Worship Times

Join us this Sunday morning for Worship at 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Nursery is available.  8:30 a.m. worship service resumes on Sunday January 8th.  

All Church Retreat is March 9-11.  Sign up HERE.

Children and Worship ages 4 – 2nd grade meets during both morning worship services. 

Young Disciples, for children 3rd – 5th grades, meets in room 20 during the 8:30 a.m. worship service every other week in the winter semester beginning January 8.

Duing the school year, join us Wednesday night for supper at 5:45pm, followed by Third's After Supper Club (TASC) at 6:30pm, a multi-generational mid-week offering of educational, musical and spiritual development. Children's programming, Middle School youth group, High School bible study, Choir and more are available. TASC resumes Wednesday, January 11.

Contact Us

111 West 13th Street
Holland, MI 49423

(616) 392-1459 phone
(616) 392-8412 fax
(616) 393-5574 careline
(800) 937-5774 careline 

trc@macatawa.org email

“Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness…
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
And his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him, bless his name.”  (Psalm 100)

 

Worship at Third Reformed Church

Third Reformed Church has discerned God’s call to worship with a classic Reformed liturgy.  Often lectionary-based, our worship combines the great hymns of the faith with newer songs of the global Christian Church.  We seek worship that first exalts God and then also reminds us of our identity, confesses our sin, celebrates creation, and heartens other believers. We cultivate worship that is biblically rooted, theologically informed, socially engaged, and pastorally connected to our lives and to the world.  

Embracing both ancient and contemporary, our worship recognizes that a post-modern world requires worship that continues to appeal to the mind while also satisfying the heart and the soul.  We seek to make worship inviting and accessible to all ages, abilities and backgrounds, incorporating the arts to transcend spoken language.  We gather around the communion table on a monthly basis, participate in creative liturgies, and give dramatic readings often led by students and children. During the high and holy seasons of the Christian year, we intentionally develop themes for worship and spiritual disciplines that can be practiced and lived in daily life. 

During the school year, in addition to our morning worship services, we have evening vespers at 6 PM, a service that often focuses on the community or on world mission.  This is usually led by members of the congregation as they share their stories of being in mission for Christ in the community or around the world.

 

Worship Themes for Epiphany

February, 2012 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Sunday, February 5  "The Danger of Prayer"  Isaiah 40:21-31; Mark 1:29-39

Celebration of the Lord's Supper

Sunday, February 12 "The Inherent Risks of Healing" 2 Kings 5:1-14; Mark 1:40-45

Sunday, February 19 Transfiguration Sunday:  "Living on the Other Side of the Mountain," Mark 9:2-9; 2 Corinthians 4:1-6

Worship Theme for Lent  "The Inward Way"

Throughout these Lenten days and nights we turn to walk the inward way....


The congregation and visitors will be supplied with a daily reading booklet produced by the pastors and seminary students of the church that will prepare us and help us to respond to Sunday worship.  Sign up in the Gathering Space or call the church office.  Questions, call Pastor Kent.

First Sunday of Lent, February 26 "Jesus with the Wild Beasts"  Genesis 9:8-17; Mark 1:9-15

The Theme of Temptation

Second Sunday of Lent, March 4  "Who is God?"  Genesis 17:1-7; 15-16; Mark 8:31-38  Celebration of the Lord's Supper

The Theme of the Suffering Cross