Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before You to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we have been slow to believe the good news of eternal life that Jesus has purchased for us by His death and resurrection (John 20:1-31). We confe...

Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before You to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we are slow to believe that Jesus has accomplished everything necessary for our salvation (John 19:16b-37).We confess these things before You beca...

Dear 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...

Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before You to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we are slow to meditate on Your love for us as it is revealed in the suffering Jesus willingly endured to accomplish our salvation (John 19:1-16)....

Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before You to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we often fail to honor Jesus as King by listening to His voice (John 18:28-40). We confess these things before You because You are faithful to fo...

Dear Baptized Ones, This Sunday we will have the privilege of witnessing the baptism of Beau Riley. It will be a joy to see Beau receive this sign and seal of God's promise to wash him clean of his sin and give him an eternal inheritance in Christ alone by faith alone. This baptism will not save Beau, but it will witness to him throughout his days of the Gospel, of th...

Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before You to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we have sometimes denied that we know the Truth that You have openly revealed to us through Your Word (John 18:15-27). We confess these things be...

Dear 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...

Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before You to confess our sin as Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of our sin and remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance.We confess that we are slow to believe all that Jesus has said about who He is and what He came into the world to do (John 18:1-14). We confess these things before...

Dear 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...