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Third Church Sermons

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Third Church RVA is a Presbyterian church pastored by Corey Widmer in Richmond, Virginia. We believe we are called together for the renewal of all things through Jesus Christ.
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Episodes

The Sending Savior

This Sunday we’re wrapping up our current series with our final “Out” focus.

Oct 24, 202235 min

Love Love

This Sunday we are shifting to our final focus, “Life for the World.” The church is such a peculiar institution in that we are always oriented toward the good of those who are not yet a part of our community. This Sunday, Elisabeth Hayes will be preaching on what it means to Love our Neighbors.

Oct 18, 202225 min

Stewards of Grace

This week we’ll be talking about how we use our gifts to serve and give to one another.

Oct 11, 202228 min

No Longer Strangers

This Sunday we’ll move into our third practice in this current sermon series, “Make time to gather with your community.”

Oct 03, 202227 min

The Solitary Place

This Sunday we’ll look at this pattern in Jesus’ life and what we can learn about our need for “the solitary place” in our own lives.

Sep 27, 202230 min

Let Us Draw Near

This Sunday we'll look at why corporate worship is so important and what it does for us to commit to this weekly practice.

Sep 20, 202236 min

Return to the Center

This Sunday Corey focuses on the simple call to return to Christ, the one around whom our life is centered.

Sep 12, 202232 min

Faith and Work Sunday 2022

This Sunday, we'll wrap up our summer series "Taste and See" with the culminating image of food in the Bible: the wedding feast of the Lamb in Revelation 19.

Sep 06, 202225 min

Taste and See: God's Joy

This Sunday, we'll wrap up our summer series "Taste and See" with the culminating image of food in the Bible: the wedding feast of the Lamb in Revelation 19.

Aug 29, 202234 min

Taste and See: God's Hospitality

This Sunday we’ll continue our Taste and See series by looking at a story of the early church from Acts 2. Many have commented how often Jesus is going to meals, eating meals, or coming from meals in the four Gospels. So it is no surprise that when we look at the early church in the book of Acts, they are doing a lot of eating! Very quickly, the meal became a focal practice in the early church for participating in Jesus’ work of salvation. We’ll talk this week about why the common meal was so im...

Aug 22, 202234 min

Taste and See: God's Restoration

This Sunday, we'll be looking at a fascinating meal that the resurrected Jesus shares with Peter and a few other disciples in John 21. This story has so much to say about shame and grace, about guilt and restoration.

Aug 16, 202238 min

Taste and See: God's Grace

This week Nan Clarke will be looking at the final Passover meal that Jesus’ disciples share with him, a meal that marks a dramatic and unexpected new direction in God’s story.

Aug 09, 202221 min

Taste and See: God's Invitation

This week, we will continue our Taste & See sermon series, in which we've been invited to deeply experience God's goodness. On Sunday we will hear from Drew Cleveland, who will preach on Jesus' invitation to all people to feast at his table.

Jul 31, 202228 min

Taste and See: God's Compassion

This week, Charles Teixeira will dive into a moment in Christ’s ministry that shows us the compassion of God which sees our every hunger and is eager to satisfy our needs for our sake and for his glory.

Jul 25, 202232 min

God’s Presence

This week we’ll explore the original Passover narrative and what it means for this God to be present among us today.

Jun 26, 202234 min

God’s Rest

This Sunday we’re starting a new summer sermon series called “Taste and See." We’ll be tracing the theme of food and feasting throughout the Bible. In each of biblical stores we’ll study, we’re looking at the different ways that God nourishes us. We’ll see that the meals God provides give us the opportunity to actually experience his goodness–to “taste and see” who He is, what kind of kingdom he is inaugurating here on earth, and to invite others to the table.

Jun 21, 202228 min

Hope for All Creation

For this Sunday, we’ll be wrapping up our series “Our Resurrection Hope,” with a final sermon that focuses on our hope for all creation.

Jun 13, 202235 min

Hope for Our Labor

This Sunday we’ll be looking at how the resurrection provides hope for our labor, basically all the work we do on the earth with our bodies.

Jun 06, 202232 min

Hope for Our Relationships

We continue to explore our resurrection hope this Sunday as learn about the hope of the resurrection for our relationships. We'll ask what hope the resurrection offers for our broken relationships. What does the resurrection mean for our fractured families and friendships? For our polarized society? For our divided church communities?

May 31, 202234 min

Hope for Our Bodies

This Sunday our topic is Hope for Our Bodies. We’ll explore the shocking nature of the ultimate Christian hope, which is embodied life in a transformed body on a resurrected earth. - NT Wright, Surprised by Hope - W Ross Hastings, The Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Adrian Warnock, Raised with Christ - J Richard Middleton, A New Heaven and a New Earth - Sam Alberry, What God Has to Say about Our Bodies - Esau McCaulley, “What Good Friday and Easter Mean for Black Americans Like Me,” April 15, 202...

May 24, 202231 min

Hope for Our Suffering

This Sunday we’re looking at how the resurrection of Jesus changes our experience of suffering.

May 17, 202236 min

Hope for Personal Change

This Sunday we'll continue our celebration of the resurrection by turning to the writings of Paul. We'll explore how the resurrection gives us hope for personal transformation.

May 10, 202239 min

Hope in God's Mercy

This Sunday, Nan Clarke will be preaching on a story about how the resurrection changed one particular person- the apostle Paul- and how the resurrection of Jesus is continuing to change people in the same way today.

May 02, 202225 min

Our Resurrection Hope

Starting this Sunday, we'll be going deep into "Our Resurrection Hope," discovering the impact of the resurrection for our lives, our struggles, our work, our relationships, and even the whole universe. Sermon sources 4/24/22 - NT Wright, Surprised by Hope - Timothy Keller, Hope in Times of Fear (the diagrams used come from chapter 2) - W Ross Hastings, The Resurrection of Jesus Christ - Adrian Warnock, Raised with Christ - Tish Harrison Warren, “Why it Matters That Jesus Really Did Rise from th...

Apr 25, 202235 min

Jesus Defeats Death

On this Easter Sunday, we look at the story of the women who come to the tomb and find it empty, with a messenger proclaiming that Jesus is risen. And because of that empty tomb, the lives of these women and men are changed forever, and the world will never be the same.

Apr 19, 202232 min
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