Second City @ Menlo Park Presbyterian Church

This week, Matt Bond started a series where he talked about how life is filled with us moving from one mile marker to another and in so we constantly find ourselves… In Transit. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Jacque continues the series “From The Margins” about social justice and how we need to align our lives to look like Christ. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Matt bond kicks of the sermon series titled, “From The Margins” speaking on the marginalized people in this world. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

This week Matt Bond shared on the trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and how they transform our lives. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Jacque Becwar continues this 4 week series on the Trinity with God the Holy Spirit. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.  

Julie Gerughty continues this 4 week series on the Trinity with God the Son. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Matt Bond starts off this 4 week series on the Trinity with God the Father. He talks about God the father and how we can transfer our views of our earthly father onto God the Father. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

This week Scotty Scruggs brought the message to Second City posing the questions, “Do You Trust In God?”. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

This week Zack and Laura shared on their relationship and shared their insight and wisdom. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Guest speaker Charley Scandlyn spoke this week in Second City on how to have ownership with your faith. Charley was a former high school paster here at MPPC and it was great to hear his wisdom and insight. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Matt concludes our series on the Gospel of Mark by looking at Jesus’ pain of heartbreak in the Garden of Gethsemane and the joy of his redeeming love through the cross and his resurrection. Great love carries with it great risk of heartbreak, but the joy of great love always outweighs the risk of heartbreak. […]

Juice Gerughty continues our series by teaching on the “Calling of Levi” from Mark 2. You can listen to this week’s message HERE.

Jacque Becwar continues our series, The Gospel of Mark, by taking us through Mark 1:16-20 and what Jesus means when he says, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.”As it turns out, Jesus makes this statement to his followers because he believes that we can actually be like him. You can listen […]

We start our new series on the Gospel of Mark by beginning at the beginning. We see that God fulfills all his promises and his peoples hopes and expectations in and through the person of Jesus – and Jesus fulfills our expectations for transformation. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Matt starts off our new series entitled The Book. Over the next few weeks, we’ll take a look that the most influential, significant book in the history of humankind: The Bible. We’ll look at what it is and what it isn’t, how it works, and how to use it. You can listen to this weeks […]

Matt teaches from Luke 15 as our Second City community welcomes in our new 9th graders. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

After 5 incredible years of faithful service in the High School Ministry, Jason Nikolao is stepping off staff to join his family on their next great adventure. In this weeks Second City, Jason shares his wisdom for one final time…until he comes back to visit us! You can listen to Jasons message HERE.

Juice Gerughty recaps our recent trip to Young Life’s Woodleaf summer camp. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Matt teaches on how God desires to recreate us through times of recreation and play. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

Just home from our Costa Rica Missions Trip, Matt teaches on how we can have real joy, God’s kind of joy, in our lives even regardless of our circumstances. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

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.

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 land that God had prepared for them. You can listen to this weeks teaching HERE.

CJ Clark continues our LAUNCH series. You can listen to this week’s teaching HERE.

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. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

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 Testament prophecies, the revolution of the Macabees in 164 BC, and disfavor with the Romans. Amidst this backdrop, Jesus enters riding a symbol […]

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 can listen to this weeks message HERE.

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 that reveal how to be best prepared for college, and frames what the college journey can look like for a christian student. You can listen […]

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 can listen to this weeks message HERE.

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 message HERE.

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 relates to The Me I Want to Be (9th Grade Small Group curriculum). You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

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), 10th graders: XEE, 11th graders: Soul Renovation, 12th graders: The Reason for God (Senior Book Study). You can […]

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.

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, and mercy to new and unfamiliar places. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

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 of Gethsemane, where Jesus wrestled and submitted to His Father’s will and how we can do the same. You can listen to this […]

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.

Jim Candy teaches on relationships and Godly sexuality. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

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 to this weeks message HERE.

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 listen to this weeks message HERE.

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 called to live out the Gospel today. You can listen to this weeks message HERE.

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 mission and mission is worship! You can listen to this week’s message HERE.

Matt begins our new series entitled, On a Mission. Teaching from Genesis 12 (Abrams calling and sending by God to be a blessing to all nations), we look at how God calls people in order to send them On a Mission. You can listen to this week’s message HERE.

As the school year kicks off, Matt starts our series entitled, We Go Together. In Acts 2, we find a picture of what the Family of God looks like as all the believers worship, pray, and care for one another. Listen to this week’s message HERE

For her last Second City as an intern, Abby McHugh teaches from the book of Joshua and God’s instruction to remember His faithfulness to us and His plan for our lives. By looking back, we’re able to better understand where God is taking us in the future. Listen to this week’s message HERE

Matt teaches from Hebrews 12 which indicates that the challenging and loving role of being a dad and we have a heavenly Father who desires to imprint His character on us. Listen to this week’s message HERE

Matt teaches from Luke 15 and the story of the Prodigal Son in which Jesus illustrates how it’s never too late to return to the Father. Listen to this week’s message HERE

Matt shares  from Isaiah 61 and Luke 4, he talks about how he’s never been more concerned or more hopeful for a generation of high school students. Listen to this week’s message HERE

Matt teaches from Luke 15:8-10 in which Jesus illustrates how God will stop at nothing to find you and I when we’re lost. Listen to this week’s message HERE

Abby McHugh teaches from Luke 15, focusing on the parable Jesus tells about a shepherd scrambling across the countryside searching for a lost sheep. In it, we see a picture of God’s heart for finding the lost. Listen to this week’s message HERE

On this Mothers Day Matt teaches from Deuteronomy 5 and how the command to honor our moms links the first 4 commandments pertaining to our relationship with God and the last 4 commandments pertaining to our relationships with other people. Listen to this week’s message HERE

If you’ve ever found yourself in a difficult life situation and asked, God, why are you doing this to me? then you may connect with this message taught from the creation story we find in Genesis. Listen to this week’s message HERE