The weekly practice of confession–when, in the midst of our gathered worship, we admit both individually and together that we are sinners–is just about as counter-cultural as the Christian community gets.
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This week we’ll be looking at the Call to Worship, and how it reminds us week by week that God is at the beginning and center of everything.
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What we do in worship, week by week, shapes our identity as God’s people living by a distinctive set of practices and rhythms.
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At the close of his letter, Peter urges us to “stay alert” and to remain in a posture of humility, submitting to God, submitting to church leaders, submitting to one another. And in the end, Peter says, God will restore us and set everything right.
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This week we look at Peter's reminder that our trials are an opportunity for our faith to be strengthened, our intimacy with God deepened, and our hope to be made all the more strong.
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There is a Living Hope, which brings us together during desperate times, and compels us to engage in the heaviest, darkest, most difficult places.
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According to the apostle Peter, “mission” is not an episodic activity but an everyday identity.
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Peter's vision of Christian community calls us to re-order our lives away from individualism and toward shared life and practices.
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Being a people set apart for God's special purposes of love is a very delicate balance that is only possible through the grace of the gospel.
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Through the power of the Spirit, we can even have hope in the midst of the difficulties that seem to pervade the modern world
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What does it mean for us to be witnesses from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth today, in Richmond, VA?
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The astounding news of Easter is that God has thrown our death spiral into reverse through the resurrection of Jesus.
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At its core, Lust is treating another human being as though they were merely objects available to satisfy our physical passions. Our culture makes a virtue out of almost unfettered sexual desire, yet we are still loathe to talk about (or admit personally) the damage it does to both personal and community relationships.
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The deadly sin of anger is unusual in that it is the only one of the Seven that is also an attribute of God. But while God’s anger is always driven by love, our anger is nearly always driven by selfish desire. This Sunday, Corey Widmer continues the series Seven: Finding Freedom from the Darkness Within.
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The great medieval poet, Dante, observed, "Envy is the love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs." Paul's stirring words to the Philippians points us to the hope that in Christ we can learn to move from envy to contentment.
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Gluttony could be defined as an excessive appetite for food, drink or pleasure in order to keep God at bay. Therefore, the ancients condemned gluttony and included it on the list of Seven not because of what it does to the body, but what it does to the soul.
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When most of us think about the 7 Deadly Sins, sloth is the one that doesn't seem so bad. The reality is that sloth is much more than being lazy, and is in fact one of the most deadly.
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Guest preacher James K. A. Smith describes the way we acquire virtue by imitation and through the rhythms of worship--until being like Jesus becomes second nature.
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Rev. Dr. Jim Singleton preached on 2 Corinthians 4:1-7 during the Service of Installation for Corey Widmer as Third's Lead Pastor.
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It is hard to deny the power of money over our lives. But Jesus invites us to experience freedom from the control money exerts and be liberated from greed: to rightly order our relationship to our possessions. Then can we become like him, generously using what we have and are for the sake of love.
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