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Dear Family at Christ Community, We will celebrate the Lord's Supper this Sunday as part of our worship service which will focus on Colossians 4:2-6. It is a passage that I return to often. Each time, I am challenged afresh by Paul's words as he calls us to be steadfast in prayer and watchful with thanksgiving. I, like many of you, am more like the disciples in the Gar...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, We will bring our series on the Abrahamic Covenant to a close with the Lord's Supper this Sunday. We will need the encouraging nourishment of the bread and cup following the challenge that will come from Jesus' words of commencement in Matthew 28:16-20. The Great Commission is delivered following Jesus' resurrection on a mountain in Gali...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, As we conclude our Advent Series in Matthew 2:13-23, I am struck by the cost of redemption. I am even more struck by how lightly I take the cost of redemption (if I even consider it all). Part of the problem is rooted in the idea that permeates Western Christianity that "redemption (or salvation) is free." The other part of the problem r...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, The Advent Season begins this coming Sunday, and we will focus on the birth of Jesus from The Gospel According to Matthew in Chapters 1 and 2 over the four Sundays before Christmas. While there are a number of different traditional ways to recognize and celebrate the purpose and meaning of the Advent of Jesus the Christ, the Lord's Sup...
Keep ReadingWe've prepared an Advent devotional for you and your family. Its purpose is to help us all grow in our understanding of and trust in God's faithfulness to His redemptive promises to His people as revealed in the first coming of Christ. This devotional is designed for daily reflection and response so as to saturate our minds and hearts with the beauty of the Christ King, wh...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, As we conclude our sermon series on the book of Job, we have the opportunity to partake of the Lord's Table. I can think of no more fitting way to conclude our time of wrestling with such weighty material. It has been deeply edifying and challenging for me as I hope that it has been for you. In preparing for the concluding sermon on Job...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, We have the opportunity this Sunday to again be reminded of the eternal provision of our great God in the meager elements of the Lord's Table. The bread and cup point us back to the Creator's initial promise in Genesis 1 to provide all that was necessary for life most abundant while also pointing us forward to the coming glory in which...
Keep ReadingDear Daughters and Sons of Our Heavenly Father, After we have heard from Job 19 about his only hope in a Redeemer before whom he will stand prior to death declaring him righteous in His justice, we will have the opportunity to come to the Lord's Table as the redeemed children of God declared righteous in Christ Jesus. It is critical for us to remember that Jesus is ...
Keep ReadingDear Family of Christ Community, This Sunday we will have the opportunity to enjoy the Lord's Supper together. We will be reminded of the finished work of Jesus the Christ on our behalf redeeming us while we were enemies of God. We will be reminded of the great sacrifice that Jesus offered in his broken body and shed blood so that we would not be defined by our brokenne...
Keep Reading(Click Image Above to Download Devotional) Great works of art often unsettle and destabilize us, forcing us to re-evaluate and rethink familiar truths. In addition, great works of art often comfort us with firmer foundations in the darkest valleys. This is the power and the beauty of the book of Job. Confronted by loss and despair, many have turned to this complex, ...
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