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Second City Sermons
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Welcome! Here you will find the weekly sermons of Second City Church in Harrisburg, PA. We hope these sermons will help you worship God and celebrate the good news of Jesus.
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Resurrection Life: Honored Relationships
2w ago00:35:37Tap to summarizeThe fifth commandment to honor your father and mother extends far beyond childhood obedience. The Hebrew word for honor means to give weight or significance to someone's presence, recognizing their God-given role. This foundational relationship teaches us how to engage with all authority figures throughout life. Honor isn't blind obedience but proper recognition and respect. Those in authority are equally called to honor those under their care through love, guidance, and protection. Jesus perfectly modeled this by honoring the Father even unto death, showing us the way to healthy relationships with authority.
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Resurrection Life: Keeping Time
3w ago00:37:50Tap to summarizeThe Fourth Commandment calls us to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy, which means more than just taking a day off—it requires setting aside time specifically for worship and rest. God designed us to work six days and rest one day, making it a holy holiday rather than a burden. This pattern reflects God's character as both Creator who rested after creation and Redeemer who freed us from slavery. For Christians, the Sabbath points to Christ's finished work on the cross, allowing us to enter into His rest. How we spend our time reveals what we truly value and love.
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Resurrection Life:Names
4w ago00:31:46Tap to summarizeThe third commandment goes far beyond avoiding profanity - it calls us to reverence God's holy name in all our speech and thoughts. God's name represents His very essence, making casual use of it deeply offensive to His holiness. While we often fail to honor His name as we should, the gospel offers hope: God glorifies His own name through Christ. Remarkably, through baptism, Christians are invited to bear the very name of the Trinity, becoming a holy people who reflect God's character in their daily lives
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Resurrection Life: Images
Apr 2800:36:20Tap to summarizeThe Second Commandment warns against creating any image of God that we worship or serve, whether physical or mental. While we may not carve wooden idols today, we often flatten God by making Him in our image, keeping Him static, oversimplifying His character, or treating Him like a cosmic vending machine. This flattening affects not only our relationship with God but also how we relate to others. God's jealousy is actually for our benefit - He wants us to know Him fully rather than worship a reduced version. The solution is diving deep into Scripture and looking to Jesus, who reveals God's true complexity and fullness.
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Resurrection Life: Worship
Apr 2100:31:15Tap to summarizeThe first commandment reveals that everyone worships something, and what we worship gives us our laws for living. While we may not bow to ancient gods like Aphrodite or Mars, we still serve modern versions of these same forces through money, pleasure, power, and approval. False gods operate through transactional relationships that ultimately dehumanize us. The God of the Bible is different because He establishes a personal, covenant relationship rather than demanding sacrifices. Through Christ's finished work on the cross, we can approach this commandment not as a burden but as an invitation into genuine relationship with the only God who won't disappoint.5
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Resurrection Life: Ten Words
Apr 1400:33:00Tap to summarizeMany resist the Ten Commandments because they associate them with restrictive rules, performative religion, or churches that lead with prohibitions rather than grace. Even positive approaches like Jesus' summary to love God and neighbor can become burdensome when we focus on what we must do to earn approval. The key lies in understanding the proper gospel order that God establishes: Done, Do, Don't!
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What Do You Make of the Resurrection
Apr 700:30:14Tap to summarizeThe resurrection of Jesus Christ presents humanity with an unavoidable choice: accept it as the greatest truth ever proclaimed or dismiss it as history's most elaborate deception. Charles Colson, one of the Watergate Seven, provides compelling evidence for its authenticity by comparing the disciples' forty-year testimony under persecution to the inability of twelve powerful men to maintain their Watergate lie for even three weeks. If the disciples were fabricating the resurrection, they would never have endured decades of beatings, torture, imprisonment, and death for what they knew to be false.
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The Descending God
Apr 700:20:55Tap to summarizeFrom the very beginning, sin has made the same deceptive promise that the serpent whispered to Eve: that we can be like God, determining our own truth and morality. This lie echoes through history, from ancient pharaohs claiming divinity to modern philosophies that elevate human reason above divine revelation. However, sin's actual result is the opposite of what it promises. Instead of making us godlike, it dehumanizes us and others.
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A Place in the Sun
Mar 3100:23:50Tap to summarizePalm Sunday reveals the tension between what we want from Jesus and what we actually need. When crowds waved palm branches and shouted 'Hosanna,' they were using symbols of political victory, hoping Jesus would establish their earthly kingdom. However, Jesus came not to give them the kingdom they wanted, but the kingdom they needed through His death and resurrection. We often approach Jesus similarly, wanting Him to endorse our plans rather than transform them. The beauty of Palm Sunday lies in Jesus accepting our imperfect, mixed worship while still going to the cross to provide what we truly need - redemption and eternal life in God's kingdom.
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Jesus, the Way of the Cross
Mar 2400:36:20Tap to summarizeMany people see Jesus as just a good teacher or want Him to validate their personal views, but this is like seeing trees walking around - partial and blurry. The Gospel of Mark shows us that spiritual sight often comes gradually, and true clarity requires understanding Jesus as the suffering Messiah. Seeing Jesus clearly means recognizing that the path to true life leads through death to self - taking up our cross and following Him. This involves costly forgiveness, dying to our selfish ambitions, and submitting to His way rather than trying to make Him support our agenda.
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