A Closer Look

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, April 28, 2024

Dear Friends in Jesus,

“The psalms, and especially Psalm 23, speak powerfully to and for God’s people in troubled times.

"The message from the everyday saints to “walk the walk” of daily faith in our time, the message is clear: Psalm 23 is essential. The putter is the essential club for golfers. The chef’s knife is the essential tool for cooks. And Psalm 23 is the essential text for the daily life of faith. Sure, you can golf without a putter, cook without a chef’s knife, and live the Christian life without Psalm 23. But who would want to?”

- Rolf Jacobson

This Sunday we take a closer look at the text everyone knows in language from 400 years ago, but that still serves us, feeds us, informs us, reminds us of the love that is ours.

 

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Sunday Bulletin - April 21

THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME

 “Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”


LET US KNOW YOU WORSHIPED WITH US TODAY - If you’re a visitor, online or in person, and would like more information please feel free to fill out a card or email Pastor Cress.

INFORMATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged?  We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.

Interested in joining Second? Find more about becoming a member here. Have a prayer request? Please let us know here.

 
 

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Why Me? With Me!

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, April 21, 2024

It is easy to blame God when things go wrong and to forget "thanks" when things go right.

Why do good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people? This Sunday, let's take a look at what the Bible says and "why me, or with me" is not new to our society.

– Ken Carrington

 

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Sunday Bulletin - April 14

THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME

 “Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”


LET US KNOW YOU WORSHIPED WITH US TODAY - If you’re a visitor, online or in person, and would like more information please feel free to fill out a card or email Pastor Cress.

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Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged?  We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.

Interested in joining Second? Find more about becoming a member here. Have a prayer request? Please let us know here.

 
 

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Peter’s Inside Word

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, April 14, 2024

Dear Friends in Jesus –

Our text is from the Gospel writer Luke describing the incipient church. Luke doesn’t list the doctrinal positions they held in common, nor does he describe them gathering in a room to argue the finer points of theology.

Instead, Luke writes that the testimony of the apostles to Jesus’ resurrection led to real, practical, life-changing action in the world. Perhaps this is what Easter is about, not theory but practice. Josh Scott in Christianity Today writes, “It’s the bursting into this world of a new creation that plays by different rules, where love calls us to work for the flourishing of every single person and of the whole creation.”

Should our response to Acts be to idealize the early church? It had its own set of issues and challenges. Instead, I think we are invited, even called, to join in and continue the work the early church began.

May we be an Eastered, Easter people.  

In great anticipation,

 

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VBS Registration

Vacation Bible School

VBS at Second Presbyterian Church of Charleston

June 24th-27th, 2024

9:00-12:30PM (Monday through Thursday)

For children currently in 3K-5th Grades. Must have turned 3 on or before August 31, 2023.

SIGN UP!

Sign up below to reserve your child’s spot. For more information or if you would like to volunteer, please contact Ken Carrington, ce@2ndpc.org.

 

Sunday Bulletin - April 7

THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME

 “Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”


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Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged?  We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.

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Bad Mouthed, Sold Short, Maligned

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, April 7, 2024

Dear Friends in Jesus –

I’m sending you a snapshot from four years ago during the early days of the pandemic:

“A Place Where Doubt is Welcome

I’ve been missing you. For some reason it feels particularly acute this April 15 evening around 5:00. The day was gray. Cooler than in a while. The buildings here on the Second Presbyterian campus were empty. The pivot to recovery unknown.

Our work singly and together continues. But words of encouragement can become annoying in their repetition.

I know this is not forever. (I say this and the next phrase to bubble up in my brain is ‘I know my redeemer liveth!’ Thank you, Jesus)

We will get through this best together. Yes - stronger, quicker, better together! (ugh)

Even as we deny ourselves and are denied the embrace we so long for -  for the right reasons, out of prudence and love – in moments of grief, confusion, accomplishment, perseverance – a hug would be nice.

Today we continue in the Gospel of John and discover much more about the disciple Thomas than we may have known.  The other disciples have retreated to a safe house. We will witness a cowardly crew come to believe. We witness hearts surrendered and a man’s doubt transformed.”

The landscape is different now – literally.

  • We celebrate the Wragg Square Park Renovation this Sunday.

  • The halls of the church resound with activity.

  • The sanctuary hosts weddings, concerts, lectures.

The center that holds – us (this congregation in its third century), our community, and the world (in our chaos and our malaise) – is Jesus.

Come in anticipation and expectation –  come worship!

 

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Sunday Bulletin - Easter Sunday

THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME

 “Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”


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Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged?  We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.

Interested in joining Second? Find more about becoming a member here. Have a prayer request? Please let us know here.

 
 

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Easter Sunday

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 31, 2024

Dear Friends in Jesus –

“Christianity is simply good news. It is the news that something has happened as a result of which the world is a different place."
- NT Wright

God became enfleshed.

Walked among us.

Taught, healed and loved extravagantly.

In the Gospels, the reports of his life, "Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life."

This is the God, Jesus, worthy of our worship!

SUNDAY’S COMIN’.

In anticipation –

 

Festival Service of the Resurrection with guest trumpeter Katie Banish, a senior trumpet major at the College of Charleston.


Please bring flower clippings for the flowering of the cross.


The adult choir and children’s choir have been hard at work preparing for a combined piece for Easter Sunday. Please bring children early on Sunday morning (9:45 a.m. in the sanctuary) to join the choir rehearsal prior to worship. Please contact Melody, our children’s choir director if you have any questions.

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Sunday Bulletin - Palm Sunday

THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME

 “Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”


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Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged?  We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.

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Palm Sunday

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 24, 2024

Dear Friends in Jesus –

“I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”

– Bob Seger, "Against the Wind"


Have you ever wished you didn’t know something? Maybe a friend had confided that they felt their marriage was over, or you saw someone cheating on an exam or on their expense account, or you noticed the signs of an addict in denial.
 
The texts for this Sunday can be Palm or Passion. Do we focus on Jesus entry into Jerusalem - palms waving, coats cast on the road, shouts of Hosanna – Save Us!? Can we celebrate knowing the end of the story? Yes! Because we know that crucifixion isn’t the end of the story. Jesus has already said he is the resurrection and the life. The end of our story is yet to be written, but we know it includes us and Jesus and life!
 
This Sunday the children will process. We will welcome Melody Butcher and Nate Grav into membership here at the Second Church. We will celebrate the fulfillment of ancient scripture and the promise of life in Jesus.
 
Let’s worship together this Sunday. Bring someone you love. Invite someone you’d rather not. Let’s share the joy that is ours –

 

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Sunday Bulletin - March 17

THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME

 “Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”


LET US KNOW YOU WORSHIPED WITH US TODAY - If you’re a visitor, online or in person, and would like more information please feel free to fill out a card or email Pastor Cress.

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Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged?  We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.

Interested in joining Second? Find more about becoming a member here. Have a prayer request? Please let us know here.

 
 

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Resolute

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 17, 2024

Dear Friends in Jesus –

We will continue our "Long Obedience in the Same Direction… in pursuit of a life worth living" series... but this Sunday we’ll see how Jesus, Godself, demonstrates resolve- unwavering obedience.

In the 9th chapter of Luke Jesus is resolute, encounters the inhospitable, accompanied by the immature and is undaunted in his trek to the act of our redeeming and the miracle of new life, not new living, but new life. Join us this Gospel Sunday!

In great anticipation,

 

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Sunday Bulletin - March 10

THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME

 “Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”


LET US KNOW YOU WORSHIPED WITH US TODAY - If you’re a visitor, online or in person, and would like more information please feel free to fill out a card or email Pastor Cress.

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Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged?  We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.

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