Third Church Sermons

We begin a new series this week on the book of Jonah. Jonah may be one of the most familiar books, but perhaps one of the least understood. Over the course of this series we’ll go deep on a powerful demonstration of one of the most important themes of the Christian faith: the disruptive grace of God.

Sources:

NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible

Jack Sasson, Jonah (The Anchor Bible series)

Timothy Keller, The Prodigal Prophet

Kevin Germer, “Jonah 1:1-10,” Sermon at Christ Pres RVA, 8/4/13

Joshua Ryan Butler, The Pursuing God

Tim Keller Sermon Archive, Logos Bible Software

For Labor Day Sunday each year we ask a lay leader to preach about the intersection of faith and work. This year, we’ll be hearing from Rev. Gina Maio on what Hebrews 11 has to say about our labors.

In the final week of our James series, we’ll look at the end of the book of James. Corey will share with us about how the key sign of a transformational faith prayer. Prayer that is constant, consistent, and wholly dependent on the Father.

Sermon sources:

James for You, by Sam Allberry

The Praying Life, by Paul Miller

Prayer, by Tim Keller

“Proceed to Failure” by Scott Scruggs, sermon preached at Menlo Church 7.16.19

This week, Ed Satterfield will lead us through chapter 5 of James, exploring a key ingredient that helps us to be patient amidst trials, suffering and injustices— the imminent return of the Lord Jesus.

We continue to move through the book of James this week as we look at the end of chapter 4 and into chapter 5. Corey Widmer shares with us about the particular dangers of wealth to us as Christians— the dangers of presumption, hoarding and injustice.

This week, Corey Widmer shares on James 4, and demonstrates what James sees as the core problem in the lives of his friends: the problem of having “divided hearts,” compromising their affection and fidelity to God, the one true source of life and love.

Corey Widmer shares this week from James 3:13-18 asking questions like: How do we know who to follow? Who should we listen to? How do we know when our lives on track (or off)? James speaks to all this in this passage and we’ll look at how we too can become people of true wisdom.

We begin exploring Luke chapter 3 this week by looking at what this verses 1-12 means for our language, and what our language shows about the shape of our hearts and what we believe. Sermon by Derek Mondeau.

"I was grateful to the work of John Stot and JA Moyter, as well as sermons by Matt Chandler, Tim Keller and Tony Evans for shaping my thoughts about the text this week." - Derek.

This week, we look at James 2 and what our faith means for our works and deeds. Sermon by Rick Hutton

David Bailey, executive director of Arrabon, is with us this week to share on James 2:1-13, on building a counter-cultural community.