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 frequently question Your love for us (Malachi 1:2a). We confess that we often distort the evidence of Your love for us (Malachi 1:2b-5)....

Dear Family at Christ Community, We will start our new sermon series The Burden of Malachi: God's Unchanging Love for His Unstable People. As part of our worship, we will celebrate God's love for us in the death and resurrection of Christ as displayed in the Lord's Table. Malachi's burden is to share with God's people His unchanging love for them. Ultimately, it is Go...

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 lack a burden to share God's unchanging love with those in our spheres of influence (Malachi 1:1). We confess all of these things ...

Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before you toconfessoursinas Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict usofoursinand remind usofour pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we often fail to recognize the glory and power of Your promised Spirit (Acts 1:1-8). We confess that we are often more overwhelmed by our present circumsta...

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 lack awe and joy as a result of the resurrection of Jesus (Matthew 28:1-10). We confess that we frequently buy into the lies tha...

Dear Family at Christ Community, On Sunday, we will be confronted with the crucifixion, death, and burial of Christ inMatthew 27:32-66 which will prepare us well to receive the elements from the Lord's Table. We will taste of the broken bread that represents Christ's body so brutally broken for us and drink of the cup which reflects Jesus' shed blood so freely poured ou...

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 appreciate the depths of Jesus' suffering on the cross and the heights of our atonement purchased by His crucifixion (Matthew 2...

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 seek atonement and reconciliation in anyone or anything other than in Christ alone through Your grace alone (Matthew 27:1-10). We ...

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 out of our selfishness we destructively betray our relationship with You and our relationships with our neighbors (Matthew 26:47-56). We co...

Dear Family at Christ Community, We will begin our Easter Series on Sunday in Matthew 26:17-46 and with the Lord's Table. In both, God will declare that it is He who has first and lavishly loved us. In both, Jesus will welcome us to feast on the Word being nourished by all its benefits. In both, the Spirit will empower us to worship the Lord our God and love those a...