Mt. Hope

07/13/2024

It was a stunning prediction. It would be tough for anyone paying attention to deny the reality and power of God as a result. Hardened or ignorant hearts missed it. And many still do today. You might not have ever heard about it. But I’m confident that when you do, it’ll knock your socks off. Wanna hear the play-by-play?

Come join us tomorrow at 10 am, in person or online!
http://youtube.com/channel/UC6TnJNr7MImftnZkyNHst4A/live

And to read the rest of Chris's message:
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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07/06/2024

It’s curious timing that Pastor Will Cravens has been on the schedule to preach this Sunday for a couple of months now. He’s one of our favorites at Mt. Hope, having shepherded many in our congregation in years past. So, whenever he’s in town, I try to grab him to share the Word with us. His humorous and bold approach to the scriptures adds a layer of fun to counterbalance my often-heavy teachings. So… I’ll stay in bed the rest of this week, let Will get the Word put together, and maybe I’ll see you Sunday if the heavy antibiotics I started yesterday have done their work in time.

BUT… more curious timing: Will’s teaching for Sunday that he’s received from the Lord ties right into my probing question about our spiritual unwellness.
Join us tomorrow in person or online at 10am!

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06/24/2024

Catch up on yesterday's worship service and message!
https://www.youtube.com/live/JvW8vdTAD8k?si=RQZddeGrtEXXQW5Y

06/15/2024

Hey All…
This has been an important week for the Eads family. It involved a five-day trip to Kentucky, spending stupid amounts of money on furniture and other apartment essentials, and hours of foul moods, sliced fingers, and bruised extremities building those said pieces of cheaply manufactured furniture. Oddly, when paired with my study of Old Testament prophecy squeezed in-between lugging boxes up two flights of stairs, I feel like I have a fresh perspective on God and the end of the world....
Moving Rachel to her own apartment this week completed an important transition in our family. It is a bittersweet moment to arrive where both our daughters are now in their own homes, with their own careers, and—much to their annoyance—their own bills. Those of you who are parents know how meaningful these milestones are and how much joy you have for your kid’s success. You also know how hard it is to acknowledge that the nest is finally empty for good—where holiday visits will be brief and conversations less frequent. But your joy over their success is abundant.
But how does all this relate to the “End Times?”
See more at https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog )
We are into our third week of our summer teaching series called “God’s Game Plan—Beginning, Middle, End: A study in biblical prophecy.” All of this is to explore how God has revealed to us the entire picture, including the future ending. He wants us to be prepared, to have abundant hope, and to live our lives uniquely focused and devoted to Him as we wait joyfully for His return.

Join us on Sunday at 10am in person or online!
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06/08/2024

Thieves are bad, are they not? They steal from us things that we do not want to give up. They break into homes. They take what does not belong to them. They ruin people’s fortunes and sometimes even their lives. Jesus called the devil a thief who has come to steal, kill, and destroy all that God loves. But this might startle you—Jesus calls himself a thief too. I’m betting his thievery is something good. Surprised? Do you have your Ring doorbell camera working? I’ll tell you more... tomorrow!
Join us at 10 am in person or online!
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And read the rest of Chris's blog and announcements here
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

Hey Friends… Who wants some hope and good news? As the temperatures rise, pools open, schools wrap up, and a three-day holiday weekend marks the beginning of summer, our moods turn brighter. So,...

06/01/2024

You don’t typically think of headline news as very hopeful, do you? Violence and negativity sell ads, they say, so most media channels focus on the negative in our world—and there is plenty of it to go around. Then summertime comes along. It is one of our favorite times of year. Everything is in bloom, the temperature is warm, and sun tans are a given. Summers are happy. We have hope. But do you think we could find ourselves filled with hope this summer even while looking at the headlines? It may seem like an oxymoron, but all the bad news in the world may indeed hold some powerful echoes of hope for us. Don’t believe me? I’ll tell you more on Sunday.
Come visit or tune in at 10 am Sundays!
To read the rest of Chris's blog and announcements for our church, click here!
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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05/24/2024

Memorial Day was created in 1868 to honor the fallen U.S. soldiers who gave their lives to preserve our Union in the American Civil War. Slavery was also ended through the outcomes of that terrible conflict, unquestionably the most important step towards human rights and justice in our nation’s history. Over the years, Memorial Day evolved to honor all American women and men who have given the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of freedom around the world.
I emphasize the word “given” on purpose. None of us have earned our freedom. We have been given it by someone else. Their cost to give it to us was often incredibly extreme.
The same is true of everything we have in Jesus Christ. It has been given to us. For free. But at a monumental cost to the giver.

Here’s some hope and good news: “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness…” (2 Peter 1:3). There’s more: “In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope…” (1 Peter 1:3).
Who wants a living hope?
Visit us Sunday at 10 am in person or online!

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And read the rest of Chris's blog and announcements here:
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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05/17/2024

Let’s talk about road trips. And I mean the one that you and I are on together, not the insufferable I-70 slog through Nowhere, Ohio.
If you are going to go anywhere, you’d better pack properly. For today’s family highway trip, this means a lot of snacks and caffeine; it also means being sure we didn’t forget our toothbrush, clothes, shoes, and all the other essentials.
But when it comes to our lifelong road trip with Jesus, where are we going? What do we need to pack? And who are we traveling with?
Romans 8:28-30 reveals the destination. Everything that happens in our life, every single turn of events, every hardship and bump in the road—all of this leads to one specific outcome. It’s been God’s travel plan for each of us since well before we were born. Where are we going? To a life that is just like Jesus....Because of all manner of wounds and insecurities, most of us prefer to stay isolated and manage life on our own. But this isn’t how God truly wired us up. According to the scriptures, we were made to live in deep connectivity to one another—what the Bible calls “fellowship” (from the Greek word “koinonia”, which means to be deeply intertwined with one another). You can see the power of this life in places like Acts 2 and Acts 4.
This Sunday, Randy will unpack for us Romans chapters 14 and 15. We will discover the practical specifics of a Christ-centered life built on the Word, in biblical community, and in support of one another. Do some digging around those two chapters in advance.

Join us on Sunday at 10 am in person or online!
http://youtube.com/channel/UC6TnJNr7MImftnZkyNHst4A/live
To read the rest of Chris's blog https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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05/12/2024

Happy mother's and women's day to all those who have loved others well! Join us this morning at 10 am to receive the word that God has for you, specifically!

05/04/2024

"I’m wondering if you would trust me with a very delicate conversation. There is an aspect of our lives that many of us hold out as one of the last areas we are willing to hand over to Jesus. If we would follow Jesus into this corner of our thinking—which will undoubtedly force us to renew a few of our ideals—it is going to be a stretch. For some, the conversation could be somewhat uncomfortable. For others, it will be a massive breath of fresh air. For all of us, it is an incredibly necessary component to our discipleship as followers of Jesus Christ. You in? Do you trust me?

“What’s the sensitive topic,” you ask?

Well, you gotta come Sunday to find out. 10:00 a.m. in-person (best!) or online-livestream (if you’re out of town). I say it almost every week—and I mean it this one too—Hmmm…. Gonna be good! Can’t wait!!"
(to hear the rest of Chris' thoughts and announcements go to his blog at https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog )

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04/21/2024

"You were made for glory.

That’s not a word we typically use outside of religious circles, so I imagine most of us don’t have a clue what that really means or how it is useful to our lives.

“Glory” in its most simplified form means “the full identity of someone.” It speaks of the individual’s greatness, their fullness, their truest selves. When someone is seen for the entirety of who they are—no masks, no pretending, no façades—we see their glory.

You might have used the word this way: Your precious three-year-old son goes streaking through your living room in his birthday suit while you have a few sophisticated dinner guests over. Everyone nervously laughs and says, “well, there he goes in all his glory!” Nope…nothin’ hidden there! In our crude and vernacular sense, that’s “glory”.

When God unmasked Himself for all of humanity to see, it wasn’t a shameful revelation like your little kiddo offered you that fateful dinner-party evening. No, it was the stunning revelation of the wonder and fullness of His character, His identity, His nature. Nobody had ever seen God before. When He pulled the curtain back, we saw exactly who He is. And it was good."
To read the rest of Chris's blog, click below--and join us on Sunday at 10 am to hear more of what God is revealing to us!
http://youtube.com/channel/UC6TnJNr7MImftnZkyNHst4A/live
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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04/14/2024

If you missed the livestream today, you can watch it online. A POWERFUL message that challenges and inspires! Enjoy the worship, grow with the teaching, and join us in person anytime Sundays at 10 am!

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04/06/2024

Hey Friends…

Sometimes I worry about coming across like a “snake oil salesman”—you know, the guy who promises you the world, but what he’s really selling has absolutely nothing to it. Now… don’t mistake me here: I know that’s not what I do. I know I am promising you something that has the reality of God’s very existence behind it. But I worry that some might feel like that’s what I’m selling... I believe many people who faithfully attend church or listen to online sermons secretly wonder if all these bold claims of a “transformed life” are real or just some 1800’s-era worthless ooze from a common rattlesnake.

This Sunday, I’m going to make the sales pitch once again. “Uncharted Territory: Taking Life Where You’ve Never Been.” It sounds suspiciously broad like a Clark Stanley liniment advertisement. It gets worse: This week will be “Part 12—This Changes Everything.”
Really Chris? Everything?

Yep. Everything.
To read the rest of Chris's blog and exciting things happening at Mt Hope, click here! https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

Join us Sunday at 10am! http://youtube.com/channel/UC6TnJNr7MImftnZkyNHst4A/live

​Hey Friends… Sometimes I worry about coming across like a “ snake oil salesman ”—you know, the guy who promises you the world, but what he’s really selling has absolutely nothing to...

03/30/2024

"It really is the biggest story in all of human history. At no other time on this planet has natural law been so shaken. At no other time has death been so wildly reversed. At no other time has a spiritual transaction been so forcefully made. At no other time has the volatility and fickleness of human politics been so radically leveraged for an ultimate good.

On the surface, it makes for a great fantasy action movie. A beloved but controversial hero gets killed and all looks terribly dark. Three days later, his fortunes are supernaturally reversed, and he rises again. He and his victorious followers launch out to change the world, and everyone lives happily ever after.

We believers recognize this is more than an unrealistic and entertaining superhero action flick. Deep down we know there is truth to the story—that God is indeed capable of such miraculous things as resurrections. But since we routinely celebrate it each year with familiar songs, fancy clothes, beautiful Easter lilies, colorful eggs, and a happy bouncy bunny, has it become just too familiar to us?

I wonder how much it really moves us." (To read the rest of Chris's message https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog )

Join us tomorrow at 9 or 10:30 am (nursery through middle school meet during the 10:30 service) to celebrate the miracle!
Easter egg hunt to follow the 10:30 service!

Or join us online at
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03/23/2024

Hey Friends…
It is all about the stories. Four of them—exciting, compelling, transforming. You really don’t want to miss this Sunday! ...Tomorrow will be all about personal stories that confirm the grand truths of Romans. We will see how God put His promise into immediate real-life circumstances right here in Northern Virginia!
Come in person or worship with us online Sunday mornings at 10!
http://youtube.com/channel/UC6TnJNr7MImftnZkyNHst4A/live
For the rest of Chris's blog...https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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03/17/2024

Hey Friends…
My wife always has one answer to this question: “I don’t care,” or “it doesn’t matter,” or “whatever you want.” We’re thinking one of these phrases would be a great name for a new restaurant. It would certainly solve the important question of where to eat. But how about spiritually? What do you want to eat in your spiritual life? God provides an important menu choice in the Book of Romans that would be well worth considering… but lookout! It might surprise you.

To hear what Chris is going to share with us this morning, come to church at 10 or join us online here!

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03/09/2024

Have you ever hung on every word that someone was saying?
Every single word of the Bible is a treasure for me. Not everyone sees it this way, I know. Truth be told, even among faithful and passionate believers, the Bible’s complexity, its rich but sometimes confusing history, and its wildly spiritual language can make its relevance to our daily lives hard to recognize. But because each individual word in the Bible is the direct and purposeful revelation of God to us, I want to hang on every word.
How about you? (to read the rest of Chris's blog, go here https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog )

Join us at 10 am every Sunday!
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03/03/2024

Hey Friends…
There are two profound forces at work within us that are diametrically opposed to one another. When I tell you what they are, you will instantly understand. But at the same time, most Christians have little awareness of these two forces in a practical, “in the moment” kind of way. Worse yet, most do not know which are presently in control of our immediate behavior. I’ll tell you more in Deeper Thoughts (in Chris's blog https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog )

Join us at 10 am Sunday morning live, or online at http://youtube.com/channel/UC6TnJNr7MImftnZkyNHst4A/live

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02/18/2024

Hey Friends…

I wonder if you’re up for turning the page. Not just in our teaching—we’re moving this week from the “bad news” of Romans chapters 1 and 2 into the good news of chapters 3 and 4—but also in the specifics of your personal life. Do you want to turn the page into an entirely new way of living? It is absolutely possible, and the Word of the Lord revealed in Romans 3 will unlock it for us. But there is a reason very few of us have turned this page just yet. I’ll tell you more about it at 10 am today.

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02/02/2024

This Sunday—something special for middle schoolers and a bit of PG-13 content: We’ve been planning to pull aside our 6th-8th graders for some separate content and experiences, and this Sunday’s message suggests it would be a great week to try it out!
o In my teaching this Sunday, we will be studying Romans 1 which includes certain topics that if addressed fully and honestly, may be worth parents considering the readiness of their younger students to absorb.
o SO… at the regular message time, both Kids Connect and Middle School will be invited to join Chris Bowen and Jess Sauder downstairs for a moment of joint worship and then separate age-appropriate content experiences.
o Parents, if you feel your middle schooler would benefit from an adult discussion of the topics in Romans 1, they are certainly welcome to continue to attend with you.

Let’s meet this Sunday and continue our study of Romans— “Uncharted Territory: Taking Life Where You Have Never Been.” Spend some time in chapter one beforehand. We’re going to learn a lot about how we got in this mess in the first place!

To read the rest of Chris's blog and announcements:
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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Dear Friends… In the last week, two very beloved saints from Mt. Hope passed into their boundless eternal reward in God’s presence. Late last week, retired pastor and beloved Walter Agnor passed...

01/27/2024

The New Testament book called Romans is perhaps the most comprehensive and important explanation of Christianity in all the Bible.
It starts out with bad news. Very bad news. So bad, in fact, that if you don’t read it with the good news in mind, you’re likely to get up and walk out of the movie.
I’ve only walked out of two movies in my life. The reason: They were both painful beyond repair. They were so bad, so offensive, and I didn’t know where they were going. I stuck with them for a little while to see if the value would improve. But at about the 20-minute mark, with no clarity that anything was going to turn the least bit worthwhile, I bailed.
There are a lot of people doing this with Christianity.
Instinctively, people dislike the pain that our story begins with. If we are to be really honest, the first 20 minutes of our story doesn’t sound very hopeful. A hapless couple blows it for the entire human race. They lost the perfect garden that God had created for us all. Then, sin infects every one of us before we were born. It becomes a nasty “body of death” hanging around each of our necks. We get stuck in this up-and-down, success-and-failure cycle over and over again. We know God wants—even expects—better for us. But we end up battling immense amounts of guilt and shame as the sin just keeps rolling on and on and on and…
Ugh.
So, society bails. Who wouldn’t? Without the hope promised in Romans chapters 5 - 8, all the world sees in Christianity is a negative message of sin, guilt, shame, and damnation.
Well… here’s what I want for every one of you, and what I believe God wants for you: That you would be so well-versed in the Gospel narrative of victory that when we square up on the bad news, you are fully armed and ready to be the hero demolishing all the evil villains in your life.
We will lay it out one more time this Sunday, cycling carefully and in ever-widening fashion from that core promise of Romans 8:1—that “there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Spend some time digging around Romans 6 this week. Compare it to what we’ve read and studied thus far in Romans 7 and 8. Then, let’s hammer it. God’s promise in the Gospel is your identity, which to so many of us is an “Uncharted Territory: Taking Life Where You’ve Never Been.”
Join us at 10am Sunday morning!
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And to read the rest of Chris' blog, click here!
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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01/13/2024

So, let me tell you about Chris...
No, I don’t mean this Chris… though I hope by now you all know that I try to be an “open book” with you to share the raw and honest picture of who I really am. It’s one of the things about Mt. Hope that Sherri and I love so much: We are a family where we can each be real, be loved, and be transformed. But I digress. No, I want to tell you about another Chris you’re going to get to meet this Sunday....Last week we laid the foundation for the victory available to us from this terrible “Cycle We Cannot Seem to Break”—that up and down, good and bad, healthy and unhealthy life we all experience in our flesh. Then, this Sunday, Chris Campbell will launch us into the uncharted territory of resetting our minds to live by the Holy Spirit in such a way that it changes everything about how we live.
Join us at 10 am Sunday morning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpCc6b95qYc

To read the rest of Chris's blog:
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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01/06/2024

When was the last time you smacked your forehead and said, “Why did I just do that?” Or clenched your teeth with rising emotions you just couldn’t seem to control? Or worse…looked in the mirror through your tears and said with desperation, “what is wrong with me?” For some of us, it might have been a while; for others it was just earlier today. But we ALL have faced these questions of why we can’t seem to do or be what we wish we were. There is victory over this cycle we cannot seem to break, but it seems that very few have found this treasure promised in scripture.
This Sunday, we are going to embark on a 20-week journey as a church studying every inch of Paul’s letter to the Roman Christians. We are going to discover an incredible “Uncharted Territory: Taking Life Where You’ve Never Been.” We are going to discover the unbelievable promise of how we break free of the cycle we cannot presently seem to stop. We are going to see the path of faith to a day-by-day victory that Paul was discovering and presenting to us.

Join us at 10 am this Sunday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2L20Zs8TU

And to read the rest of Chris's blog:
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog

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12/23/2023

Christmas Eve is Sunday!! We have two opportunities for you to celebrate as a church family:
o Sunday morning, 10:00 a.m., we will hold our regular Sunday worship experience, but a tad abbreviated and a bit more laid back:

§ We’ll aim for just an hour or so; the kids will stay with us for the whole service.

§ Instead of a traditional teaching time, Pastor John Zoller, Chris Bowen, and myself will “co-teach” via sharing some fun ideas and challenging thoughts about the real power of Jesus in the manger!

o Sunday evening—5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. two identical Candlelight Christmas Eve Worship services in the historic and beautiful Mt. Hope sanctuary.

§ Nursery will be available for children 0-4 years old at the 5:00 service only. Please click here https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/events.html to RSVP your child so we’re sure to be properly staffed!

§ Oh…and yummy: Emily Firestone’s world-famous chocolate chip cookies and Chris Nicholson’s epic hot cider will be featured between services…stick around or come early! Yum!!

· Be sure to check out this week’s Mt. Hope Prayer Experience video… Gordon Albert shares this week’s testimony. He is passionate in prayer and God has moved miraculously many times with him. Click here to watch!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3WSLFpcH9g

Joining us live online for any service:
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12/16/2023

[Jesus] will trip you…on purpose. (What??)
That doesn’t sound very nice, now does it? Didn’t you play that game with each other when you were kids? You’d prank your brother or sister or friend on the playground… an unsuspected trip, or push, or shove. It was great fun, was it not, to pull the chair away from your buddy right before he sat down and cause him to stumble? Or am I the only childhood hoodlum reading this? As we mature, we learn that pranks intended to be funny can hurt people, so we stop the shenanigans and act more civilized. So, when it was said that Jesus would trip you on purpose…um… what???

Oh, you didn’t read that in the Gospels? Well…let me show you…
...“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth,” the adult Jesus would later say. “I did not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34).

Say what?? The angels had proclaimed the night of his birth, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men…” (Luke 2:14). So, which is it? Peace or a sword?

Or is it both?

This Sunday, we’re continuing our Advent teaching series called, “Would You Like a Savior?” We are looking at what a savior really is, and from what we need to be saved. Simeon prophesied that Jesus would cause people to trip and fall (read Luke 2:25-35). So did the prophet Isaiah (read Isaiah 8:13-17). The Apostle Peter echoed the sentiments after he had known and lived with Jesus for several years (read 1 Peter 2:4-8).

In the course of saving us, Jesus intends to trip us up. It is not to be a prank. It is not to hurt us. It is to ultimately bring us the peace and joy of his salvation. But it requires that we bump into—and sometimes trip over—some very important truths.

Shall we meet on Sunday and explore them together? Join us at 10 am, in person or online!
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12/10/2023

"We have all been hurt. At least once.
Some hurts are minor. Simple disappointments, subtle rejections, a biting word, mistakes and miscommunications. These get under our skin for sure. They burn a bit, but we typically get over them without much fanfare as time moves on. Occasionally—perhaps rarely—we will have the tough conversation with those who hurt us, and a new and healthier relationship can emerge.
But then there are hurts that mark us profoundly. Sometimes permanently. A harsh and stunning betrayal. A deep offense. Destructive and harmful behavior. These are the stories that are terribly difficult to name: Abandonment. Abuse. Adultery. Addiction. Assault. Alienation.
For most of us, at least one deep wound is in our story. We keep it very well hidden. But it is there, quietly lurking layers below the surface. We don’t think about it every day. But subtly, quietly, imperceptibly, it still has energy and drives much of our emotional life.
Would you like a Savior from this?" To read all of this powerful blog entry, click below:
https://www.mthopeloudoun.org/blog
Join us Sunday to delve deeper into the joy that comes from being saved in ways we never even thought of!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hzZIIS804

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