The Communion and Baptism Letter for April 14th, 2024....
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Dear Baptized Ones, On Sunday, we will join together to celebrate the baptism of Genesis Blackman with her parents Chris and Kelsey as part of our worship in Joel 1:13-20. In this passage, Joel calls for us to use various means of grace (lamentation, fasting, prayer, and worship) to cry out to the Lord in repentance. In fuller revelation of Jesus Christ, Genesis' bapt...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, On Sunday, we have the opportunity to improve upon our own baptisms as we take part in the baptism of Griffin Clay Oldham as part of our worship in Ephesians 1:3-10. What a joy this will be for our congregation many of whom prayed for God to bless Clay and Barbie with a child! As Griffin's parents, they desire to bless the Lord who answered these p...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, This Sunday we will have the joy of witnessing Wes Calton baptize his daughter Ann McClain Louise Calton as part of our worship service. We will be reminded of our infant-like dependency on God our Father and utter inability to save ourselves as Anne passively receives the water upon her head in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Though ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, In worship this Sunday, we have the joy of celebrating the baptisms of Jack and Caleb Clemens after which we will join them at the Lord's Table. Their baptisms will bear witness to the redemptive power of Jesus Christ to repair the various relationships fractured in the Fall. This will prove especially fitting given our sermon text fro...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, This coming Sunday we have the joyous opportunity to celebrate God's promised love in Christ through Becca Lapcevic's baptism. She confessed within the last year or so that she is saved in Christ alone by faith alone through God's grace alone. Her baptism will signify and seal outwardly what has become for her an eternal inward reality through the ...
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 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 Baptized Ones, We have the privilege this Sunday of witnessing Chloe Turner's baptism as part of our worship in Colossians 3:12-17. She has previously professed faith in Jesus Christ alone by faith alone through God's grace alone. She is pursuing baptism as a sign and seal of her being set apart in Christ to walk in newness of life to the glory of God. This empow...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, On Sunday, we will have the occasion to reflect again on our baptisms as we witness Frances DeMar's baptism. James and Catie confess in Frances' baptism their faith in and need of God's grace in raising their daughter. They trust that this means of grace will help cultivate Frances' knowledge of God's love and care for her as a covenant child. Th...
Keep ReadingDear Baptized Ones, We have the opportunity to improve upon our baptisms this Sunday in gathered worship as Wes Calton will baptize his and Kelly's third born son Whitley Benjamin. While baptism will not save Whit, it will serve as a sign of the Lord calling him to respond in repentance from sin and by faith in God's saving grace through the work of Christ alone. ...
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