SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, May 11, 2025

How many times do we encounter something, a sound, a song or a memory, and you know immediately what that something is? This week we are celebrating many occasions in the life of our family – Cress and Rebecca are rejoicing with their daughter, Lily, as she graduates from the University of Miami; we continue rejoicing in the season of Easter resurrection; and we are celebrating the lives of mothers, those living and those now in eternal peace. In times of celebration and times of anguish, the embrace of one familiar or even the sound of their voice can express more than a thousand words.

As we prepare for worship this Sunday, the Lectionary has us revisiting Jesus addressing his detractors with these words, “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.” That’s a bold proclamation in God’s temple knowing many were seeking to kill him.

It is a proclamation I think most of us need reminding from time to time. Jesus knows us; he hears our voices, and we hear Jesus. The question we ask this week is what will we do in return? Ignore? Reject? Follow?

Hope to hear your voice this Sunday. Second Church embraces you!
– Steven