5 and share in the Lord's Table. This Table invites us to reflect on our privileged position as God's people and to know the truth of the indicative spoken over God's people in Malachi 1:2, "I have loved you." The Table is a firm answer to the doubt we sometimes feel about the truth of this...
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 do not stand in awe of Your name (Malachi 2:1-9). We confess all of these things before You because You are faithful to forgive us...
Keep ReadingGracious and Merciful Father, We come before you toconfessoursinas Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict usofoursinand remind usofour pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we often fail to recognize the glory and power of Your promised Spirit (Acts 1:1-8). We confess that we are often more overwhelmed by our present circumsta...
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 seek and pray for the blessing of all people as you have blessed us (Psalm 67:1-3). We confess that we are slow to be glad...
Keep ReadingGracious and Merciful Father, We come before you toconfessoursinas Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of oursinand remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we have often been unable to contribute to the spiritual growth of the church because we have not been daily holding fast to Jesus (Colossians 2:1...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will hear from Colossians 2:8-15 and partake of the Lord's Table. The bread and the cup signify and seal upon our hearts the fact that we have been filled in Christ. We were once dead, unclean, and outside God's fellowship. But in Jesus, God has made us alive, clean,and brought us near to Him. The elements of the Table hel...
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