Each winter, we take a month to get on the same page as a church. We combine our adult Sunday discipleship classes and study an issue together that has bearing on how we live our lives as Christ-followers--no matter what age or stage of life we find ourselves in. This year, we will gather to look at the theme: The Art of Neighboring. Our goal is to help our church explore what it really means to love our neighbor-- including how to love our neighbors!-- as we launch our Parish Life ministry.
Feb 28, 2018•54 min
What are the marks of a person’s identity that has been shaped by the cross? That’s the question we’re exploring this week. The human ego is constantly trying to establish a sense of self-worth and significance through all sorts of ways, but we are called to entrust our sense of self to the Lord, the one we truly belong to. Sermon by Corey Widmer. Much of the content of this sermon comes from Tim Keller’s book “The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness,” also with help from Rankin Wilbourne’s sermon at ...
Feb 25, 2018•38 min
In the second chapter of his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul continues to jab at the Corinthians misguided notions of wisdom and power. When it comes to money, power, beauty, leadership, status, security, or a myriad of other issues, are you still living by what the world considers smart, admirable and worthwhile? Paul is calling you back to the foolishness of the upside down wisdom of the cross. Become a fool so you can again be wise. Sermon by Corey Widmer
Feb 18, 2018•34 min
Each winter, we take a month to get on the same page as a church. We combine our adult Sunday discipleship classes and study an issue together that has bearing on how we live our lives as Christ-followers--no matter what age or stage of life we find ourselves in. This year, we will gather to look at the theme: The Art of Neighboring. Our goal is to help our church explore what it really means to love our neighbor-- including how to love our neighbors!-- as we launch our Parish Life ministry.
Feb 14, 2018•59 min
If the message of the cross is true, it means the secret to the universe is something we rarely if ever want to believe: that power is meted out through weakness. If the message of the cross is true, it means we who believe it are called to live a cruciform, a cross-shaped, life. This Lent, let’s pray that the Lord renews our vision of the cross and how we can live according to it. Sermon by Corey Widmer. Many thanks for Rankin Wilbourne and Pacific Crossroads Church for permission to use “The C...
Feb 11, 2018•38 min
Each winter, we take a month to get on the same page as a church. We combine our adult Sunday discipleship classes and study an issue together that has bearing on how we live our lives as Christ-followers--no matter what age or stage of life we find ourselves in. This year, we will gather to look at the theme: The Art of Neighboring. Our goal is to help our church explore what it really means to love our neighbor-- including how to love our neighbors!-- as we launch our Parish Life ministry.
Feb 08, 2018•56 min
Youth Sunday 02-2018
Feb 04, 2018•22 min
In the third episode of our podcast series “Audio Appendix,” Corey Widmer talks with Third member Mark Sprinkle about the age-old faith and science debate, how we can become better readers and interpreters of Scripture, and why the integration of faith and science is important to the mission of the gospel. For further reading: The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, by John H. Walton The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate, by Joh...
Feb 03, 2018•31 min
n our last message of this four week series, we are looking at the Beginning of Work. As we’ve been saying throughout this month, we were all made for four key relationships: our relationship with God, self, others and creation. In this final message, we will learn about how God has called us to be cultivators and co-creators with him in our relationship to the created order. Sermon by David Bailey.
Jan 28, 2018•28 min
This week, we'll look at the beginning of our relationships with others, and how the essence of our personhood, as designed by our Creator, is inherently communal. Sermon by Corey Widmer. Duke Kwan’s sermon at Grace Meridian DC Church on 2/22/15 was a resource in writing this sermon, as well as the chapter 14 “The Dance of God” in Tim Keller’s book The Reason for God."
Jan 21, 2018•36 min
In the second week of our vision series, we're looking at the beginning of human identity in Genesis 1, and how we were created as image bearers of God and for the flourishing of his created order. Sermon by Derek Mondeau.
Jan 14, 2018•34 min
This week, we're starting a new vision sermon series, looking at the first two chapters of Genesis - the ultimate beginning of all things. To start, we'll explore the beginning of all creation and how God deemed it all good. Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Jan 07, 2018•30 min
Join us this week as Richard Haney shares with us from the last phrase of the John 1:14 verse: "...full of grace and truth."
Dec 31, 2017•29 min
Join us on Christmas Eve. It will be a special time together as we celebrate the newborn King, and continue to explore the depth, meaning, and mystery of the incarnation. Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Dec 25, 2017•23 min
Join us on the morning of Christmas Eve for a special service at 10:00 a.m.. Rick Hutton will share a brief homily, and we'll listen to a special musical presentation of Vivaldi's Gloria.
Dec 24, 2017•17 min
In this second episode of our podcast series “Audio Appendix,” Corey Widmer and Becca Payne discuss five of their favorite books from 2017. The books they discuss are How to Think by Alan Jacobs (Currency) The Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren (IVP) The Myth of Equality by Ken Wytsma (IVP) The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch (IVP) God’s Very Good Idea by Trillia Newbell (The Good Book Company)
Dec 21, 2017•36 min
The inescapable and elusive glory of God is finally accessible through the Incarnation, the Word became flesh. This week, we’ll explore what the glory of God, made manifest in the person of Jesus, means for our lives, our relationships, and our work in the world. Sermon by Corey Widmer
Dec 17, 2017•36 min
God wants to dwell with you. With us. That is one of the great themes of the Scriptures, and all of it is centered in and made possible through the Incarnation of Jesus. This week, we’ll explore this great theme and its implications for our lives, our relationships, and our work in the world. Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Dec 10, 2017•33 min
This week we start a new sermon series on Dwell, as we observe Advent and prepare for Christmas. Over the next weeks, we'll have an extended meditation on one verse: John 1:14. This week we begin by looking at the phrase, "the word became flesh." Sermon by Corey Widmer
Dec 03, 2017•30 min
This Sunday we’ll conclude our series “GIVE: The Surprising Grace of Giving”, by returning to 2 Corinthians 8:1-5. Our theme will be “The Grace of Giving our Lives,” taken from Paul’s lovely phrase, “They gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us.” (2 Corinthians 8:5). Sermon by Fakhri Yacoub.
Nov 26, 2017•32 min
This week, we're looking at how Jesus challenges our definitions of family and who is in our families, and also how he calls us to be a part of his "family business." Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Nov 21, 2017•30 min
In the first of this new series “Audio Appendix," Corey has a conversation with Third member Justin Earley on his own struggle with time, vocation, habit and the Christian life.
Nov 15, 2017•31 min
In this series on giving, we’ve spent the first two Sundays talking about giving our money. But this Sunday we’ll turn to consider what it means to give an even more precious resource: our time. Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Nov 12, 2017•34 min
This week, as we prepare for Faith Commitment Sunday, we'll explore how anything we financially give as Christians is a spiritual investment in a future “harvest of righteousness.” Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Nov 05, 2017•27 min
Join us as we begin a new sermon series this week -- Give: The Grace of Giving. Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Oct 29, 2017•30 min
This fall, we have surveyed several New Testament metaphors for the church, and this week, we'll gather for the last one as we explore the metaphor of the church as the bride. Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Oct 22, 2017•35 min
This fall, we have surveyed several New Testament metaphors for the church, and this week, we’ll see explore the church as the body of Christ. Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Oct 15, 2017•38 min
This fall, we have surveyed several New Testament metaphors for the church, and this week, we’ll see explore the church as sheep. Sermon by Charles Teixeria.
Oct 08, 2017•28 min
This week we explore another metaphor of the church-- the field--and how, as the church, our purpose is to receive life and nourishment from Jesus Himself and bear fruit in order to bring life to many. Sermon by Ed Satterfield.
Oct 01, 2017•29 min
How could we as Third Church be salt and light in our neighborhoods, our city and our world? We’ll explore that together this week. Sermon by Corey Widmer.
Sep 24, 2017•31 min
