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...

We start a new summer sermon series this week regarding "First Things." To name a few, we will have sermons on pray first, seek first, know first, understand first, recognize first, proclaim first, and who's on first. Well, maybe not that last one. Putting "first things first" is about setting priorities. Placing spiritual priorities ahead of the things of this world re...

We have come at long last to the end of Deuteronomy. As with last week, we have 4 chapters to cover this Sunday, Deuteronomy 31-34. In these chapters, we get the plan to transition leadership to Joshua in chapter 31, the Song of Moses in chapter 32, blessings on each of the tribes in chapter 33, and Moses's death in chapter 34. I encourage you to spend time reading it sinc...

This Sunday, we're going to step out of Deuteronomy and all the warnings against breaking the covenant, and look at the covenant itself. Rev. Porter Harlow of Christ Presbyterian Church in Burke (Porter preached at Potomac Hills last summer) will be preaching on "Demonstrated Faithfulness" in Genesis 22 and how it points us to the true gospel in Matthew 28. And then we wil...