Third Church Sermons

The second week in our sermon series, exploring the God’s call to steward what he has created. Sermon by Corey Widmer. Sermon sources: - Genesis (Interpretation), by Walter Brueggmann - Genesis, by Bruce Waltke - Old Testament Ethics and the People of God, by Chris Wright - Stewards in the Kingdom, by R Scott Rodin - Practicing the King’s Economy, by Michael Rhodes and Bobby Holt - Serve God, Save...

We begin a new sermon series this week exploring how Gospel stewardship encompasses everything— not just our finances. Sermon by Corey Widmer. Sermon Sources: - Genesis (Interpretation), by Walter Brueggmann - Genesis, by Bruce Waltke - Old Testament Ethics and the People of God, by Chris Wright - Stewards in the Kingdom, by R Scott Rodin - Practicing the King’s Economy, by Michael Rhodes and Bobb...

For the final sermon in our Jonah series, Derek Mondeau will help us uncover our identity as missionary people. We Jesus’ “sent people,” called to bear witness to Jesus and his Kingdom through our speech, our words, our community, and our way of life.

In our second to last sermon of the series, we look at why Jonah is so angry that the Ninevites repent. How could he be angry about God’s grace? We’ll explore together. Sermon by Corey Widmer. Sermon sources: - Daniel Timmer, “A Gracious and Compassionate God” - Jack Sasson, “Jonah” (Anchor Bible Commentary) - Timothy Keller, “The Prodigal Prophet” - Paul David Tripp, “Jonah: You Can’t Outrun Grac...

This week, we begin to look at chapter 3 of Jonah as Jonah makes his entrance into the city of Ninevah. It is there that we see that God continues to extend opportunities for his people to repent, change course, and change their lives. Sermon by Erin Rose.

Corey leads us this Sunday in our third week of our Jonah series, looking at the beginning of Chapter 2 and Jonah’s prayer of thanksgiving. This prayer is a act of pure gratitude, and in his gratefulness for God’s deliverance from death, Jonah offers us a beautiful articulation of the true meaning of biblical grace. Sources: - Daniel Timmer, “A Gracious and Compassionate God” - Jack Sasson, “Jonah...

For our second week in our Jonah series, Corey Widmer shares on Jonah 1:4-17. We’ll explore how this passage challenges what our faith is for– not just for private and personal salvation, but for the common good of all people. Sources: - Daniel Timmer, A Gracious and Compassionate God - Hugh Martin, “Jonah” - Jack Sasson, Jonah (Anchor Bible Commentary) - Timothy Keller, The Prodigal Prophet * Kel...

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...

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...

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.

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 Bib...

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...

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.