Sunday Bulletin - March 30

March 30, 2025 Jordyn Pritchard

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Mud in Your Eye

March 28, 2025 Second Pres

Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 30, 2025

Dear Friends in Jesus –

"One of the most barren and desolate places we can occupy as Christians is a place of smugness. Of rightness. Of certainty. The more convinced we are that we have full insight, comprehension, and knowledge, the less we will see and experience of God."
– Debie Thomas

Our scripture from the Gospel writer John is identified as ‘Jesus heals the man blind from birth’ but the narrative of the actual healing is a small portion of the periscope. The bulk of the text is questions from the temple authorities.

Who did this? How was it done? He’s a sinner – he healed on the Sabbath. Are you really the fellow who was blind?

The work of God is accomplished and we are shown the strength of the radical love unfettered. John wrote the entire Gospel that we would know that Jesus is God.

Thank you, John. Thank you, Jesus.

We baptize baby Evelyn this Sunday. We remember our own. See ya’!

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Gedney M. Howe III Funeral Service

March 28, 2025 Jordyn Pritchard

In Loving Memory of

Gedney Main Howe III

Nov. 16, 1946 - March 21, 2025

Funeral service for Gedney M. Howe III held Friday, March 28, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at Second Presbyterian Church, 342 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC. Livestream available on YouTube.

Sunday Bulletin - March 23

March 23, 2025 Jordyn Pritchard

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At the Water Cooler

March 21, 2025 Second Pres

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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 23, 2025

Dear Friends in Jesus –

Before everyone carried bottled water, one could go to the water cooler at school or the office for refreshment and for conversation. In ancient Samaria the water cooler was the well – not just for community, but for life.

Today we look at an encounter at the "water cooler" at Sychar – at the town well. This encounter is between the creator of the cosmos and a Samarian woman with whom he had an appointment.

This Sunday we welcome new members as we keep our appointment with the one who has come to us.

In anticipation –

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Sunday Bulletin - March 16

March 16, 2025 Jordyn Pritchard

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I Saw It

March 14, 2025 Second Pres

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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

March 9, 2025 Jordyn Pritchard

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Come and See

March 7, 2025 Second Pres

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

March 2, 2025 Jordyn Pritchard

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

February 28, 2025 Second Pres

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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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Easter Lilies

February 28, 2025 Guest User

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Sunday Bulletin - February 23

February 23, 2025 Jordyn Pritchard

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Don't Let Them

February 22, 2025 Second Pres

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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.