Add PHBC prayers of confession

PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20250601.md

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+Father,
+
+We come to You as reconciled enemies.
+Our old hearts were terminally driven toward a hopeless war against You.
+We were unfailingly loyal to Adam's Rebellion.
+We were without hope, forever bound in the grip of sin and guilt.
+In every thought and deed, even when benevolent to man, we sought to dethrone
+You.
+But for Your grace, we had no capacity to turn to You.
+
+Unlike You, we, even now, fail to love our enemies as Your Son told us to.
+We return evil for evil, and sometimes even evil for good.
+We hold onto our grievances against others.
+We pine for justice, even against those for whom justice is already satisfied
+through the cross of Christ.
+
+We have wielded the tongue carelessly and brought reproach upon Your name.
+
+As the hands and feet of Your Son, who loves us, He would set us to the task of
+caring for one another.
+We neglect this task.
+
+We have played the sluggard and have not utilized our time well.
+We have prioritized trivial things over our responsibilities.
+We have given more thought to the things that please us than to the things that
+please You.
+
+When we do the things that You command, we often are consumed by pride.
+We focus wrongly on the excellence of our work when and fail to beseech You,
+that You would bless it with fruit.
+
+We take lightly the blood of Your Son.
+We give far to little thought the enormity of the price for which we were
+bought, when we turn back to the ways of the nature of our first birth.
+
+When we do well, we think ourselves sufficient before You.
+Though we would never put it to words, we adopt attitudes of thinking we
+are worthy of our spot at the Table, rather than recognizing that this Table is
+an indictment against us that proclaims our unworthiness.
+
+Now we ask that You would receive us again.
+We ask that You would count us among those for whom Christ is high priest.
+We who were washed now reaffirm our reliance on the blood of our King.
+Help us as we remember the price of our redemption, as we partake and thereby
+proclaim that it is for us that the Lamb died.
+Here we see our guilt and our pardon.
+We come to You knowing that our plea for mercy is worthless, but the plea of
+our great High Priest and His Sacrifice on our behalf is worthy.
+
+It is in Your righteous Son Christ Jesus that that we come to You.
+Amen.