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Dear Family at Christ Community, We are invited this coming Sunday to gather in worship to hear the Lord God Almighty from Romans 14:1-4 as well as the other elements in our liturgy. By His grace, our Abba Father welcomes us also to His table to taste again of His redemptive goodness to us in Jesus the Christ. What a staggering image of the truly Strong welcoming the ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will celebrate God's love for us in Christ from John 3:16-21. As part of our celebration, we will prayerfully send the Stock family to share God's love in Malaysia. We will also receive the gift of Brian serving us the Lord's Supper. The celebration of God's love will continue with a picnic at Swift Cantrell Park followi...
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 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 ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, On Sunday, we who are clothed in Christ will be invited to the Lord's Table to have our faith nourished by the Holy Spirit through Jesus' offering of His body and blood. We will come to the table in response to Paul's challenge to us to be gracious witnesses in Christ's image from Romans 13:11-14. The elements from the table serve to r...
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 ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, As part of our worship on Sunday, we will have the privilege to participate in welcoming 4 children to the Lord's table by profession of faith. Andrew Baird, Eamon Jolly, Lars Jolly, and Violet Jolly have responded to their baptisms by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. We share in these eternal gifts as each of the...
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 Family at Christ Community, We will hear Simeon and Anna bear witness to Christ's first coming in Luke 2:22-40 this Sunday. Simeon and Anna both spent their lives waiting upon the Lord to bring consolation and redemption to His people. At long last, they got to behold God's salvation in Christ's first coming (2:30)! Although Christ has come once already, we join Si...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This week we will hear Zechariah's prophecy as he celebrates the birth of John the Baptist in Luke 1:57-80. Zechariah refers to Christ's first Advent as "the sunrise [that] shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death" (1:78-79). As we prepare to hear Zechariah's prophecy, it is frui...
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