Columbia View Podcast

In a society full of racial tension, how is the church supposed to look different? In this episode, Pastor Don paints a beautiful picture of the racial diversity our people represent, and inspires us that our worship is what unites us as one.

In this episode, Pastor David Rannabargar shares several ways our church is currently praying and then challenges us to continue in this practice as Jesus followers corporately.

In this episode, Pastor Don challenges us in the age of "deconstructionism" to make sure that we then reconstruct from the Word of God. Are our beliefs and practices being shaped primarily from the Word of God, or other sources?

W've all heard, at one time or another, some version of the "health, wealth, and prosperity" gospel. It goes something like, "follow God, and everything will be ok." In this episode, Pastor Don Blain critiques this American version of prospering with a biblical one, and from it gives practical insight on how we as Christians can allow God to prosper us

In this episode, Pastor David Rannabargar raises some thought provoking points around what is shaping our lives. Are we being formed more by the world's agenda, or Jesus'?

In episode 2 of our series "Formation, what's shaping your life" Pastor Don Blain shares with us the role of repentance in our formation into become the people God wants us to be.

In part 1 of our 4 part series entitled, "Formation, what's shaping your life?" Pastor Don Blain explores a piece of Jesus' "goodbye" speech to his disciples. Being shaped by Christ in the context of other followers provides us the training ground for what life will be like for all eternity, where there are no more goodbyes.

In this episode, Pastor David Rannabargar finishes up our year long preaching series on the New Testament with Revelation.

In this episode, Pastor Don explores the fourth advent theme: love.

In this episode, Pastor Don Blain discusses the correlation between our joy as Christians, and our obedience to Jesus. Dive in with us for part 3 in our advent series.

In this episode, Pastor David Rannabargar addresses a question many people ask... where can I find peace? He dives into the story of Mary and the angel Gabriel to pull out biblical truth that speak to this question, offering compelling application along the way.

In this episode, Pastor Pat Acedo takes us through 1 John. In a day and age of so much false teaching, how can we know we are walking in the truth? This episode explores this question and many others.

What pictures do you find in your family photo album? Sometimes these pictures bring great joy, other times they bring great grief. In this episode, Pastor David Rannabargar teaches on a new family identity we can have in Christ found in 1 Peter 2:9-10

In this episode, Pastor Don Blain continues teaching from the book of James chapter 4:1-10. When we hear God's voice, are we willing to submit to him? Listen to this episode to find out what happens when we do.

"I don't want him grabbing me in the flank anymore... it hurts!" In this episode, Pastor Don Blain takes us into James 1 to pull out what God says about overcoming trials and temptations.

In this episode Pastor Don Blain takes us through a common and popular passage, the "Faith Chapter" in Hebrews 11.

In this episode, Pastor David Rannabargar takes us into the world of a young, first century pastor named Titus. What is the church to do when the work at hand seems too much to accomplish on ones own? The solution lies somewhere in a peculiar people that God is creating and forming around the person and work of Jesus.

In this episode, Pastor Don Blain launches from a famous quote from 17th century Lutheran Theologian Rupertus Meldinius. "In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. in all things, charity." How much division among modern evangelicals has come from, as the Apostle Paul put it to Timothy, "stupid arguments?" How does God desire his body, the church, to function together amidst differences of...

In this episode, Pastor Don uses 1 Timothy 2:8 as a launching pad for inspiring diverse christian communities to not allow their differences to drive each other away, but to draw each other into prayer. He leverages several other passages from both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible to build on this idea, wrapping things up with a compelling challenge for both new and mature believers.

In this episode, Pastor Don dives into a passage in 1 Thessalonians 5 and relates it to our lives today.