10.4 Pastoral Prayer
Communion Church
Lord, You existed before, and have existed through, all the ages. You created all things. You give common grace to all humanity: you make the sun to shine and the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. You brought and secured saving grace to a people of your possession, redeeming them from corruption, […]
9.20 Pastoral Prayer
Communion Church
Lord, Thank you for being merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Thank you for forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. Thank you for being just. Please keep the Fikkert family safe on their sabbatical, and please make it a special and rejuvenating experience for them. Please help families […]
9.6 Pastoral Prayer
Communion Church
Lord, The earth is yours and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. Nothing is outside of your knowledge or control. Please enable our spirits and our minds to be still and know that you are God. You will be exalted among the nations; you will be exalted in the earth, through […]
8.16 Pastoral Prayer
Communion Church
Lord, Thank you for being merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Thank you for forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. Thank you for being just. Please keep the Fikkert family safe on their sabbatical, and please make it a special and rejuvenating experience for them. Please help families […]
8.9 Pastoral Prayer
Communion Church
Father, By your grace we are recipients of forgiveness and reconciliation because of Jesus’ death, resurrection and imputed righteousness. How you can consider Jesus’ righteousness to be ours is a mystery, and speaks to the magnitude of Jesus’ sufficiency and your goodness. Thank you that this gospel received and believed gives us confidence to approach […]
8.2 Pastoral Prayer
Communion Church
LORD, We know that you are God, and that there is no other. You declare the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done. And we know that you desire us to pray to you, casting our anxieties on you, and that you work through means like prayer. COVID-19 continues to […]
A few thoughts going into sabbatical
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. | Hebrews 13:17 Back in November, I wrote a blog post about […]
7.26 Pastoral Prayer
Communion Church
Father, Our love can be fickle and hypocritical. Please enable our love of you and others to be genuine. We can easily overlook the sin in our hearts and be deceived into thinking that what is truly sin, isn’t. Please enable us to recognize and abhor what is evil, in all its forms. Please cause […]
7.19 Pastoral Prayer
Communion Church
LORD God, It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the […]
10 takeaways from Job
Pastor Jim Fikkert
The book of Job can be a difficult to book to read through: it is long, dark, repetitious, and contains a great deal of verbal processing. All of the things that make it difficult to read, make it fascinating to study through. Over the last 3 months, as the world has been caught up in […]
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