Third Church Sermons

A pastoral message with Q&A. Corey gives a pastoral message on our church’s calling to respond to racism and racial injustice and some first steps we’ll be taking to respond in action.

Resources on Race & Racism: https://www.thirdrva.org/resources-on-race-and-racism

This week, we study Psalm 121, and see that on this road of pain and trouble, our true help is in the Lord, maker of heaven and earth, the one who keeps us from all harm and promises to guard us in his love and care.

This Sunday we’re starting a new series called Songs for the Journey. Nestled in the back of the book of Psalms is a little collection called “The Songs of Ascent.” We begin this Sunday with Psalm 120- a psalm that reminds us that we must be fed up with the world around us before we are ready to walk the hard path of discipleship.

This week we study the final phrase of the Creed: “I believe in the Life Everlasting.”

As we move toward the end of the Creed, the perspective shifts to the future. The Creed begins with the very start of the history of the world, and now it moves toward history's conclusion. The world will end, the Creed affirms, not with destruction, not with an apocalypse, but with “the resurrection of the body.” What does that really mean?

This Sunday we’ll continue with our series on the Apostles’ Creed by looking at the phrase “The Communion of Saints.” Rick Hutton will be preaching on the church as a community of believers.

This week, Erin Rose will lead us as we examine the phrase from the Apostles’ Creed, “I believe in the holy catholic church.”

LTGL is a quarantine miniseries, short for Little Things with Great Love, where we’re looking at ways people in our community are seeking to be faithful to Jesus and his mission during this pandemic. We hear a lot about politicians and big name national leaders in the news, but the greatest heroes in this pandemic will most likely be people you’ve never heard of, neighbors and local leaders acting in small, courageous forms of sacrificial love and service. There are so many ways that God’s people are seeking to be faithful to Jesus in this pandemic, and we want to highlight a few of those stories. Little things with great love.

Thanks to Isaac Wardell for use of the song “Little Things With Great Love,” featuring Madison Cunningham, from the Porter’s Gate Album “Work Songs.”

In the final section of the Creed, we shift to the third Person of the Trinity: the Holy Spirit. Everything that we will look at from now on in the Creed is in some ways an outworking of the theology of the Spirit. The Spirit is the one who makes the Christian life possible, who makes the church possible, who makes a life of hope and courage possible.

LTGL is a quarantine miniseries, short for Little Things with Great Love, where we’re looking at ways people in our community are seeking to be faithful to Jesus and his mission during this pandemic. We hear a lot about politicians and big name national leaders in the news, but the greatest heroes in this pandemic will most likely be people you’ve never heard of, neighbors and local leaders acting in small, courageous forms of sacrificial love and service. There are so many ways that God’s people are seeking to be faithful to Jesus in this pandemic, and we want to highlight a few of those stories. Little things with great love.

Thanks to Isaac Wardell for use of the song “Little Things With Great Love,” featuring Madison Cunningham, from the Porter’s Gate Album “Work Songs.”