Third Church Sermons

This Sunday we’re starting a new summer sermon series called “Taste and See." We’ll be tracing the theme of food and feasting throughout the Bible. In each of biblical stores we’ll study, we’re looking at the different ways that God nourishes us. We’ll see that the meals God provides give us the opportunity to actually experience his goodness–to “taste and see” who He is, what kind of kingdom he is inaugurating here on earth, and to invite others to the table.

For this Sunday, we’ll be wrapping up our series “Our Resurrection Hope,” with a final sermon that focuses on our hope for all creation.

This Sunday we’ll be looking at how the resurrection provides hope for our labor, basically all the work we do on the earth with our bodies.

We continue to explore our resurrection hope this Sunday as learn about the hope of the resurrection for our relationships. We'll ask what hope the resurrection offers for our broken relationships. What does the resurrection mean for our fractured families and friendships? For our polarized society? For our divided church communities?

Audio Appendix: Hope For Our Bodies Q&A by Third Church, RVA

This Sunday our topic is Hope for Our Bodies. We’ll explore the shocking nature of the ultimate Christian hope, which is embodied life in a transformed body on a resurrected earth.

- NT Wright, Surprised by Hope

- W Ross Hastings, The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

- Adrian Warnock, Raised with Christ

- J Richard Middleton, A New Heaven and a New Earth

- Sam Alberry, What God Has to Say about Our Bodies

- Esau McCaulley, “What Good Friday and Easter Mean for Black Americans Like Me,” April 15, 2022 New York Times

This Sunday we’re looking at how the resurrection of Jesus changes our experience of suffering.

This Sunday we'll continue our celebration of the resurrection by turning to the writings of Paul. We'll explore how the resurrection gives us hope for personal transformation.

This Sunday, Nan Clarke will be preaching on a story about how the resurrection changed one particular person- the apostle Paul- and how the resurrection of Jesus is continuing to change people in the same way today.

Starting this Sunday, we'll be going deep into "Our Resurrection Hope," discovering the impact of the resurrection for our lives, our struggles, our work, our relationships, and even the whole universe.

Sermon sources 4/24/22

- NT Wright, Surprised by Hope

- Timothy Keller, Hope in Times of Fear (the diagrams used come from chapter 2)

- W Ross Hastings, The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

- Adrian Warnock, Raised with Christ

- Tish Harrison Warren, “Why it Matters That Jesus Really Did Rise from the Dead,” NYTimes, April 17 2022