The 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?
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In 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.
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The 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.
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As 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.
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The 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.
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One 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.
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The 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
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When God breaks into the world, not only is the world changed, but we are changed, too: our individual lives move from ordinary to extraordinary.
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On 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.
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On 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?
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What 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
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We 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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People give out of many different motivations: guilt, duty, obligation, fear, pride, etc. But for the Christian, the overwhelming motivation for all of our giving is gratitude. This week Corey Widmer walks us through the Apostle Paul's belief that the surest proof of a heart that has been changed by the good news of Jesus is a life of radical generosity.
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The mark of a Christian is being radically generous, and generosity should be the measure of our giving. But what is generosity? How do we measure it? Steve Hartman addresses these questions as we study of 1 Chronicles 29 in light of the wealth we have in Christ.
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Is poverty or prosperity a greater danger to our relationship with God? Can we be generous when we are concerned that we'll not have enough for ourselves? Join us this Sunday as Steve Hartman turns to 1 Timothy 6 for guidance on these questions.
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"But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand."
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"Who are my enemies, and how does God want me to respond to them?" These are the questions we'll explore as we look at how Paul ends his section on the power of the gospel to transform our relationships and challenges us to follow the counter-cultural way of Jesus: overcoming evil with good.
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Our scripture gives a recipe for the distinctive love that God enables within the family of God, in which no ingredient can be left out.
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What does transformation look like within the Family of God? We can easily miss the importance of the "obvious" answer: growing in love for one another.
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The contemporary Christian church has rightly put much emphasis on the importance of knowing God, but this has often been at the expense of knowing oneself. This week we'll explore what Paul means when he exhorts us to "think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you" (Rom 12:3).
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