Vineyard Columbus Sermons

Do you have to be a bleeding heart liberal to care about the poor? Can we write off poverty as the consequence of the laziness and bad choices of people? Or is can we assume by the more than 2000 passages in the Bible regarding the poor and God's...

Some of us have been through tough things and have massive obstacles standing in our way in life but still manage to break through our limitations and use everything that God has given us to the fullest extend possible. Learn how to break through...

There are a lot of things that Christians can legitimately disagree about, but if we were to ask the Apostle Paul about the center of faith in Christ, he would resoundingly respond, "the resurrection!" Rich outlines Paul's seven point...

When Jesus came riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, he was teaching us about how different God's Kingdom is from the way things work in our world, and how different he is from all of our expectations of what he should be like. In this Palm Sunday...

Psalm 110 gives prophetic vision to three powerful images of Christ as king, priest, and warrior. In this message, Rich expands what each of these roles of Jesus means through a Psalm written long before Christ came to earth.

All human beings were created with an inherent need for intimate relationship with others and with God. Psalm 139 is an eloquent expression of the depths to which God knows us and cares for us personally, jealously, and intimately.

There is so much injustice in the world around us that it can seem overwhelming and feel like life is incomprehensible. It is only in seeing the world through the eyes of the psalmist, through eyes that look up at God before looking down at injustice...

We live in an instant society that hates to wait for anything. However, one of the main methods that God uses to form Christian maturity and spiritual growth in us is the process of waiting. Rich teaches about the importance of our response to God in...

Though we try to insulate our lives against disaster by buying every conceivable kind of insurance and taking every precaution, we still live in a world of uncertainty that we cannot control. The psalmist lived in the same world and found the only...

Most of us think we know what worship is: the first half hour of church when we sing songs to God. But the worship of the Psalms extends well beyond this narrow understanding. The Psalms can help us begin to answer the questions of why worship God?...

Have you ever asked God "Why?" Why did he allow that tragedy to happen when he could have avoided it so easily? We are not alone in bringing these questions to God, Jesus did too. In this message, Rich tells of the great comfort that can...

What does it mean to be human? How do we find our identity as human beings? It is these fundamental questions of identity that the psalmist takes up in Psalm 8 and discovers an answer in light of relationship to God.

This is an introduction to the series and to the book of Psalms as a whole. Rich shows how Psalm 1 functions as a doorway into the book as a whole and how it teaches us to live a life rooted in God that can withstand the storms of life.

In this Christmas Eve message, Rich uses the Magi as a lens through which to view our own attitudes as we approach Jesus. Some of us are threatened by Him, like Herod, whereas others of us are indifferent like the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law...

Whenever people are given a taste of power, the natural tendency is to begin thinking that they deserve it and can now make outrageous demands of others because they can. However, Jesus modeled an entirely different way managing power: through serving...

What does it mean to be a Christian? Is it just a belief or religious rituals? Or is it a way of life that beckons us to serve others the way that Jesus did? Rich explains how if it is a way of life, we had better assess the cost of what that means...

The most fundamental human endeavor is to seek happiness, yet most of us are looking for it in the wrong places. We chase after happiness in relationships, in wealth, and in power instead of in God. Rich realigns this fundamental quest of humanity...

Our culture tells us to win by winning, but Jesus has a different plan for our relationships: we win by losing.  In this message, Rich demonstrates how to win by losing in our marriages, in our families, in our workplaces, when we become people that...

Perhaps the most basic and fundamental question that anyone could ever ask is: What does the Lord require of you? On the weekend that Vineyard Columbus celebrates the grand opening of the Community Center, Rich outlines how we are to move forward into...

Many Christians know all about the intricacies of the light of God's Word but can't shine it on the path ahead to illuminate other areas of life. In this message, Rich teaches how to think biblically through the pressing issues of our...