Hey all, it's good to be back I think after all, I was told about that ankle monitor Tom mentioned in his sermon last week. Yeah, not happening. But anyway, here I am and we're looking at another well-known, often ignored passage as part of our summer series on Biblical Priorities called "First Things First." This week, we'll look at a topic where our knowledge usually ...

What a week it has been for our Refugee Ministry! We are so excited to meet the Ukranian Family on Saturday, August 13 at 5:30pm at BWI. If you can make it out to greet and welcome Yurii, Nataliia, Sasha, Ivan, and Stefan, please do! So many things have come together for this to happen. If you haven't been following Realm closely, the Lord has provided greatly in the form ...

I hope everyone is having a good week so far! Over the past two months we have been doing a sermon series on First Things and have covered topics ranging from "First Inquire" to "First Love" to "First Know." I hope you have enjoyed learning about these and other Biblical "Firsts" as much as I have. I was kind of hoping that with my turn coming up to deliver a message to yo...

Dear friends, Katie and I have recently moved to Winchester and we are looking forward to seeing everyone this Sunday! I'll be exhorting you from Romans 1:8, as we continue the series on "First Things." This week, we will explore the reasons Paul was thankful for the body of believers in Rome. One of those reasons was they had a reputation worth having, worth talking ab...

Hey, this week we're going to take on another hard-to-understand passage, Mark 13:3-13, which is part of Jesus' famous Olivet Discourse on the end times. As you know, we're in a series on Biblical Priorities called "First Things First," so how can a passage on the last days show us one of our first priorities? Well, this passage is about something (the proclamation of the...

Well, we're continuing our summer series on Biblical Priorities called "First Things First" and we've come to another well-known, but often misunderstood, passage. This week we'll be looking at Matthew 7:5 and "First Take." However, this passage begins with Jesus' famous words, "Judge not, that you be not judged." Now Christians have spent more time arguing over what thes...

Well, we're a month into our summer series on Biblical Priorities called "First Things First." So far, we've looked at First Inquire, First Recognize, First Listen, and First Understand. And today we've come to what may be the most well-known first command of them all First Seek which we find in Matthew 6:33, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and ...

As we prepare for worship this Sunday, I think that it's appropriate for us to take some time to honor our brother Jerry German. In the several conversations that I've had with Jill this week, she has gushed over Jerry's faith, faithfulness, care, and love for her over 56 years of marriage. What a wonderful testimony of God's goodness and grace in Jerry and to Jill! Please...

When was the last time that you were told that you were a good listener? When was the last time that you really set aside your own responses, solutions, or critiques in order to really listen and connect with whoever you were talking to? So many of the conversations that we see in the news between political groups and on social media don't involve listening to anyone else ...

Well, we've just started a new series on Biblical Priorities called "First Things First" where we'll spend the summer looking at twelve verses that tell us to do something "first." However, this week, we'll be looking at several verses that don't tell us to do something first, but rather to recognize what should come first in our lives. More specifically, we are to recogni...