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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...

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 put away the things that separate us and long for what You have provided to unite us through salvation in Christ (1 Pete...

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 grow weary in loving one another well (1 Peter1:22). We confess that we often forget that we have been born again of Your imp...

Dear Family at Christ Community, On Sunday, we will gather to be nourished by the word read, confessed, prayed, sung, preached, and witnessed in the Lord's Table. In 1 Peter 1:13-21, our sermon text, Peter transitions from the foundational indicatives of God's redeeming love for us to the imperatives of how then we should live in response to God's love. We will be cha...

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 prepare our minds for action and be sober-minded with our hope fully on Christ's grace to be revealed at His return (1 P...

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 search for and inquire carefully of the grace that is ours through the sufferings of Christ and subsequent glories so as...

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 live as those who have been born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, choosing...

Dear Family at Christ Community, We will begin our new sermon series The Pilgrim Letters: 1st and 2nd Peter this coming Sunday. It is good for us to be nourished by the bread and cup as we begin this journey to remind us of what ultimately defines us both now and in the resurrection to come. Edmund Clowney in The Message of 1 Peter: The Way of the Cross describes us a...

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 remember who we are in You, that we dwell in a fallen world for Your redemptive purposes in the power of the Holy Spir...

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 in our spiritually dry seasons to remember Your faithfulness in our salvation (Psalm 42:1-6). We confess that we often f...