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 distrust You as Protector and Provider (Malachi 3:6-12). We confess all of these things before You because You are faithful to fo...
Keep ReadingGracious 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 speak hard words against You saying that righteousness is worthless and wickedness goes unpunished (Malachi 3:13-15). We confess th...
Keep ReadingDear 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...
Keep ReadingGracious 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 call evil good, because we think You are slow in delivering justice (Malachi 2:17-3:5). We confess all of these things before You becaus...
Keep ReadingGracious 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 think through how who we marry will affect our worship and ability to glorify You (Malachi 2:10-12). We confess that we fr...
Keep ReadingGracious 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...
Keep ReadingDear Family at Christ Community, This Sunday our worship will focus on the first imperative challenge in Malachi 1:6-14. Malachi challenged Israel (and the Holy Spirit challenges us) to examine the attitude and heart behind their worship. The questions that rise from the text are worthy of our consideration as we prepare for the Lord's Table. Do we think that God shou...
Keep ReadingGracious 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 honor You as Father by demanding that You be pleased with whatever we choose to offer You in worship (Malachi 1:6-14). ...
Keep ReadingGracious 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)....
Keep ReadingDear 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...
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