Sanctuary Columbus Sermons

August 23, 2026 "Joy & Pain" - Dr. Seth Humphries You finally get the job, the house, the healthy baby, the promotion you prayed for — and somehow you're still exhausted, still grieving, still bracing for the next thing to go wrong. What do you do when the blessing you asked God for shows up wearing the same clothes as your pain? Psalm 126 doesn't pretend those two feelings cancel each other o...

August 16, 2026 "Do You Know Who You Are?" - Pastor Rich Johnson Before you built your resume. Before you had your best year or your worst one. Before you knew what you believed. Somebody already answered the question you're still asking: do you know who you are? On a baptism Sunday, Pastor Rich Johnson steps back from the waterline and asks what's actually happening underneath the surface. Readin...

August 9, 2026 "Our Christlikeness as an Act of Worship" - Pastor Rich Johnson Obedience. Just reading that word might have made something tighten up inside you. And honestly? That reaction makes complete sense. For too many of us, obedience has been weaponized. It has been used by legalistic churches, controlling homes, and abusive systems to silence, shrink, and manipulate. It has been collapsed...

August 2, 2026 "Worship that Moves God's Heart" - Pastor Rich Johnson What if the way we worship has been missing something? Not the music. Not the passion. Not the sincerity. But something deeper — a whole dimension of worship that the American church has quietly edited out? In this message, Pastor Rich Johnson returns from three weeks of teaching at North Park Theological Seminary to open one of...

July 26, 2026 "When Idols Become the Reason" - Dr. DJuana Drew We don't usually think about idol worship and singing in the same conversation. But what if the things quietly stealing our worship are the very things we haven't named yet? In this message, Dr. DJuana Drew takes us into Psalm 115 — and invites us to look honestly at one of the most misunderstood and overlooked realities of the Christi...

July 19, 2026 "Borrowing Light from the Past" - Devin Schaffer When everything is going well, it's easy to sing about God's goodness. It's easy to talk about his faithfulness when the bills are paid, the diagnosis is clear, and the people we love are thriving. But the moment the bottom drops out — the moment the phone rings at 2AM, the job disappears, or the relationship splinters — how quickly we...

July 12, 2026 "Awe is the Reason" - Tammy Eckhart We are the most informed generation in history — and we are rarely astonished by anything. In this message, Tammy Eckhart takes us into Psalm 8 and invites us to slow down long enough to be amazed again by the God whose glory fills the heavens and yet is personally, intimately mindful of you. Because awe has to go somewhere — and worship is where a...

July 5, 2026 "What it Means to Worship" - Pastor Rich Johnson Have you ever lost your voice cheering for something? Screamed until you couldn't speak? Felt something rise up inside you that you couldn't hold back? That's worship. And it was happening long before you walked into a church. In this message, Pastor Rich Johnson takes a break from the Gospel of John series to open a new summer series c...

June 28, 2026 "Learning to See" - Pastor Rich Johnson When suffering enters our lives, we instinctively ask who's to blame — but Jesus says that's the wrong question entirely. In this message, Pastor Rich Johnson takes us into John 9, where a man born blind becomes a picture of what happens when we stop living in the geography of the wound and start asking what God might want to do next. Because h...

June 21, 2026 "Born Into It" - Pastor Rich Johnson

June 14, 2026 "Found in the Dirt" - Pastor Rich Johnson Most of us grew up with a definition of sin that focused on behavior — the rules we break and the punishment that follows. But in this message, Pastor Rich Johnson takes us from Genesis 3 to John 8 to show us that sin is far deeper than broken rules: it is a rupture in our relationship with God, ourselves, and one another. And Jesus came not...

May 31, 2026 "Which Jesus Do You Know?" - Pastor Rich Johnson All of us have been handed a version of Jesus before we ever had the chance to read him for ourselves — shaped by our upbringing, our culture, our politics, and our past experiences. In this message, Pastor Rich Johnson takes us into John 7, where Jesus walks into a crowd full of competing biases and refuses to be defined by any of them...

May 24, 2026 "Hungry No More" - Pastor Rich Johnson You finally got the promotion. The hunger remained. You finally got the affirmation. The insecurity returned. You finally bought the thing you'd been wanting your whole life. The satisfaction faded. Sound familiar? We are the most highly resourced, endlessly entertained, and accessibly connected generation in human history. And we are quietly, pe...

May 17, 2026 "The Life-Giving Authority of Jesus" - Pastor Micah Morgan What do you actually expect when you come to Jesus? Do you expect anger? Force? A God who is waiting to catch you doing something wrong? Or do you expect life? Because what you expect of Jesus shapes everything — how you feel, how you think, and how you love. In this message, Pastor Micah Morgan takes us into John chapter 5, w...

May 10, 2026 "Do You Want to Be Well?" - Nancy Dumford A broken princess wand. A little girl's tears. And a grandmother with a hot glue gun doing her best to hold it all together. Sound familiar? Because if we're honest, most of us spend more time hot-gluing our lives back together than we do actually pursuing wholeness. We cope. We manage. We keep the game of pretend going. Until Jesus shows up a...

May 3, 2026 "The Woman at the Well" - Pastor Rich Johnson She wasn't supposed to be there. And Jesus wasn't supposed to talk to her. But he went out of his way — through a place no self-respecting Jewish man would travel — just to meet her at a well at noon. And what happened next changed everything. In this message, Pastor Rich Johnson takes us into the longest one-on-one conversation Jesus has w...

April 26, 2026 "Nic at Night" - Pastor Rich Johnson He had every credential. Every answer. Every religious box checked. And yet something kept him up at night — restless, questioning, unsettled — until he finally decided to go find Jesus himself. Nicodemus wasn't a skeptic. He was the most religious man in the room. And that's exactly what made his encounter with Jesus so disorienting. In this mes...

April 19, 2026 "Discipled by What Detours Jesus" - Pastor Rich Johnson You can tell a lot about a person by what distracts them. What grabs their attention when they're focused on something else. What makes them stop, change course, and pay a cost they didn't plan to pay. In this message, Pastor Micah Morgan takes us into John chapter 2 — and instead of focusing on what Jesus did, asks us to pay a...

April 12, 2026 "What Do You Want?" - Pastor Rich Johnson Jesus is walking by. He turns. He looks right at you. And he asks the most disruptive question in all of spiritual formation: What do you want? It sounds simple. But if you sit with it long enough, you'll realize how hard it actually is to answer — and how much it reveals about where you really are in your faith. In this message, Pastor Rich...

April 5, 2026 "The Last Word" - Pastor Rich Johnson A verdict. A diagnosis. A relationship that ended with words you can't forget. Whatever gets the last word somehow gets to define what is meaningful in our lives. And whether we realize it or not, all of us are living under someone's last word. So the question underneath Easter is this: who gets the last word over your life? In this Easter Sunday...

March 29, 2026 "The Difference Jesus' Lordship Makes" - Pastor Micah Everyone is investing in emotional health these days. Therapy, self-help apps, mindfulness — the world is all in. So what actually makes a Jesus follower's emotional health any different? In this final message of the Journey to Wholeness series, Pastor Micah Morgan takes us to the last chapter of Joseph's story — and asks the que...

March 22, 2026 "Reconciliation is More Than a Moment" - Pastor Rich Johnson You had the hard conversation. The tears were shed. The apology was given. So why does it still feel like there's more work to do? In this message, Pastor Rich Johnson takes us to the other side of Joseph's story — past the dramatic reunion, past the moment of confession, and into the long, slow, beautiful work of actually...

March 15, 2026 "A Road Called Repair" - Rev. William Mack Forgiveness sounds simple. Reconciliation sounds beautiful. But if you've ever actually tried to do either one, you know how hard this road really is. In this message, Rev. William Mack walks us through one of the most emotionally raw moments in Joseph's story — the moment he comes face to face with the brothers who sold him into slavery. A...

March 8, 2026 "Forgotten But Not Forsaken" - Pastor Rich Johnson Have you ever felt forgotten? Overlooked? Like you've been waiting so long that God must have moved on without you? In this message, Pastor Rich walks us through one of the most overlooked seasons in Joseph's story — the two full years he spent in prison after being forgotten by the cupbearer. 730 days. No explanation. No timeline. N...

March 1, 2026 "Integrity in Hidden Places" - Pastor Micah Morgan