Third Church Sermons

During our study of Judges, we've continued to return to the question, “Who are we becoming?” This Sunday, Rick Hutton looks at the same question through Paul's exhortation in Galatians 5.

This week we will finish the story of Samson, the final judge of Israel.

Elisabeth Hayes continues our Judges series this week and begins the story of Samson: the strongest man in Israel, enslaved to his own appetites and desires.

This Sunday we'll consider the danger of false worship: not simply worshiping the wrong god, but worshiping the true God according to false ideas about who God is. And we'll pay particular attention to the person who bears the terrible cost of Jephthah's distorted faith: his unnamed daughter.

This week we continue in our series on Judges and spend time looking at Jotham’s parable, which offers a sober warning about power and compromise.

This Sunday we'll look at the story of Gideon, which lies at the heart of the book of Judges.

This Sunday, Brooke Wright walks us through the epic story of God's deliverance and redemption through Deborah.

This Sunday we come to one of the strangest stories in the book of Judges: the story of Ehud, the left-handed judge. There is intrigue, violence and even some potty humor!

This Sunday we'll begin a new sermon series on the book of Judges. Judges tells the story of what happens when God's people slowly forget who they are and become like the world around them. Yet through it all, one remarkable truth remains: though God's people repeatedly forget God, God never forgets his people.

This Sunday we'll be taking a fresh look at our church mission statement, Called Together for the Renewal of All Things, and asking how we can be a part of that right where we already are.

Elisabeth Hayes closes out our summer in Philippians this week and explores Paul's secret of contentment.

Dave Evans, Stanford Life Design Lab co-founder and co-author of "Designing Your Life" and "How to Live a Meaningful Life," joins Corey for a conversation about life, faith, and joy.

This week, we move toward Paul’s conclusion in one of the most practical sections of the book.

This week, Rick Hutton preaches on living as joyful citizens of heaven.

Tish Harrison Warren is a writer and an Anglican priest. She is the author of several books, including Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, which won Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year, and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep, which won Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year and the 2022 ECPA Christian Book of the Year. She formerly wrote a...

This Sunday Richard Haney joins us as we look at the next section in Philippians 3 and consider the apostle Paul’s exhortation “to press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

This Sunday, Brooke Wright continues our journey through Philippians as we explore what it means to find resilient joy, not in the life we wish we had, but in the life God has lovingly entrusted to us.

This Sunday, we'll continue our journey through Philippians as we explore what it means to find resilient joy, not in the life we wish we had, but in the life God has lovingly entrusted to us.

This Sunday, we will continue our journey through Philippians by reflecting on one of the most beautiful passages in Scripture: Philippians 2:5–11.

This Sunday Rick Hutton continues our Philippians series with Paul’s challenge to the church to find joy and strength in unity.

This Sunday Corey Wdimer continues to explore Paul's logic of joy and how he assimilates the experience of suffering through his theological vision of hope.

This Sunday, Ed Satterfield continues our series through the book of Philippians and guides us through Paul's purpose, hope, joy, and certainty, despite his uncertain circumstances.

This week, we'll see how Paul practices living into a larger story even in the midst of very painful circumstances.

This Sunday we're starting a new sermon series called Resilient Joy, based on the book of Philippians.

We’ll finish our series on the book of Acts this week with a wonderful story about three people whose lives are transformed by the gospel.