Third Church Sermons

This week we look further into what the book of James says about the Word of God, and how he challenges us to not just hear the word, but be transformed by it. What we hear must change what we do. Sermon by Corey Widmer.

We continue our series on James this Sunday with looking at the wisdom of the opening chapter. In this seemingly disjointed chapter, James gets to the heart of our life here: that our faith has something important to say about the many ways we suffer. Sermon by Corey Widmer.

This week we begin a new sermon series on the book of James, a series we’re calling ‘A Faith That Matters.” James believes that faith in the Lord Jesus is a faith that deeply matters for all of life, and is a faith that should be profoundly shaping the way believers live. We’ll explore this together this summer! Sermon by Corey Widmer.

Here is the link to the introduction video of James by the Bible Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn-hLHWwRYY

This week is Pentacost, and Erin Rose shares with us how this event that happened many hundreds of years ago still impacts us— all of us— everyday.

We continue this week in our three-week series on the Promise of the Spirit, looking to how the Holy Spirit can move us from stony, cold hearts, to hearts that desire and seek after God’s right and true things.

Credit to Tim Keller for the ball/can analogy, to Rankin Wilbourne for the idea of the Rudy and Sailboat illustrations, and to Tim Chester for the house renovation analogy. Sermon by Corey Widmer.

This week, as we think about the Holy Spirit at work in us and around us, we’ll see his work enables us to have life even when we’re in desert like places in life. Sermon by Rick Hutton.

This Sunday we are wrapping up our Questions of Jesus series with one last question of Jesus: “Do you love me?” This powerful question is from John 21:15-19, which tells the story of Jesus’ restoration of Peter. I leaned heavily on the work of David Benner’s book Surrender To Love and Dale Bruner’s Commentary on John for this week’s sermon.

Sermon by Derek Mondeau.

This week we look to another one of Jesus’s appearances to the disciples after his resurrection, and what it shows us about how he wants to encourage and restore us— even in the midst of great trial— so we may be sent out to share his grace and truth with the rest of the world. Sermon by Corey Widmer.

This week we welcome a guest preacher, Tharwat Whaba, to share with us from Isaiah 52.

Our story this week story invites us to encounter the living Jesus like the disciples did on the road to Emmaus, and asks us to open our eyes to him more and more. Sermon by Corey Widmer.