Third Church Sermons

This phrase of the Apostles’ Creed is probably the scariest one of all. Judgment. We are offered both a sobering reminder that the way we live matters, as well as a great consolation, knowing that we wait for Jesus to come and set things right.

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.”

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.”

We don’t often think about the ascended Jesus at God’s right hand, but the apostle Paul seems to think that focusing on the ascended Jesus is the key to life. We’ll look at how this phrase in the creed, “he sits at the right hand of the Father,” helps us take on a new mindset, fixing our eyes on the ascended Jesus and the way our identity is bound up in him.

We’re starting a quarantine miniseries called LTGL, short for Little Things with Great Love. We’re looking at ways that 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.

This week in our study of the Apostles’ Creed, we come to the phrase “he ascended into heaven.” Esther Choi will lead us as we explore why believing in the ascension matters.

On Easter Sunday we come to what is perhaps the most important phrase in the entire creed, “on the third day, he rose again from the dead.” Join us as Corey Widmer, Fakhri Yacoub, and Erin Rose explore this phrase on Easter.

Good Friday: Descended Into Hell by Third Church, RVA

What do we learn about this person Jesus in this phrase from the creed this week? Simply put, he suffered. That word suffered does not just describe the end of his life, but the whole of his life. From start to finish, Jesus was a man who was “familiar with suffering,” familiar with our world and our reality. We’ll explore this together this weekend.

This week, we’ll be looking at the Virgin Birth and how it is not just some random miracle. It is the foundation of our belief that Jesus is both fully God and fully human, fully divine and fully enmeshed in the pains and sufferings of this world.