Vineyard Columbus Sermons

Pastor Rich Nathan offers really wise advice on what we should set our hope on during the Coronavirus pandemic. Our hope is anchored in the past: Jesus rose! Our hope remains in the present: Jesus lives! Our hope is completed in the future: Jesus is coming! Christian hope is not falsely optimistic, but realistic. Most importantly, it results in God glorifying those who trust in Him!

Pastor Shane and the VC Twenty community take us on a poetic reprise of love announcing the death of Death in the death of Christ for ALL who would have faith to believe.

Pastors Eric and Julia Pickerill teach about how to build a life that has a foundation strong enough to withstand the toughest storms by looking to Jesus. They also give a call to action including radical generosity and fervent prayer.

Pastor Charles shares strong encouragement about how to successfully navigate the quarantine or difficult times like the current COVID-19 crisis. He shares more than easy church answers. He provides solid, biblical guidance like the following: 1. Having faith that is firm through disappointment. 2. Developing relationship with faithful friends who will pray for you through doubt. 3. Praying for God to help you see the signs that He is at work and doing good things, in spite of difficulty.

Pastor Rich walks us through Psalm 46 and other scriptures to demonstrate how God is our refuge and continues to be the One who makes our lives secure even during a trying time like the age of the Coronavirus.

Pastor Rich teaches us how we can choose not to worry during the Age of the Coronavirus because God is in control, He loves us, and will care for us. In addition, he encourages us to love our neighbor by caring for one another during this time of crisis.

Pastor Julia discusses how to handle doubt when we experience suffering.

Eric begins a new sermon series called "Navigating Doubt". In this teaching he will focus on the external factors that contribute to doubt and how we can navigate a culture of doubt to trust God more.

Ash Wednesday 2020

Dr. Charles Montgomery, Jr. teaches about the church's role in partnering with families to raise healthy kids through cultivation, authentic modeling, and active engagement.

Eric Pickerill continues the series of talks about raising healthy kids. In today's talk he provides a biblical view of disciplining children in a healthy way.

Eric Pickerill speaks about those that have been marginalized in our society, focusing on the area of sex trafficking.

Rich Nathan discusses the importance of immigrants in our world today and interviews Irene Casale-Petrarca.

Pastors Eric and Julia look into several Psalms as we reflect on the last year and look forward to the next.

Pastor Rich will be concluding our series "What Are You Waiting For?" with a Christmas Eve message focusing on "The Light Has Come" from John 1

Pastor Julia will be teaching out of Luke 1 from the life of Mary and what we can learn from her about waiting with God: That while we often feel like we’re waiting for a far-away God, we can actually draw near to God-with-us, Immanuel, in the midst of whatever else we’re waiting for.

Dr. Charles Montgomery Jr. continues the Advent series What Are You Waiting For? by taking a look at Simeon in Luke 2:25-33.

Pastor Rich continues in the Advent series titled What Are You Waiting For? In the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth from Luke 1:5-25, we can learn how to wait well. Learning to wait well has to do with dealing with the lies we believe about God. Lies like he doesn’t remember us, or remember our prayers, or that he has forgotten us. The only thing that God doesn’t remember is our sin! Come and be encouraged!

Pastor Shane Huey continues the series What Are you Waiting For? by taking a look at Joseph in Matthew 1:18-25.

Pastor Rich begins a new series for Advent with a sermon about how to be people who wait well. He will be talking about Israel waiting in exile; waiting for deliverance; waiting for God's Word, and he will also refer to scripture from Luke 3. Pastor Rich plans to give a Gospel call, so if you have been trained and are part of our Decision Prayer Team, please come ready to pray with those who stand to accept Jesus. The remainder of the Prayer Ministry Team should be ready to come forward when he calls for the Prayer Ministry Team for all other prayer needs. Please remember to look around after you pray for someone to see if anyone else desires prayer.

Pastor Rich Nathan concludes the Just Pray series, and talks about how to overcome temptation using scripture from Matthew 6:13. He talks about the three marks of temptation and the times temptation is most likely to come and concludes with two prayers we can pray to help us overcome temptation.

Pastor Eric Pickerill continues in the series called Just Pray, and looks at the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. In this sermon Pastor Eric focus is on the phrase, “Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”

Pastor Charles Montgomery will continue our look at the Lord’s Prayer in the series called Just Pray this weekend with his sermon titled “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread” from Matthew 6:11. Pastor Charles will show us how the Prince of Peace provides us with us a pattern of prayer that helps to appropriate our relationship with God. Our relationship with God ought to be characterized by thankfulness and dependence.

Pastor Rich Nathan continues in the series called Just Pray, and looks at the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. Pastor Rich focus is on the phrase, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.” Pastor Rich also talks about what God promises us when we pray for his kingdom to come. For the depressed it means celebration, and for the guilty it means forgiveness.

Pastor Julia Pickerill delivers a message on looking at the first few words of the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13, and considering how praying the "Our Father," invites us further into relationship with one another, and with our Father God.

Pastor Rich Nathan delivers a powerful message on learning through a personal relationship with Jesus.

Pastor Eric Pickerill delivers part 1 of a 2-week message focusing on the gifts of the Spirit. God gifts us each differently, however, we can use our different gifts to work together for the building up of the church.

Pastor Julia Pickerill will continue in the Transforming Power for your Life series with the messaged entitled, "The Holy Spirit & Power." Pastor Julia talks about encountering the Holy Spirit through its power.

Pastor Rich Nathan delivers a message entitled "How to Know that You're a Child of God." Pastor Rich helps us to explore what it means to be a child of our Father. How do we know that we are “Children of God”?

Pastor Dr. Charles Montgomery delivers a message on understanding the Holy Spirit by seeing how the Holy Spirit helped Jesus.

Pastor Rich Nathan kicks off our new series with an introduction to the Holy Spirit in his sermon The Holy Spirit I Never Knew. Pastor Rich talks about confusion people have about the Holy Spirit and the various ways the Holy Spirit is pictured in Scripture. It is symbolized as a dove, as wind, and as a helper. What do these things mean? The Bible says the Spirit is God’s right hand. We can experience the touch of God through the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Eric Pickerill wraps up our Never Give Up series with his sermon Never Give Up where he talks through life being really full. It can be overwhelming with school starting and all our other obligations. How do we juggle it all? He will talk about how we can discern how God wants us to juggle our busy lives.

Pastor Rich Nathan preaches from the thought of living a good and meaningful life. The author of Hebrews teaches us in Hebrews 12 that life is a strenuous journey. We will endure suffering and suffering will produce in us growth and gratitude. We must be careful not to be trapped in bitterness when we suffer. We need to learn to forgive and continue on in our journey.

Pastor Julia Pickerill continues in the Never Give Up series using the text from Hebrews 11:13-12:3 regarding the perfecting of the faith. Pastor Julia talks about how the early church dealt with specific challenges in their faith and how we can learn from those lessons today.

Pastor Rich Nathan continues with our Never Give Up sermon series with a message entitled "What’s So Great About Faith?" He will be defining faith, looking at the examples of faith from Hebrews 11, and pointing out where is there room for doubt. Faith is not something we have just in the beginning of our walk with the Lord, it’s something we must continue to nurture throughout our lives. And for those who haven’t yet started on a journey of faith, this is a good time to begin.

One of the troubling trends in America, mostly among young adults, but by no means confined to young adults, is the continuing movement of people away from church and away from Christian faith. Slightly more than one-third of all Millennials (ages 18-38) are unaffiliated with any faith. Now, that’s the highest percentage among any age group. The focus of this message is not on the failure of the church – what can the church do better to retain our people or to retain the young, but it really focuses on the responsibility of individuals for our own faith. What do you and I need to do to personally stay connected to faith and fellowship?

Pastor Dr. Charles Montgomery speaks about the efficacy of Christ’s blood for the remission of our sins as he continues in the series Never Give Up.

Pastor Andy Saperstein continues our Never Give Up series with his sermon titled "A New and Better Way." Many of us are content to stick with what we know, our old things, and our old way of doing things. This was the case with the 1st century Jewish believers; they were being tempted to return to their old way of life. Jesus, however, had offered a new way of relating to God – a way to bring them into closer relationship with God. That way is available to us today too!

Pastor Rich Nathan continues into the sermon series "Never Give Up." Have you ever been in a situation where you doubted God's faithfulness? Pastor Rich talks about how to overcome your doubts whether you are new to Christianity or you're a long-time believer.

Pastor Scott Engebretson preaches his sermon titled "Never Give Up Even When Life Feels Dull." Christians who have been in the church a long time sometimes start to feel dull spiritually. This passage of scripture encourages us to be sharp and to work toward keeping our sharpness. Pastor Scott give us some practical tools to keep us sharp spiritually.

Pastor Amanda Nash continues in the book of Hebrews with her sermon titled "Don’t Miss Out on God’s Rest." Amanda helps us to discover that Jesus offers us a better rest – a rest that reconnects us with community and reminds us who we are and helps us to make room for others.

Pastor Shane Huey continues into the study of Hebrews by looking at its third chapter. The author of Hebrews is challenging us to consider Jesus and to let his surpassing worth be the motivation to persevere in our faith.

In this message, Dr. Charles Montgomery will be preaches on The Danger of Drifting. How do you know if you’re drifting from Jesus? The bottom line is that you must have your anchor in Jesus Christ so that you won’t drift away.

Pastor Rich Nathan kicks off a new sermon series titled Never Give Up. This summer-long series is a verse-by-verse preaching through the entire book of Hebrews. Rich starts by giving some background information about the book of Hebrews. This letter was addressed to Jewish believers who were being significantly persecuted. The great temptation for the Jewish believers was to slide back into their old ways to avoid persecution. A modern-day example of this same type of persecution are churches in China. There is huge pressure economically and socially to pull out of the church. The author of Hebrews holds up Jesus as the One to whom all Scripture points. How do we hold on? By lifting our eyes up to Jesus!

Pastor Rich wraps up the Overcomers series with his sermon titled Never Forget! 166 times in the Bible we’re told to remember. A fundamental problem in our lives and in the Bible is forgetting. In the Bible, Passover (in the Old Testament) and Communion (in the New Testament) are both wonderful examples of remembering. The way we grow spiritually is to remember the pain of sin and remember the grace of God.

Pastor Rich Nathan continues the Overcomers series with the sermon about overcoming our past. He interviews Nicole Bromley about being abused by her stepfather and how she overcame her circumstances to help others in similar situations.