Our February Term series, "Desires: Who and What Do You Love?" continues with Lisa Ould helping us look at how there are liturgies--patterns of relating--in our interpersonal affairs with each other, which shape how we experience love, friendship and fellowship in the church.
Read MorePride is often considered the root of all other sins. Pride is difficult to eradicate because it is encouraged in the culture in which we live, and because it is with us all the time, especially among those of us who are "good."
Read MoreThe sermon series Seven | Finding Freedom from the Evil Within begins this week with an examination of pride, often considered the root of all other sins. Perhaps the oldest form of evil within us.
Read MoreYouth Sunday. Though we are sinners in desperate need of God's redemptive grace through Jesus, and while God's grace is freely given to us by no work of our own, we do have a role to play in what we become.
Read MoreFebruary Term 2015, Week 2. Richard Haney helps us look at the pervasive influence of technology in our lives, and how our device-oriented rituals are part of a larger liturgy of consumption.
Read MoreLead Pastor Corey Widmer kicks off the February Term, introducing us to the idea that liturgies--whether sacred or secular--help shape our identities by shaping our loves.
Read MoreIn the final week of our series on the Book of Acts, we see Jesus continuing to push his church out into new territories and to engage new people--crossing racial and cultural boundaries to proclaim and to do works of healing and justice in his name.
Read MoreThe early church faced internal conflict that threatened to destroy it and impede the spread of the gospel; yet, they overcame their differences. How might we learn from its example and live more fully as the new Community?
Read MoreIn the early Church we get a glimpse of the Kingdom of God coming on earth as it is in heaven, and that the purpose of the church is to provide a new identity for all believers.
Read MoreThe gift of the Holy Spirit was the two-fold fulfillment of promises God made to his people centuries before: to restore His presence to the people he made and loved, and to restore and unite the nations of the earth. That gift continues to empower us today.
Read MoreAs He did with his first disciples, Jesus invites us into His story just as we are, but then calls to be changed, and sent into His world.
Read MoreThe fact that Jesus came at just the right time changes who we were, and has huge implications for how we can live now as God's children.
Read MoreOne of the most enduring qualities of the human experience is loneliness. But Christmas is the good news that God has come home to his world, and because he has come home we are no longer alone.
Read MoreThe Father hasn’t just “sent” Jesus as a "messenger"; in Jesus, He has come Himself. Listen to Steve Hartman's last sermon as Third's Senior Pastor
Read MoreVideo of the Congregation, Choir, Soloists and String Quartet offering selections of Handel's "Messiah" in worship.
Read MoreWhen God breaks into the world, not only is the world changed, but we are changed, too: our individual lives move from ordinary to extraordinary.
Read MoreOn the Second Sunday of Advent, we continue to focus on the second coming of Jesus Christ and the difference that can make to the way we live now.
Read MoreOn the First Sunday of Advent we join the historical Church in focusing on the second coming of Jesus Christ. Will it happen? What difference does it make to the way we live now?
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be "a voice" for the Lord--especially one crying in the cultural wilderness of a post-Christian culture? Fred Wantaate preaches on John 1: 19-23
Read MoreWe come together every week, sing together, get challenged by great messages, and spend time talking to one another, but is this what it means to be the church? This week, Rick Hutton will guide us in thinking about the image of the Body of Christ and how being the Body is the expression of what God desires us to be.
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