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, February 14th

As we prepare for Sunday's worship, let us be praying hard that the weather gets better. After 2 weeks of snow, I'm more than ready to be worshipping in-person again. As we get closer to Sunday, keep a watchful eye out for any updates from us about how we will be worshipping this Sunday. If we do meet in-person, I'm excited to have the children that normally head to Childr...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, February 7th

This week, we're starting a new sermon series on The Book of Joshua which I've entitled, "Living Out a Courageous Faith." In this time of such societal unrest, unease, and uncertainty, where Christians aren't sure what to say, how to act, or who to agree with, I can think of few times in my nearly thirty years of pastoral ministry that we've more needed to learn how to liv...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, January 31st

This week, we're finishing our January sermon series "With Confidence: Trusting God in Winter." We've already looked at having confidence in God, confidence in the Bible, confidence in Christ, confidence in the Gospel, and this week we're looking at having confidence in Hope. Now that one may sound a little funny to us because usually we use the word "Hope" with regard to...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, January 24th

This week, we're continuing our January sermon series "With Confidence: Trusting God in Winter." We've already looking at having confidence in God, confidence in the Bible, confidence in Christ, and this week we're looking at having confidence in the gospel. We'll be doing a deep dive into a few verses, Romans 1:16-17, which are the theme verses for the whole Book of Roma...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, January 17th

As we trundle into the 3rd week of 2021, there seems to be a lot of turmoil spilling over from 2020. Things feel chaotic and uncertain. We've still got a pandemic around with months still ahead of us. Our government is kind of dealing with a lot right now, and we've seen divisions within the American church like we haven't seen in a number of years. There's not much to be ...

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Pastoral Letter for January 10, 2021

PastoralLetterfor a Faithful Church January 10, 2021 Dear friends, Below are the remarks I made this morning regarding the danger of spiritual immaturity: I did want to address this week's events at the Capitol.I rarely speak publicly about such events, and when I do, I invariably upset someone. However, this one was unique in that it more publicly involved prof...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, January 10th, 2021

In the midst of this Covid surge, one of our members, Mrs. Jenny Nelson, tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. Jenny and her family were at church on Sunday. Jenny has already notified those folks she was in contact with. Most importantly, please be praying for the Nelson family, who currently have mild cold symptoms. Pray for a quick return to good health and that the ...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, January 3, 2021

Well, it's a new year. 2020 has come and gone, but in its wake, it has left behind a legacy of uncertainty and confusion, doubt for many, and despair for some. A global pandemic, economic turmoil, racial tensions, political polarization, election drama (and don't forget, the movie "Pacific Rim" was set in 2020). We've never seen a year like 2020 before (unless you were ali...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, December 27th

I hope your holidays haven't been too crazy so far. I hope you've been able to slow down a little bit this Advent. I hope you've been able to take advantage of our Advent devotional (Tom Gardner did such a good job putting it together). And I hope you learned something new and different from our Advent series, "Unexpected Joy: A Christmas with Jonah." This Thursd...

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Heart Prep for Sunday, December 20th

We are almost to Christmas, and we were this close to having a White Christmas! Oh well. I hope this finds you warm, safe, and digging out from the snow. This week, we will be finishing our advent series in Jonah, tackling all of chapter 4. Hopefully, Jonah's reaction to Nineveh's salvation and God's teaching of him through a plant will teach us to live according to the Go...

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