Posts by Robby Baxter

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. (Silently confess individual sins) We confess that we have often put our hope in things other than the joyful life with You that Jesus came to secure for us (...

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 often been slow to prepare ourselves to recognize Your Kingdom and the difference our salvation through Jesus has made to our lives (M...

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 quick to despair of Your promises and slow to remember Your faithful fulfillment of all that You have spoken in Your word for our redem...

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 often slow to celebrate and rejoice in your holiness and glory (Isaiah 6:1-10). We confess these things before You because You are f...

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 complain that Your wisdom is bitter to swallow, rather than rejoicing that You have made it a feast for us (Proverbs 9:1-6). We confess 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 often fail to diligently pursue wisdom as the means You use to increase our joy in You (Proverbs 2:1-11). We confess that we are slow to culti...

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 anxious for kindness to be shown to us, but slow to extend kindness to others (Luke 6:27-31). We confess ...

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 are slow to call out to You in our distress (Jonah 1:17-2:10). We confess these things before You because You are f...

Dear Family at CCC, This Sunday, we will celebrate the sovereignty of God and the care He has taken to order the events of our lives so that we may be drawn into His redemptive mission for the life of the world. As part of our worship, we will have the opportunity to respond to Jonah 1:7-16 by partaking of the Lord's Table. In this means of grace, we see God's testimo...

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 are often slow to recognize Your sovereign hand in the events of our lives(Jonah 1:7-16). We confess these things 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 often spiritually asleep and not prayerful (Jonah 1:4-6). We confess these things before You because You are ...

Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday as we begin our sermon series in Jonah, we will have the opportunity to partake again of the Lord's Table. As we hear from the text in Jonah 1:1-3, we will be reminded of the perennial temptation, epitomized in Jonah's flight to Tarshish, to attempt to outrun the Lord and the missional call He has placed upon our lives. I...

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 be in awe of the wisdom You have displayed by our redemption in Christ (Ephesians 3:7-10). W...

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 and rejoice in the delight You have taken in our salvation (Isaiah 53:10-11). We confess that we often fail run to t...

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 value the Spirit's work in confirming Your Word in our hearts and lives (John 16:1-11). We confess that we are slow to draw ...

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 fail to walk blamelessly before You in Christ (Gen. 17:1-8). We confess that we have often neglect...

Dear Family at CCC, This Sunday we will finish our series through 1 2 Peter and celebrate the Lord's Supper together. Our status as elect exiles means that Peter's closing call that we continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ is both comforting and urgent. It is comforting because our electionGod's choosing usassures us that He loves us and really wi...

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 sometimes attracted to false teaching which promises us freedom from the limits of discipleship (2 Peter 2:17-22). We confess these ...

Each week during our service we confess as a congregation that we are sinful in comparison to a holy God and in eternal need of a Savior....

Dear Baptized Ones, This Sunday we will have the privilege of witnessing the baptism of Zoey Weathers. As a means of grace, baptism helps us to see and have assurance that the blood of Christ really does cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Baptism itself will not save Zoey, but it will remind her all her days that it is only through the washing regeneration accomplishe...

Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will have the privilege of partaking of the Lord's Table. The Table invites us to reflect upon the fact that we are the free sons and daughters of God. In Christ, we are free from all condemnation, no matter what our present circumstances may be. We have been invited to feast upon Christ, who has been given all rule and au...

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 resent Your command to submit to human authority, forgetting that our submission brings about good for the life of the world (1 Peter...

Dear Family at Christ Community, As we conclude our series in Malachi this Sunday, we will again partake of the Lord's Table. The Table is a means of God's grace and through it He helps us to cling to Jesus. Clinging to Jesus is sometimes the best way to describe our Christian experience. We may be going through difficulties that tempt us to question, as the Israelite...

Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before you toconfessoursinas Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of oursinand remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. Weconfessthat our confidence in You often wavers because we think more about our present earthly circumstances than Your promises about the future (Malachi 4:1-3). ...

Dear Baptized Ones, During the month of June, we will have the privilege of witnessing several baptisms. Each baptism will remind us that the forgiveness we have all received from God is not a trick of the mind but a vivid reality; we really need to be cleansed of our sin, we really need to be raised to new life, and God really has done these things and we really are ...

Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will hear from Malachi 2:17 3:5 and share in the Lord's Table. This Table invites us to reflect on our privileged position as God's people and to know the truth of the indicative spoken over God's people in Malachi 1:2, "I have loved you." The Table is a firm answer to the doubt we sometimes feel about the truth of this...

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 do not stand in awe of Your name (Malachi 2:1-9). We confess all of these things before You because You are faithful to forgive us...

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 fail to seek and pray for the blessing of all people as you have blessed us (Psalm 67:1-3). We confess that we are slow to be glad...

Gracious and Merciful Father, We come before you toconfessoursinas Your redeemed and beloved children. May Your Spirit alone convict us of oursinand remind us of our pardon in Christ through repentance. We confess that we have often been unable to contribute to the spiritual growth of the church because we have not been daily holding fast to Jesus (Colossians 2:1...

Dear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday we will hear from Colossians 2:8-15 and partake of the Lord's Table. The bread and the cup signify and seal upon our hearts the fact that we have been filled in Christ. We were once dead, unclean, and outside God's fellowship. But in Jesus, God has made us alive, clean,and brought us near to Him. The elements of the Table hel...