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.

Heart Prep for Palm Sunday, April 5th

This week we’re back in The Gospel of Mark.  As it’s Palm Sunday, we’re skipping over to the text on The Triumphal Entry, Mark 11:1-11.  Every year on Palm Sunday, children enter our worship service with palm branches, delightfully waving to the congregation in celebration of Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem.  Obviously, we won’t be able to do that in this year of social distancing.  But I trust we will again.

Many know the story of the Lord Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey to the adulation of the crowds.  But not everyone knows that long before Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey — hundreds of years before He was even born — another man rode a donkey into Jerusalem.  And in that first triumphal entry, we uncover precious truth about the second.  I’m looking forward to showing you just how that helpful that is for us to really understand this text. 

And once again, I do mean “showing you” since I’ll be coming to you via video again this Sunday.  On Saturday we’ll post all the links and everything you need to worship on Sunday at our website – www.potomachills.org – just click on the “latest sermon” link for this Sunday.  We keep tweaking how we do this in an effort to make it a little bit better each week.

However, perhaps like me, you are discovering that online church is a little bit sterile. Fellowship like this causes headaches and eye strain.  It is literally disembodied.   The oppose of incarnational.  Touch screens are clever, but they don’t enable you to, well, touch.  Physicality is a creation blessing.  There’s a price to be paid for being inside a safe, sterile screen.  It makes me long for the day when we can gather together again.  When it’s safe to shake hands and hug.  When we listen, pray, and sing together.  I can’t wait.

Don’t get me wrong, I love that we can worship together, even while apart.  But I’ll love it even more when we can be face-to-face and not just screen-to-screen.  Let’s pray for that day to come quickly.  I may not see you, but you’ll see me on Sunday.  Dr. Dave