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Weekend Preview (2) – VBS and Confession

June 15, 2016 by Phil Auxier

LIfeway VBS 2016

Yesterday, I mentioned some previews related to our Baby Dedication and my AM sermon.  Today, I wanted to remind everyone that Crestview’s VBS begins this Sunday, 6/19/16, at 6:30PM.  Lots of preparations are underway for this.  And tonight, there’s a time to help everyone set things up at 6:30PM.  We call this the VBS work night.  If you’re able, you can start to get a feel for the theme and other information.  We love the partnership with Lifeway to deliver a VBS that connects children to the Gospel.

Further, we are taking the Lord’s Supper this Sunday and will be using this confession of faith from Coram Deo Church in Omaha, NE.

(based on 1 Corinthians 15:1-6…)
We profess and affirm the good news
that we have received,
in which we stand,
and by which we are saved,
if we hold fast:
that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,
that he was buried,
that he was raised on the third day.
We believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Jesus Christ is the first and the last, the beginning and the end;
he is our Lord and our God.
We hope you can join us for an amazing day this coming Sunday.

Filed Under: confession, VBS, Weekend Preview

Help When Sin Is Confessed…

March 17, 2011 by Phil Auxier

…from The Blazing Center…
Do Respond Humbly

Do Identify With Their Struggle

Don’t Act Shocked

Don’t Blow It Off

Do Follow Up Later

Do Remember the Gospel

The post gives additional insight on each of these. I have found that I do well at some of these, but don’t do a good job of following up later. So, we need to be inviting those who are struggling with sin, but we can’t be satisfied with mere confession (as important as it is). We must be an instrument in God’s hands for their sanctification. So, let’s pursue this…

Filed Under: confession, mortification, Stephen Altrogge

Confession as a path to change…

March 2, 2011 by Phil Auxier

Over at the Desiring God blog, they posted part 1 of The Grace of Confession by Paul Tripp. Meanwhile on Take Your Vitamin Z, Zach Nielsen posted an excerpt from Tripp’s book, What Did You Expect, highlighting this same truth (No Change Without Confession). Here’s the excerpt:

The couple is stuck in a cycle of repeating the same things over and over again. They repeat the same misunderstandings. They rehearse and re-rehearse the same arguments. They repeat the same wrongs. Again and again things are not resolved. Night after night they go to bed with nothing reconciled; they awake with memories of another bad moment, and they march toward the next time when the cycle will be repeated. It all becomes predictable and discouraging. They hate the cycle. They wish things were what they once were. Their minds swing between nostalgia and disappointment. They want things to be different, but they don’t seem to know how to break free, and they don’t seem willing to do the one thing that makes change possible—confess.

They tell themselves they will do better. They promise they will spend more time together. They promise they will pray together for a moment before they start their day. They decide to spend more time together outside the house. They promise they will talk more. But it is not long before all the promises fade away. It is not long before they are in the same place again. All their commitments to change have been subverted by the one thing they seem unwilling to do: take the focus off the other and put it on themselves. Here is the point: no change takes place in a marriage that does not begin with confession.

Confession is the doorway to growth and change in your relationship. It is essential. It is fundamental. Without it you are relegated to a cycle of repeated and deepening patterns of misunderstanding, wrong, and conflict. With it, the future is bright and hopeful, no matter how big the issues that you are now facing.

Confess sin and see if God doesn’t work to impart grace and begin to change you.

Filed Under: confession, Paul Tripp, Z

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Yeah, that's right. My one, consuming passion is Jesus Christ, my Lord. I'm totally gripped by one message: the Gospel - the good news that God came after me when I was far from Him. So, the life I live, I live by faith in Him: He loved me and gave Himself for me.

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