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Dear Family at Christ Community, This week we will begin our Advent series in the Gospel of Luke. Luke tells us that he wrote his Gospel so that we would have certainty concerning the things we have been taught about God and the Gospel (Luke 1:4). As we will see, this means we should bring our doubts to God's Word in faith, rather than hiding them in fear. All too ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will come to the close of our brief sermon series on worship as Divine invitation and celebrate God's goodness together by partaking of the Lord's Table. We will also hear this Sunday from Hebrews 4:1-16, which will remind us of the deep and eternal implications worship holds for us who live and labor in the now and not yet of Christ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will gather to hear God's Word from Psalm 84 as well as the other aspects of our liturgy including the Lord's Table. Communion tangibly reminds us of God's presence with us in Christ. Donald M. Williams describes this reality in The Preacher's Commentary: Psalms 73-150: Like Israel of old, as we gather in (Jesus's) n...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, As we begin Worship: A Divine Invitation, we will hear of a beautiful historical example of the people of God engaging joyfully in worship as a blessed necessity from 2 Chronicles 30. The chapter begins with Hezekiah, the King of Judah, reinstituting the Passover for the first time since Solomon's reign (approximately 200 years!) and t...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, We will conclude our series on Romans 9-11 this Sunday with Romans 11:25-36 in which Paul will exemplify how the deepest theological mysteries ought to give way to hopeful and expectant worship. As Timothy Keller writes on this passage in Romans 8-16 for You: Paul does not find the deepest impulses for praise in looking at human accom...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will gather at God's invitation to participate in worship to be further shaped as redemptive instruments for His glory, our joy, and the life of the world. As part of our liturgy, we will hear from Romans 11:13-24 the call to mortify our pride to help cultivate our relationships with Him and those in our spheres of influ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, As we hear and experience God's grace from Romans 11:1-6 on Sunday, we will be invited to the Lord's Table to be further transformed by His grace. The Holy Spirit will lovingly remind us in the broken bread of Jesus' body given for us to unburden us from our shameful failures to love and our guilty attempts to earn His love. In the lav...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the opportunity to partake of the Lord's Table. Our series in Romans has lately taken us deeper into the great truth that God's sovereignty in the salvation of His people is the church's firm foundation for mission to a lost and broken world. The Lord's Table visibly teaches us this truth in the broken bread and poured-out ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This coming Sunday we will hear of God's free grace in salvation and the terrible cost of demanding to earn it instead from Romans 9:27-33. As part of our worship, the Lord's Table will help make visible God's free offer of salvation in Christ alone by faith alone through His grace alone. The broken bread will once again declare our ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, On Sunday, we will hear the testimony of God's redemptive faithfulness and grace from Romans 9:6-13. Paul will point us to God's promises kept through His electing grace alone among the Patriarchs and preservation of His promised seed over the generations. While there is a deep mystery to God's saving work that sparks many questions ...
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