SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, April 18, 2021

Dear Friends in Christ –

“Cress, you know the center of the universe can be very crowded,” my buddy and confessor told me. “What?” I looked up and saw him smiling in a slightly indulgent way. He knew that most of us are so centered on ourselves that its not beyond the realm of possibility that even the resurrected God of the cosmos sidles up beside us and we barely notice!

This is what happens as two forlorn disciples trudge home toward Emmaus to who knows what awaits them. Their world is crushed.

And yet we find that the risen Jesus does what he did – he surprises, he intrudes, teaches, admonishes, he loves them.

As each day seems to report another atrocity, we are called to gather, to position ourselves for grace and for duty in obedience and in hope.

Second Presbyterian is honored to host a service of ordination for Margaret Fleming on Sunday. The Charleston Atlantic Presbytery will conduct the service in our sanctuary on Sunday, April 18 at 4:00 p.m. and you are invited.

Margaret has been a member of Second Presbyterian Church since 2017. She resides in Mt. Pleasant with her husband Will, a fourth-year medical student at MUSC. She is a candidate for ordination to the office of Word and Sacrament to serve in the Ordered Ministry of Chaplaincy. Margaret is currently serving as a Chaplain Resident at Roper Hospital.