This Sunday's Worship Materials can be found in the "Featured Sermon" below. We meet in person at Harper Park Middle School, and the service is also livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

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Heart Prep for Sunday, November 10th

Over the next few weeks, we'll be coming to the final chapters of the story of Jesus. And this week we have the well-known, but often misunderstood, episode of two doubting souls on the road to Emmaus. Overwhelmed by grief from the crucifixion, and not yet comprehending the resurrection, they are walking home in confusion. Then a man joins them, whom they don't recognize, ...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, November 3rd

Fall is upon us in earnest, and I would like to remind you that this Sunday is the end of Daylight Savings time. Thus, we will "fall back", and some of us will gain an hour of extra sleep. For everyone else, you'll have an extra hour of wakefulness before church starts. So hopefully, we'll see everyone at the Sunday School hour. One of the great aspects of preaching throu...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, August 13th

It was almost two months ago that the headlines in the news were full of the story of the OceanGate submersible known as the "Titan" which had lost contact with its surface vessel soon after it had descended into the deep waters above the ruins of the Titanic. Many of us, me included, followed the story, both fascinated and fearful as we contemplated the fate of the five p...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, July 28th

There is a famous story about the blind American poet and hymn writer Fanny J. Crosby, who once had someone say to her that it was "too bad that God had not given her the gift of sight." Her response surprised the person who said it when she replied, "If I had been given a choice at birth, I would have asked to be blind for when I get to Heaven, the first face I will see w...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, October 6th

It's a big week for us as we will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Potomac Hills this Sunday. I hope you've been seeing the histories of the church that have been sent out by email and posted each day on Realm. We also have several testimonials from some of our missionaries that you will be seeing soon as well.Since the single biggest thing we've done for the past 30 year...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, October 13th

We live in a society that seems to thrive on scandal. A person can't open their newsfeed or social media platforms these days without hearing the latest news about the arrest and trial of some celebrity or politician. Today, it might be Rap music moguls or former presidents, but in the past, we have watched the arrests of millionaires with their own ultra-private islands o...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, October 20th

We've spent the year "Walking with Jesus," a whole year of seeing and learning and listening to what Jesus said, what Jesus did, and how Jesus interacted with so many different people. Our year has almost come to an end. Six more weeks to cover the end of Jesus' life, His resurrection, ascension, and to try to understand what difference it all makes for our lives.This week...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, August 14th

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...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, October 27th

This week we're coming to the central focus of Christianity, and that is Christ crucified. This story, found inLuke 23:26-34, which we think we know so well, has been sanitized and somehow it's been made acceptable to hear even though it's actually a horrible story, full of pain and suffering. And this week we're going to look at the actual story, so you need to prepare y...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, July 28th

This past Friday I had the pleasure of making the 7 ½ hour drive down to Santee, South Carolina to take part in my stepmother's 80th birthday celebration. Then on Sunday, I had the same pleasure of making the return trip home. Please don't misunderstand me, the party itself was great and spending time with my dad and stepmother was wonderful. It was the dr...

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