Dear Baptized Ones, On Sunday, we will have the occasion to reflect again on our baptisms as we witness Frances DeMar's baptism. James and Catie confess in Frances' baptism their faith in and need of God's grace in raising their daughter. They trust that this means of grace will help cultivate Frances' knowledge of God's love and care for her as a covenant child. 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 the more You call to us, the more we go our own way (Hosea 11:1-7). We confess that we frequently surround You with lies ignoring Your comp...

Dear Family at Christ Community, We have the opportunity this Sunday to rejoice again through the bread and cup at what Christ has sown so that we could reap eternal life. As our worship focuses on Hosea 10, the prophet will challenge us in verse 12 to "sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord,...

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 from a false heart utter mere words and make covenants with empty oaths causing judgment to spring up like poisonous weeds (Hosea 10:...

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. Weconfessthat we often ignore the blessings of Your means of grace making them instead a painful means of judgment (Hosea 9:1-9). Weconfessthat we frequent...

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 worship You by hearing and obeying Your Word (Hosea 8:1-10). We confess that we frequently put our hope in the things ...

Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Supper. This means of grace visibly represents and seals upon our hearts the reality of our union and fellowship with Jesus. It is by union with Jesus that we are saved from the wrath to comesinners though we werebecause He has stood in our place and bore the penalty our s...

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 offer You heartless religious rites rather than a relationship born of steadfast love and knowledge as You desire (Hosea 6:4-7:1). ...

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 choose to run from You instead of returning to You after You have torn and struck us down because of our unfaithfulness (Hosea 6:1-2). We confess that we frequentl...

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 seek You while You may be found by the means of grace that You have given to us (Hosea 5:1-7). We confess that we at times...