Vineyard Columbus Sermons

The sermon opens with a cultural analysis about how Americans view marriage and divorce – Pastor Rich says we live in an uncommitted age. He introduces a concept called "expressive individualism". The sermon focuses on Ruth, but highlights 2 other...

In the new sermon series, Advent: The Women In Jesus' Past, we're going to look at the lives of four of the women in the genealogy of Jesus: Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. In this week's sermon, we found that Jesus is the Savior of Gentiles, not...

All of us have less than ideal families. Because of this Family Mess in one way or another can influence our very lives. In this sermon Pastor Rich shares uses the story of Joseph to share w with us principles that we must keep in mind when we...

In Genesis 42-44 we read a story of a family whose lives are in suspended animation. They are stuck and frozen in time because of an incident that happened more than twenty-years before. Jacob is stuck mourning for a son that supposedly he has lost...

In this week's message, Insoo talks about how to partner with God to raise your children. Based on the story of Joseph in Genesis 37, he talks about how even our best efforts as a parent aren't good enough, and how sometimes God is up to something...

In Genesis 30 and 31, we find the family mess that existed in the relationship between Jacob and Laban. Similar to modern-day examples of family conflict, Jacob and his father-in-law Laban were engaged in a business conflict that exposed deeply rooted...

In the message idolatry was described as "anything you can't live with without", or "something you'd do anything for". Jacob sought his father's blessings and romantic love with Rachael – at any cost; Leah aimed to...

In Genesis 27 we find a story of family mess, of deception and favoritism as Jacob tricks his father Isaac into giving him his blessing instead of giving it to his older brother and firstborn son Esau; but we also find a story of blessing, a story of...

In this message Rich shares with us principles to help us keep our bearings and preserve our values when facing "Sodom-like" situations. For example, when we talk about Family Mess, the family is not isolated in its own cocoon. Families are...

In our family mess series we see in the lives of the patriarchs and their wives some of the same messes that we see in our own lives. One of these messes that is squarely addressed is the inability to conceive a child. In Biblical times, conceiving...

In our family mess series we see in the lives of the patriarchs and their wives some of the same messes that we see in our own lives. One of these messes that is squarely addressed is the inability to conceive a child. In Biblical times, conceiving...