Sunday Bulletin - March 16

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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I Saw It

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Christian church we attend started many years ago, against all odds. A small group of individuals had lost their leader and continued on without him. It would have been easier to walk away, though they did not. They pushed on. Why? Join us on Sunday as we discuss the many reasons why.

– Ken Carrington

 

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Sunday Bulletin - March 9

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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Come and See

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 9, 2025

Dear Friends in Jesus –

The Gospel of John presents a different "call narrative" of the disciples. No beachside summoning like we saw in Luke for men to drop everything and follow this stranger.

In John 1, we are presented with John the Baptizer heralding Jesus walking past. To his followers, John says, “Behold – look there – the lamb of God. Then again, the next day, pointing out Jesus, identifying Jesus, Look the lamb of God – two of John’s disciples leave him and follow Jesus.”

Once Jesus saw the two disciples of John who were now following him, he turned and asked them a question. He did not ask who they were or for their credentials, instead he asked, “what are you looking for?”

They didn't know, or couldn’t articulate, what they were after. Do we ever know the detail and depth of what we seek? What we yearn for?

Their actual response is awkward: “Where are you staying?” Seems to imply "we don’t know what we want, but we want to know more." Their question kept the door open and led to Jesus' invitation: “Come and see.”

Jesus calls us and invites us to come together and discover the life for which we are created.

Join me and others for this first Sunday of Lent. Let’s experience the lengthening of days and the deepening of our faith together.

In anticipation –

 
 

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Sunday Bulletin - March 2

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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Not Giving Up, Giving In, Giving Out, but Giving Over

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 2, 2025

Dear Friends in Jesus –

Surrender is one of the most misused, misunderstood words in our language. It is often used to connote a ‘giving up’ or a ‘giving in’ to a stronger power to which one has lost the fight.

Or it may be when one’s resources or will have been exhausted and one is ‘given out’ and no longer able to resist.

But this Sunday I want to offer that surrender can actually be a prescient, powerful and strategic move when one ‘gives over’ the unwinnable to the one who is inexhaustible, unshakeable, and hopelessly in love with you.

This Sunday I invite you to join me in giving over the rancorous, chaotic, demeaning, the losing attempt at life alone to Jesus who was, is and will be our companion and guide to a life of purpose and joyful abundance. No mystery. Just a recognition of what is ours to do and what is his (whose yoke is easy :) 

Come to worship and have the burden lifted! Got some friends or loved ones in need of grace or looking for a lift? Why keep it to yourself? See you Sunday!

In great anticipation –

 
 

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Sunday Bulletin - February 23

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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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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Don't Let Them

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, February 23, 2025

Dear Friends in Jesus –

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” - Nelson Mandela

This Sunday we engage the text from Matthew 19 where Jesus makes clear that it is faith as of a child by which one may enter the realm of God. And so we celebrate the Second Presbyterian Kindergarten, it’s vibrancy and its poignancy and its importance. No there isn’t a catechism that has to be passed, but there is Chapel on Wednesdays where the Lord’s Prayer is said, the Word of God told in winsome ways and songs of praise sung. The love of God and the value of each child to God and to us is upheld. Is there anything more important?

Come this Sunday. Invite your friends as gospel is sung and the Word is shared and we are strengthened for these days to be the conduits of Jesus’ love.

 
 

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Vacation Bible School

VBS at Second Presbyterian Church of Charleston

June 16th-19th, 2025

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

For children currently in 3K-5th Grades. Must have turned 3 on or before August 31st, 2024.

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Sunday Bulletin - February 16

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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Come, Sail Away

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, February 16, 2025

St. Augustine once penned, “God does not expect us to submit our faith to [God] without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.” I am not sure many of us ponder if faith in God and God’s purpose for our lives is genuinely a necessity. We tend to think in more concrete terms like food, water, resources, and emotional/physical support. But faith – that tends to be a luxury afforded to moments of idle wonderments and foxhole prayers.
 
This Sunday we have an opportunity to open our sacred texts and hear what the Hebrews writer declares about faith. Eugene Peterson’s The Message translation of the text reads: “The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living.” I am hopeful that as we read, study, and pray together in preparation for worship, God will deepen that faith depicted in Hebrews to those early Christians who in their own right had much to fear.
 
There is much to fear – no doubt – but come sail away with me this Sunday with the assurances of God’s promises at our back!
 
Onward and upward,
Steve

 

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Second Edition Book Club

The Second Edition Book Club meets monthly on a Sunday afternoon, generally the second Sunday. Contact Fred Schuh, Carol Howe, or Peggy Pinckney for more information.

MAY SELECTION:

Discussion on Sunday, May 18th, 2 p.m. at Peggy’s home

Flicker In the Dark by Stacy Willingham

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Sunday Bulletin - February 9

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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