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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreGluttony 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.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreGuest 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.
Read MoreRev. Dr. Jim Singleton preached on 2 Corinthians 4:1-7 during the Service of Installation for Corey Widmer as Third's Lead Pastor.
Read MoreIt 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.
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 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 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.
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