Vineyard Columbus Sermons

Jesus always seems to be switching the price tags on everything. Things we consider to be really valuable, Jesus says are worthless. And things we consider to be worthless, Jesus says that these are the things that God really counts as important. We...

Using the story of the man who was healed at the Pool of Bethesda, Rich teaches that healing (physical, emotional, spiritual, relational) is the birthright and mark of the Christian church. But somewhere along the way, the message and ministry of...

How do we figure out what is right and what is wrong? When we talk about hot-button issues like torture, surrogate-motherhood, doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, or gambling, we tend to address them at a surface level. But we must go deeper and ask...

If Jesus is really true and really there, why is the truth not more obvious? The problem here is not with the message but with our hearing. In order to have kingdom impact, we must not submit to formulas, but instead, we must have faith, we must be...

The gift of forgiveness that we have through Jesus Christ is the hope that our past is not our future. But why is it that we find it so difficult to seek and receive forgiveness? Using the story of Jesus' encounter with a sinful woman and a...

Our God is a generous God. He is so generous that we can trust him without guarantees. He is so generous that he invites us to serve him in order to meet our need. He is so generous that he overwhelms us with his extravagance. Teaching from the...

The gospel is this world-changing good news that Jesus died and rose and ascended and gave us his Spirit to transform us and the world. But for many, this enormous gospel has been reduced to nothing but a fire insurance policy. In this first sermon of...

In this final sermon from the series, "God at Work," Rich teaches on how we can bring our faith into our workplaces through ethics, experience, evangelism, and enrichment.

Since the great fall in Genesis, the work environment is cursed, the results of our work are cursed, and the workers themselves are cursed. Teaching from Revelation 18, Rich gives an overview of what it means to work in Babylon which is characterized...

The gap between Sunday and Monday, between worship and work, between secular and sacred, is a matter that concerns all of us. In this sermon, Rich launches a new teaching series entitled, "God at Work" where he looks at how this great divide...

If indeed there is a God, and if indeed he created the heavens and the earth, and if indeed he created us, then there is no question more important that we can ask than this: Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? In this exposition of Psalm 24...

As Christians we are called to live as salt and light in this world. And while we may have the desire to share our faith with others, we don't always know how to do it. In this sermon, Rich teaches that before we can speak to people about God, we...

On this sermon, Rich tackles a passage in the Bible that speaks about the role of women, children, and slaves. How are we to interpret and understand this passage? Does the Bible teach that slavery is acceptable? What about the role of women in...

Last week Rich focused on the false ways to grow as a Christian. This week, Rich teaches on the true way to grow as a Christian, which is to embrace our identity in Christ.