Communion & Baptism Letter: April 14th
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Confession of Sin: April 7th
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Communion Letter: March 10th
Dear Family at Christ Community, Before we feast upon the bread and cup of our Lord this Sunday, we will encounter Haman's pride in Esther 5:9-14. After Mordecai rattles his confidence, Haman jumps at an outrageous solution to deal with Mordecai and reinflate his pride. Ian Duguid points out in Esther Ruth that Haman's plan was misguided from the start. The execution h...
Keep ReadingCommunion Letter: February 25th
Dear Family at Christ Community, On Sunday, we will be in Esther 4 where the distress born of Haman's murderous edict reaches the Queen. This chapter progresses God's call at the end of Chapter 2 to wait in faithful obedience on His kind providences. God's people now wait with a guillotine literally hanging over their heads. The level of distress calls for the use of fa...
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Dear 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 ReadingCommunion Letter: January 21st
Dear Family at Christ Community, We will begin our Easter Season series in the book of Esther this Sunday. In Esther 1:1-9, we will encounter the first two of ten banquets that serve as the spine that holds the story together and helps move it along. These first two banquets reveal the garish celebrations of foolish King Ahasuerus who revels in his wealth and power as i...
Keep ReadingCommunion Letter: January 7th
Dear 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 ReadingCommunion Letter: December 17th
Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will focus on Ruth 4:7-12 in worship. Boaz pays the price to redeem not just Elimilech's land and Ruth as his wife but also a heritage of hope from a dying family line. As part of our time together, we will participate in the Lord's Supper at the invitation of Jesus to remember that we participate in this heritage of hope....
Keep ReadingCommunion Letter: December 3rd
Dear 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 ReadingCommunion Letter: November 12th
Dear Family at Christ Community, On Sunday, we will continue our journey through the book of Ruth. We will be introduced in Ruth 2:1-13 to Boaz, a man after God's own heart, for the first time as well as seeing the biblical nature of Ruth's character. Boaz serves as God's ordinary means by which He providentially provides for Ruth and Naomi in the immediate. Ruth exempl...
Keep ReadingCommunion Letter: October 29th
Dear Family at Christ Community, We begin our journey in the book of Ruth this Sunday. As part of our worship in Ruth 1:1-5, we will seek nourishment from the Lord's Table to help us experience the love of Jesus whom Ruth points forward to. Consider this quote from John Currid in Ruth: From Bitter to Sweet to help prepare you for the table: May we grasp the truth that G...
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