Christ Church, Columbus

04/04/2026

Tomorrow morning we will celebrate the Resurrection with worship at 10:30 and lunch following the service! All are welcome to join with us!

01/25/2026

Travel Status Update – Bartholomew County

Bartholomew County has elevated its travel status to a WARNING (Red) due to hazardous road conditions.

A Warning means travel conditions are dangerous. Travel should be avoided unless absolutely necessary, and is restricted to emergency personnel only. Snow-covered roads and worsening conditions are expected.

Please stay off the roads if possible, monitor local updates, and check the Indiana Travel Status Map before traveling. We will continue to share updates as conditions change.

Public officials will meet to reevaluate the travel status on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 8:00 am to determine if Bartholomew County will remain at Warning level or downgrade.

Stay safe.

01/25/2026

Due to the enormous blessing of snow which continues to fall here in Columbus, we will not be having services today.

10/27/2025

https://christchurchcolumbus.churchcenter.com/episodes/560254

The Law is good. Teaching it to others is good. Disobedient, faithless, proud complacency is very bad.

10/15/2025

Could you describe yourself this way?

In the first hundred years after Jesus' death and resurrection, lots of scandalous charges were brought against Christians. But their conduct, the fact that everyone could see that they were different from others in very good ways, was an important part of their defense of the faith. They could, without blushing say things like this:

"Christians are no different from the rest in their nationality, language or customs. ... They live in their own countries, but as sojourners. They fulfill all their duties as citizens, but they suffer as foreigners. They find their homeland wherever they are, but their homeland is not in any one place.... They are in the flesh, but do not live according to the flesh. They live on earth, but are citizens of heaven. They obey all laws, but they live at a level higher than that required by law. They love all, but all persecute them.”

--To Diognetus 5.1-11

10/14/2025

The God of Abraham praise, at whose supreme command
From earth I rise, and seek the joys at His right hand.
I all on earth forsake, its wisdom, fame, and power,
And Him my only portion make, my shield and tower.

10/13/2025

"'What has to be done to make the Bible acceptable to modern men and women'? ... The New Apologetic proposed to save the substance, only leaving aside the incidental: in the outcome it did nothing of the kind. Where it was accepted it left churches with the debris of many 'Christs' and a message often the opposite of the truth. The gospel was no longer God being reconciled by the death of His Son, but God, the Father of all men, helping us to make ourselves better, and the world better. 'By grace are ye saved...not of works, lest any man should boast' (Eph. 2:8-9) disappeared. 'The Christian ethic', and following the example of Christ, became the message-not the offence of what Christ has done to deliver sinners froth wrath to come."

-Iain H. Murray, How Scotland Lost Its Hold of the Bible

10/13/2025

Sunday's sermon is now available online:

10/11/2025

"Grace withers without adversity."

-Samuel Rutherford

10/09/2025

https://christchurchcolumbus.churchcenter.com/channels/25275

Christ Church Columbus's Sunday Morning Sermons on Church Center.

10/09/2025

155 years ago, give or take a year, a promising young pastor began his ministry in a Dutch church in a village of around a thousand souls. John Hendrik de Vries tells us how the new ministry went.

"As he ministered to them, they admired his talents; and soon they learned to love him for what he was; but they set themselves earnestly to united and individual prayer for his entire conversion to Christ."

Imagine a congregation supporting their new pastor that way! They recognized he was a proud, liberal, almost-Christian. But instead of immediately running him off they prayed for him.

You know there has to be more to the story. And there is. Almost immediately one thirty-something year old peasant woman stopped attending worship. So the pastor visited her to find out why. This poor, unmarried peasant woman, Pietje Baltus, told him why she didn't come to church anymore. As she did so, God used her one sentence answer to begin drawing this talented young scholar into the Light. She said:

"You do not give us the true bread of life."

Thankfully, her pastor resolved not to take offense, but instead kept returning to speak to her about how her and her fellow villagers' faith differed from his. Years later he would credit those conversations to his conversion. They were, he said, "the rise of the morning star in my life."

The pastor, Abraham Kuyper, would go on to be a powerful force in both the church and the political life of the Netherlands, eventually becoming Prime Minister from 1901-1905. His influence on the politics in the Netherlands has faded with time. Not so much his help to the church. His lectures on Calvinism are still required reading in Reformed seminaries today.

Expect the true bread Sunday. If you don't get it, pray for your pastor.