The Communion and Baptism Letter for April 14th, 2024....
The Weekly Confession of Sin for Christ Community Church. ...
Dear Family at Christ Community, This week we will hear God's gracious and sovereign call to seek Him with righteousness and humility in Christ alone. The stark warning in Zephaniah 1:1-18 now gives rise to a sober call to seek the Lord in 2:1-3. What joy there is in knowing that our God not only warns us of His coming wrath and judgment against sin but also soverei...
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 look to things of the earth when our hopes are dashed rather than waiting upon You alone for salvation (Micah 7:1-17). We confess t...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday is our final corporate worship service of the year and the conclusion of our Advent series in Micah. Micah 7 will remind us that God's judgment summons us to wait upon Him alone for salvation. In verse 14, the promise of the coming shepherd in 2:12 and 5:4 leads Micah and the faithful remnant to ask God to "shepherd your pe...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will get to come to the Lord's Table as we conclude the first part of our Romans series. Romans 5:18-21 will help us behold the marvels of Christ's perfect and finished work on our behalf and God's abundant grace toward us. God's graceHis undeserved favor to us in Christis at the heart of the gospel. Indeed, in Romans 5:...
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 try to fix our sin on our own rather than resting in Christ's finished work (Romans 5:18-19).We confess that we frequently fail to run to You...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, During our worship service this Sunday, we will have the opportunity to hear how the Lord has been good to and through the Sawyers as they serve as missionaries in Kenya. We will also get to come to the Lord's Table as part of our worship. It will be especially sweet to come to the Table with brothers and sisters whom we support throug...
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 often use the means of grace as things that we have to do rather thanas gifts that remind us that our justification is through faith alone (Romans ...
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 suppress the truth that You reveal so that we can follow our own desires instead (Romans 1:18-20). We confess that we tend to ignore...
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 forget that the Holy Spirit empowers us as Your witnesses in our spheres of influence (Luke 24:36-49). We confess that we tend to pin...
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 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)....
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 trouble our own households with our selfish ambition and bitter jealousy (Proverbs 11:29). We confess thatas parents and chil...
Keep ReadingJanuary 31st - Baptism Letter Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will have the opportunity to celebrate God's goodness at the 10:30 worship service as Benet Hollis O'Sullivan receives the sign and seal of baptism. Baptism will not save Benet. Nevertheless, from this point forward in his life, baptism will point Benet to his only hope in life: the person and ...
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 devote ourselves to our temporary concerns more than the eternal salvation of our neighbors (1 Corinthians 9:19-23).We confess that we freque...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community Church, This Sunday we will have the opportunity to celebrate the fruitfulness of God's compassion and mission at the Lord's Table. Jonah 4:5-11 will show us the great depths God is willing to go to restore even one lost sinner (or in this case, one wayward and self-righteous prophet!) to Himself. God's patient compassion and true justi...
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 our anger often leads us away from participating in Your mission (Jonah 4:5-6). We confess that we tend to put more ...
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 fail to apply and live out what we know to be true from Your Word (Jonah 4:1-3). We confess that rather than ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community Church, This Sunday we will have the opportunityto celebrate our restoration to God by partaking of the Lord's Table. Jonah 3:6-10 will remind us of the role repentance plays in our restoration to God. We have already seen how God has graciously restored Jonah to Himself despite Jonah's wayward rebellion and sin. Now we will see how God...
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 presume upon Your compassion and do not take the time to repent from our sins (Jonah 3:6-9). We confess tha...
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 grow apathetic towards the opportunities for renewal and restoration that You give us by Your grace (Jonah 3...
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 do not act wisely but selfishly fail to share the good news of Christ's humiliation and exaltation for the ...
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 we often set our hearts on whatever we find attractive rather than seeking first your Kingdom and glory (Genesis 6:1-10). Weconfessthat we frequently fai...
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 repay evil with evil and reviling with reviling rather than entrusting ourselves to Your love. (1 Peter 3:8-12) 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 frequently grow weary in loving one another well (1 Peter1:22). We confess that we often forget that we have been born again of Your imp...
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 out of our selfishness we destructively betray our relationship with You and our relationships with our neighbors (Matthew 26:47-56). We co...
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 act as though we are still alienated from you and do evil deeds instead of walking in newness of life (Colossians1:21). 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 struggle to wait upon Your covenant love as the only true source of hope and transformation in our lives (Hosea 12:2-6). We confess that...
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 by our words and deeds we often accuse Jesus of not being enough for us (Mark 15:1-5). We confess that we often put our trust in the ways a...
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