Second on the Mount Second Presbyterian Church

"Seeing Good" – Acts 3:12-21
Sermon by the Rev. Ben Brannan from Sunday, April 14, 2024.
Read the manuscript on our website: https://www.spres.org/seeing-good/ 

"It's Not About You, Thomas" – John 20:19-31
Sermon by Dr. Jacqueline E. Lapsley, President of Union Presbyterian Seminary, on the Sunday of the Kitty Susan Trent Symposium for Newly Ordained Ministers, April 7, 2024.

"Following: Loving, and so Following" – Mark 16:1-8Lenten Sermon Series Part VII
Sermon by Dr. George C. Anderson from Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024. "...so many cling to the resurrection hope in a desperate way, hoping for an out when death must come. Sadly, what often comes of this escapist hope is an escape from the moral demands of life. But a true resurrection hope is this: It is finding hope in God even after all other hopes fail you. . . . It is the hope that God will not let death and all it represents—injustice, toxicity, cruelty, despair—have the last word."
Read the manuscript on our website: https://www.spres.org/following-loving-and-so-following/

"Following: The Crowds" – Matthew 21:6-15, 27:15-23Lenten Sermon Series Part VI
Sermon by the Rev. Elizabeth N.H. Link from Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024.
Read the manuscript on our website: https://www.spres.org/following-the-crowds/

"Following: Following at One's Own Pace" – John 3:1-8, 7:50-51, 19:38-40Lenten Sermon Series Part V
Sermon by Dr. George C. Anderson from Sunday, March 17, 2024.
Read the manuscript on our website: https://www.spres.org/following-following-at-ones-own-pace/ 

"Following: Paul's Conversion and Call to Follow" – Acts 9:1-20Lenten Sermon Series Part IV 
Sermon by the Rev. Ben Brannan from Sunday, March 10, 2024. "When the voice of God calls out to us, when the voice of the Lord calls us to follow, we enter into something bigger and deeper than individual salvation and vocation. Conversion is never an end in and of itself. It is a beginning. We step into something new for ourselves and for the community to which we belong. A new reality. A new chapter in the life of the church, a new initiative or mission, and a new life in Christ for the individual. Following Jesus is both individual and communal, you can’t have one without the other. The individual receives the call; the community affirms the call. 
"And in the conversion and call and life of Paul we see a reminder that following Jesus involves a series of conversions, a series of journeys, encounters, pilgrimages, and turnings as we venture into unexplored territory."
Read the manuscript on our website: https://www.spres.org/following-pauls-conversion-and-call-to-follow/