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Summer Summits - Summer 2025

There are ten famous mountains in the Bible, and each of them stands as a monument to God’s covenant love and divine plan. We'll visit each of these mountains this summer and explore God's communication with His people.

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Living in Paradox - Spring 2025

We live in a culture that craves certainty. Tension makes us uncomfortable. But following Jesus means embracing paradox. Yet paradox is not a problem to solve - it's an invitation to trust.

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Your God is Too Small - Spring 2025

By hearing afresh God’s own statements in the Bible about just how tremendous he really is, we can begin to see just how small everything else is by comparison.

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Stand Alone Sermons 2025

Stand Alone Sermon Resources for 2025.

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Origin Stories - Winter 2025

How Jesus rewrites our stories

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Bridging Christmas - Advent 2024

Christmas has always been a bridge between the secular and the sacred. While we may not appreciate secular expressions of Christmas, we should recognize it as a bridge to those around us.

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Ultra-Processed November 2024

Since shortly after Creation, we have sought phony provisions that have never satisfied our souls. Still, we persist and thereby undercut God’s design. Gratitude allows us to delightfully receive His true goodness and cut our cravings. 4-week series

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Showing Up - Fall 2024

Co-hosting with Christ

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Stand Alone Sermons 2024

Stand Alone Sermon Resources for 2024.

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CHOSEN August 2024

Chosen two-part. Columbia's Spend Yourself partnership with World Vision. August 2024

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Kingmakers - Summer 2024

1 and 2 Kings traces an uneven downward spiral that teaches us a lot about character, leadership, and faith. In this season of global polarization, we might find that the timeless truths of these ancient Scriptures are quite relevant.

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It Is NOT What It Is

Jesus came to show us what was real and expose what was not. In his Gospel, the Apostle John uses seven “signs” to show that things in our fallen world are not as they seem. Let's learn what is real and what is not.

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Lifeblood - March 2024

Why is the Bible so bloody? To fully grasp the power of the Gospel story, we have to wrestle with the Bible’s constant refrain of blood. As the church has proclaimed from its beginnings, there’s power in the blood.

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Grand Opening - The Meeting Place - 2/25/24

Grand Opening Sermon of Columbia's New Worship Center - February 25, 2024

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Alone In A Crowd - January 2024

Are we in a loneliness epidemic? What is the answer? Let's rediscover God's design for friendship by looking at King David, Jesus and Paul's experiences of loneliness and friendship.

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Essence of Christmas - Advent 2023

Jesus has appeared to us as the very essence of God and as the true humanity God has planned for us - to live abundantly as the essence of God to others. We'll study our human senses this Christmas to experience the essence of Christmas.

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Spend Local - November 2023

As Columbia enters a new era of ministry, we are ready to launch Spend Yourself 2.0 to incorporate a more robust local expression of our three Spend Yourself principles: Focused, Transformative, and Just. A 3-part series.

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Fake Fruit - Oct 2023

The Bible teaches us that “the fruit of the Spirit” is the evidence of Christ’s presence in us. Many “Christians” today seem to prefer other, worldly signals of belief that bear little resemblance to spiritual fruit. Let's compare the fruit.

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Is That All? - September 2023

A 2-part teaching on Columbia's Core Values, All New, All In and All Out. Each fall Dr. J likes to do some teaching to remind us of who we are and who we're becoming together as Columbia.

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Poetry in Motion - August 2023

A 3-part sermon about the art of living beautifully. Living out our discipleship model - identity, integration and influence - is a key aspect of this beautiful life.

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Head For The Hills - Summer 2023

How we prepare to worship has a lot to do with what we offer and experience when we actually show up. The "Psalms of Ascent" (120-134) can teach us a lot about heading for the hills to meet God.

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Passing the Test - June 2023

A 2-part sermon directed to high school graduates. A bit of biblical wisdom about remembering who they are when they are not where they have been all of their lives from the Book of Daniel

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Next? - Spring 2023

Every living human being asks “So, what's next?” The Bible does not give us every detail, but its teaching about what’s next for followers of Jesus is clear. Let’s understand our hope in eternity and compare our beliefs to other beliefs.

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Real I.D. - March 2023

The world tries to define us in a thousand different ways. God defines us in just one: We are his beloved children with whom he is well pleased. Let's say "I am who the I AM says I am."

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Heart to Heart - Winter 2023

Prayer is constant, heart to heart communication with God. Columbia's sermon series on prayer in Winter 2023.

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Rockin' Christmas - Advent 2022

Joseph and his son were most likely Temple stonemasons, not carpenters. This little seed in the Christmas story gives flower to things that Jesus taught with rock imagery throughout his ministry and gives us a lot to think about this Christmas.

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The Story of Christmas - 11/23/22

A sermon by Pastor Kris Clifford

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Taste & See - Fall 2022

God created us to need and enjoy eating, and God created food for us to eat. The Bible references food as analogy to God’s plan for his people. By surveying the food in God’s Word, we can learn a lot about the beauty of God's plan.

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Divine Delight - 9/25/22

Spend Yourself Update by Missions Pastor Greg Loewer

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A New Vision - September 2022

Dr. Baucom shares his vision for Columbia post-pandemic. A 2-part sermon.

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Showplaces - Summer 2022 - Columbia Staff Preach

A showplace is a place of interest regarded for its beauty or excellence, and that certainly describes any place God adorns tangibly with his presence. The Bible is full of showplaces that teach us to practice God's presence.

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Therefore - May & June 2022

The second half of Ephesians (4-6) is bound to the first by one word: therefore. It describes life in the power of the Resurrection practically. We have broken through from death to life, therefore we live.

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Taking the Risk - 5/1/22

A special message from Dr. John Upton, retiring Executive Director of the BGAV on May 1, 2022.

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Power & Love - 4/24/22

A sermon on Ephesians 3 - the ingredients for resurrection living by Kris Clifford.

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Breakthrough - Spring 2022

Christ is the breakthrough that enables us to break out. Success often means walking faithfully each day, but we should also live in preparation for and expectation of the huge leaps that are possible in Christ by breakthrough moments.

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Tabernacle 2/27/22

An update on Columbia's new building with Pastor Jim and Brett Flanders

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None Taken - Winter 2022

How to stop being defensive and start loving life. Columbia Sermon Series Winter 2022

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Always Ready 1/2/2022

Lora Gravatt, 1/2/2022

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Christmaphobia - Advent 2021

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Vision of Hospitality - 11/28/21

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Magic Words - Nov 2021

We can't say thanks until we know how to say please. The Psalms are an excellent place for us to discover the supernatural connection between please and thank you.

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Eternal - Fall 2021

Whole-Life Disciples of Christ ground their mortal lives in the promise and hope of immortality not merely as performance seeking eternal reward, but rather as presence in an eternal reality. To live in Christ is to live forever from now on.

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Homecoming - Aug 2021

Ezra and Nehemiah recount the return of the Jews from Babylon to Judah following a long exile and convey the significant challenges involved in coming home. Let's gain some wisdom about our own homecoming through these stories.

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Listen In - Summer 2021

Listening to our self talk in order to shape it more intentionally is an important spiritual discipline. There is a lot of self talk in the Bible, so let's learn from it.

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Holding On - Spring 2021

In our culture, we use the word “believe” constantly. In the Greek, belief is the verb form of faith ("to faith"). Today, it is important that we think carefully about what is worthy of our doing faith and what is not.

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Foreshadows - March 2021

As we anticipate Easter, we will benefit from having our minds opened so that we can see the foreshadows the early Christians saw in God’s Word, the Hebrew Bible.

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Winter Blues - Winter 2021

In our culture, we use the word “believe” constantly. In the Greek, belief is the verb form of faith ("to faith"). Today, it is important that we think carefully about what is worthy of our doing faith and what is not.