Ascension

The sermon and children’s sermon are posted below. Scroll to the bottom for sermon notes.

Pastor Cress delivers a message for the week of May 24th

Stay home, stay healthy and let’s flatten the curve! Sermon videos will be posted online for 10:30 a.m. on Sundays as we worship together from home.

Children's Sermon with Sarah Craven


SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, May 24, 2020

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Dear Friends in Christ – 

Say, let’s check out the Crafts Fair in the park. Then let’s drop into the Second’s Please Tea Room for some of Sue’s Okra Soup, or Cathy’s Tomato Pie and the Pastor’s Sour Cream Apple Pie (now the Pastor’s daughter’s pie) and listen to a little Lime and the Coconuts' toe-tappin’, make-you-smile-and-want-to-singalong acoustic music. Oh wait –

This year is different: necessity, caution, care – COVID has altered the landscape. Our community and our country are emerging from a mandate – some more quickly than others – that has required us to stay home, keep distance, wear protective clothing and wait – wait until data shows that we are on the downside of the pandemic, that we are not a virulent threat to each other. 

It’s no coincidence that our text this Sunday finds Jesus doing what he’s said all along he would do; he’s heading out, or up, or away. The descriptions vary, but the enfleshed, albeit resurrected, Jesus is leaving for a better view. No longer bound, as was his choice, by gravity and by spatial constraints, Jesus God is headed back to the celestial realm and leaves the disciples with tasks and promises. 

This weekend inaugurates summer. We set aside a day to remember and honor those fallen in service to the nation. We also remember and celebrate the tens of thousands across the nation and around the world who have succumbed to a deadly plague, who have died to this world, but whom we know to live because of the Christ’s love.       

Ascension Day is sometimes passed over in the Liturgical Year. It occurs on a Thursday and poses a challenge to comprehend. But this Sunday I want to tell you, the few who may not have heard, of my friend Lester who now resides in a different zip code. And we’ll think about Jesus’s order to the disciples to return to Jerusalem, to the upper room and… wait.  

Tune in. Invite a friend to share some coffee and scripture. Let’s worship together.

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Interested in becoming a member of Second Presbyterian? Email Cress for more information.


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Pentecost Offering May 31st
Nurturing the faith of those who are the church to come

A gift to the Pentecost Offering helps the church encourage, develop, and support its young people, and also address the needs of at-risk children. 40% of the Pentecost offering can be retained by our congregation to make an impact in the lives of young people within our own community. The remaining 60% is used to support children-at-risk, youth, and young adults through ministries of the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

Find out more about this special offering here.


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