Second City @ Menlo Park Presbyterian Church
Second City is a gathering of high school students and leaders from different backgrounds, schools, & neighborhoods on the San Francisco peninsula united in trying to be authentic and live our lives in light of a great, big God that loves us without measure or conditions. We don’t pretend to have all the answers. We’re simply a community seeking to learn more together about the big questions of life and faith in God. We do this every Sunday morning through worship and music, hearing each others’ stories, learning from the life of Jesus that we read in the Bible, and sharing our lives. Our hope is that we would leave each Sunday morning somehow different than when we arrived because of the way we hear from and experience God. This Podcast is an archive of our teaching at Second City.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Episodes
- 58
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2012
Three Questions
Guest teaching Jim Candy poses 3 very compelling questions that we all have to answer in our lives at some point. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.
LAUNCH, Week 8
Matt teaches about the transition of graduation that many of our students are facing by sharing from the history of the nation of Israel’s long walk through the desert and preparation to enter the la…
LAUNCH, Week 7
CJ Clark continues our LAUNCH series. You can listen to this week’s teaching HERE.
LAUNCH, Week 6
Matt continues our LAUNCH series by asking the question: How Do We Get Good at Life? We explore Jesus’ answer to this question in Matthew 7 – We get good at life by building our house on the Rock.
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Palm Sunday
Matt walks us through all of what was going on the Sunday that Jesus arrived in Jerusalem. The military/messianic expectations Jesus walked into came from a variety of sources including misread Old T…
LAUNCH, Week 5
Charley Scandlyn, former MPPC youth pastor, shares with us about all that’s going on with the Senior Book Study this spring. The 12th graders are going through Tim Keller’s The Reason for God. You ca…
Derek Melleby
Derek Melleby, from the Center for Parent and Youth Understanding, came to talk to parents, students, and staff about having a God centered transition into college. He shares insightful questions tha…
LAUNCH, Week 4
Stephanie Green and Julie Gerughty continue our LAUNCH series and share about how God is using the Soul Renovation (www.soulrenovation.com) curriculum in the lives of our 11th grade students. You …
LAUNCH, Week 3
Laura Turner and Julie Gerughty continue our LAUNCH series and share about how God is using the XEE (www.xee.info) curriculum in the lives of our 10th grade students. You can listen to this weeks me…
LAUNCH, Week #2
Matt continues our LAUNCH series by welcoming Freshman Small Group Leader, DJ Chung. DJ shares about his experience of wrestling with how to base his identity on the unchanging God and how it relate…
LAUNCH, Week #1
Matt begins our 10-week LAUNCH series for Second City and Small Groups. Each grade is going through its own curriculum over the next 10 weeks – 9th graders: The Me I Want to Be (High School Version),…
Mexicali Recap and Student Stories
This week, we get to hear from some of our students reflect on the incredible experience of serving God and others on our missions trip to Mexicali, Mexico.
You can listen to this weeks message HERE.
Crossing Borders, Week 1
Matt begins a new series entitled Crossing Borders. As we lead up to our trip to Mexicali, Mexico, we take a look at how Jesus regularly crossed borders in order to bring God’s grace, love, peace, an…
Wrestle and Submit
John Cromie, Stanford grad, rocket scientist at Lockheed, and High School Ministry volunteer leader shares thoughts from his recent trip to Israel. He focuses his teaching on his visit to the Garden …
Image and Identity
Jon Bingham and C.J. Clark teach on how we can find our true image and identity in Christ.
You can listen to this weeks message HERE.
Godly Sexuality
Jim Candy teaches on relationships and Godly sexuality.
You can listen to this weeks message HERE.
The Christmas Story, Week 1
Matt Bond teaches on how God became flesh and walked into our neighborhood. He came as the seemingly harmless child, who proved to put the most powerful men in the world up in arms.
You can listen t…
Thanksgiving and Purpose
Jen Hayden and Juice Gerughty team teach on Thanksgiving weekend on how the things we have to be the most thankful for are things that never change – namely, our identity as children of God.
You can …
On A Mission, Week 3
C.J. Clark continues our series entitled, On A Mission. Teaching from Luke 8, C.J. makes the connection between how Jesus lives out the Gospel in the healing of a woman and the way in which we’re ca…
On A Mission, Week 2
Continuing our series, On a Mission, Matt teaches from Isaiah 1 and 58, looking at how worship and mission are linked. In fact, according to Isaiah (and other Biblical descriptions) worship is missio…