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Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will get to come to the Lord's Table as we conclude the first part of our Romans series. Romans 5:18-21 will help us behold the marvels of Christ's perfect and finished work on our behalf and God's abundant grace toward us. God's graceHis undeserved favor to us in Christis at the heart of the gospel. Indeed, in Romans 5:...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, During our worship service this Sunday, we will have the opportunity to hear how the Lord has been good to and through the Sawyers as they serve as missionaries in Kenya. We will also get to come to the Lord's Table as part of our worship. It will be especially sweet to come to the Table with brothers and sisters whom we support throug...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, We will celebrate the Lord's Table together as part of our worship in Romans 4:13-15 on Sunday. Jesus, as gracious host, invites each of us to taste and see that the Lord is good through faith in His finished work! Though we bring nothing to warrant our place at the table, Christ eternally assures our welcome as signified in the bread an...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will at last reach what Martin Luther has called the most important paragraph in the Bible: Romans 3:21-26 from which we derive the declaration of our redemption by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. As part of our worship, we will have the privilege of coming to the Lord's Table in celebration of thi...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, On Sunday, we will hear from Romans 3:5-8 the danger of ignoring our ongoing need for confession of sin and repentance. The Lord's Table will invite us to remember our forgiveness and resurrection to newness of life in Christ. Both of these realities make our ongoing confession of sin effective in freeing us from present shame, guilt, ...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, We will gather at the Lord's Table this Sunday as part of our worship in Romans 2:12-16. Jesus invites us to come be nourished by the elements in the power of the Holy Spirit to do the good works that have been prepared for us as His beloved saints. The bread provides a reminder of our eternal forgiveness. This affords us the ability t...
Keep ReadingDear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table.Our eager expectation is that this means of grace will further vivify in our hearts the message that we have been reconciled to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.The broken bread and the poured-out cup remind us, not only that the wrath of God against our s...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, What a gift to celebrate the Lord's Supper as part of our return to worshipping at the Ben Robertson Community Center! The table's elements will help remind us that the Good News has been entrusted to us for the life of the world. Our freedom from shame, guilt, and the fear of God's wrath in the death of Christ as signified by the brok...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, On Easter Sunday, we will have the joy of celebrating the Lord's Table at each of our in-person worship services. We will see in our text from Luke 24:1-35 how the risen Lord can only be seen through the illuminating grace of the Holy Spirit. Despite the disciples' knowledge of Jesus' words and Jesus explaining how God's Word reveals Him...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, As we come to the Lord's Table this Sunday, we also get to reflect on the first Lord's Supper celebrated by Jesus and His disciples in Luke 22:1-30. Although He is the Great King, Jesus reminds the disciples that He lives among His people "as the one who serves" (Luke 22:27). He lays aside His own comfort and, for the joy set before Him, h...
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