Third Church Sermons

This week, Derek leads us through a study of Psalm 131, a song that reminds us who we are (and who we are not) even as it reminds us who God is.

A study of Psalm 130, “the Mercy Song,” which reveals the disciple’s inward pilgrim journey from despair to a call to wait and hope.

This week Esther Choi will lead us through a study of Psalm 128, a song of blessing.

Psalm 126 boldly asserts that one of the key marks of the pilgrim is joy. Joy is not happiness, but a deep steadiness of soul that remains firm amidst the danger and struggle of the journey.

This week, we look at Psalm 125, a beautiful meditation on the city of Jerusalem, and on Christian security. In the midst of great uncertainty, the Lord surrounds his people! Sermon Sources: - A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, Chapter 7, by Eugene Peterson - “A Place Where You Belong,” Sermon by Mika Edmondson, preached at Christ Presbyterian Church Nashville, 7.5.2020 (credit to Mika for th...

As we look at Psalm 124 this week, we see a rescuer and savior from destruction.

This week, we study Psalm 123 and see ourselves as servants of a merciful Master who helps us journey in a life full of contempt.

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 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...

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...

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...

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 lo...

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