Vineyard Columbus Sermons

"Who am I?" This is one of the great questions that we are confronted with in life. In this week's passage in Galatians, Paul says that the answer to "Who am I?" is only found by discovering, "Whose am I?" Our true...

In Paul's confrontation of Peter found in this week's passage, we learn that the gospel not only frees us to confront and speak up for truth, but we also learn that it frees us from judgmentalism, people-pleasing, conviction-less civility...

In a world that is marked by divisions, conflicts, and wars, what are the things that make for peace?  The followers of Jesus Christ are to be a people who, instead of finding ways to divide people, look for ways to bring people together.  As...

Paul's conversion is undoubtedly one of the most important world-changing events.  There is no single event, apart from the life, death and resurrection of Christ, that so determined the course of Christian history.  Paul's faith was not a religion...

Our society is becoming more and more litigious.  Today, just about anything can lead to a lawsuit.  Even in the church, there is often great conflict over the most frivolous things.  And in such a fight-drenched society, we must pause and ask...

In this first sermon of the series on the book of Galatians, Rich answers these five questions: Does truth matter? How do we know what is true?  Who needs to hear the truth?  What are the tests of the truth?  What is the truth Paul was defending?

In this special Christmas Eve sermon, and the final sermon of the Advent series, Rich looks at the witness of Simeon and Anna, and asks the question, "What if Jesus had never been born?"

The birth of Jesus was great news indeed!  And through the witness of the Shepherds, we see that the Gospel is the proclamation of news that is confrontational and paradoxical, news that is universal and personal, news that brings joy, and news that...

For much of the last 2000 years, the Christian church has swung wildly from one extreme to the other concerning how we are to regard Mary, the Mother of Jesus.  On the one hand, Mary is held is such high honor that she is worshipped alongside of...

This is the first sermon of the Advent series titled, "The Four Witnesses." In this sermon, Rich looks at the witness of Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, as he speaks of God and how he guides, how he works in mysterious ways, how...

Gratitude is more than just being polite or nice. Gratitude is the active investigation and exploration of one's life for the purpose of seeing to whom thanks should be given ("reconnaissance"). Gratitude is to recognize the giver...

One of the most identifiable ways that Jesus changes us is that he gives us welcoming hearts. And central to any understanding of the Kingdom of God is the word "welcome." God has a special place in his heart for the weak, the poor, the...