Vanguard Church of Colorado Springs: Recent Episodes
Vanguard Church
Vanguard Church is a community of believers that has been fulfilling the mission of loving the people of Colorado Springs, Colorado into a real relationship with Jesus Christ since 1997. Vanguard Church is led by Senior Pastors Kelly and Tosha Williams.
Luke 14:7-11; Philippians 2:3-4; 1 Peter 2:19-35; Galatians 5:19-24; John 13:35
Teaching Team Members: Candice Covak and Jenni Ehrlin
Various Scripture: KJV Heb 4:15; Is 53:3-4; Jn 11:35; Ps 147:3; Ps 23:1-6; Ps 34:18; Is 66:13a; 1 Cor 15:54-55; Rev 7:17; Rev 21:3-7 Teaching Team Member: David Corbitt
Proverbs 14:13, 1 Corinthians 10:31, 1 Samuel 16:7, Luke 18:9-14
Acts 4:32-35, Acts 5:1-5, Numbers 13:1-33,14:1-2, 11-12, 15-16, 20-24, 33
Joshua 14: 10-12
2 KINGS 15:1-38; 2 Chronicles 26:4-5, 16-21; Ephesians 5:8-11; Proverbs 29:2; Isaiah 1:1; John 14:12-14
Teaching Team Member: Melissa Pritchard
Series: Advent Series- Do You See What I See?
Speaker: Pastor Candice Covak
Scripture: Isaiah 7:14; Hebrews 11:1; Matthew 1:22-23; Philippians 4:13
New Series: Who is Vanguard?
CORE VALUE #1: BE A LOVER OF GOD AND PEOPLE
VARIOUS SCRIPTURES
08.03.2025
Speaker: Kelly Williams
Teaching Team Member: Pastor Candice Covak
Various Scriptures
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06.29.2025
Teaching Team Member: Sr Pastor Kelly Williams
JOHN 9:1-41
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06.22.2025
Teaching Team Member: Sr Pastor Kelly Williams
JOHN 10:1-42
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06.15.2025
SPEAKER : PASTOR KELLY WILLIAMS
JOHN 19:17-42, 20:1-18, AND 20:19:31
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04.20.2025
JOHN 17:1-26, 18:1-11, 18:12-19:16 (ALL SCRIPTURE ESV) 04.13.2025
Speaker: Kelly Williams
Speaker: Mark Bacheldor
Scripture: John 12:1-50 and John 13:1-17
Series: New Beginnings
ROMANS 5:1-5 AND 1 SAMUEL 1:1-11 AND 2:9-10
New Series: Unwrapped
Speaker:Kelly Williams
James 4:14, Hebrews 9:27-28, Mark 8:34-38
Speaker: Pastor Kelly Williams
Connection Weekend
KINGS 2:1-4,
ROMANS 12:1-3,
ROMANS 13:13-14,
MATTHEW 16:24-27
Speaker: Pastor Kelly Williams
How do we move from our own intuition to trusting in God’s provision?
Series: He Never Said That
Speaker: Mark Bacheldor
SERMON SERIES: YOU ASKED FOR IT!
2 Samuel 11:26-12:7, 13-15; Luke 22:54-62; Acts 5:1-11;
1 Kings 22:20-23
06.23.2024
Speaker: Kelly Williams
New Series: Thorny Christians becoming Thirsty Followers
1 CORINTHIANS 1:1-17
01.14.2024
THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS: FINDING CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS
MATTHEW 1:1, 18-25, DEUTERONOMY 13:1-5
It's Glocal Month here at Vanguard. This month is dedicated to looking out towards our community, city, and world and celebrating all of our ministry partners that reach the needs of the church and our city in Jesus' name We are joined by Dr. Mike Proud of the Southern Baptist Convention as he shares the heart of church planting.
Pastor Kelly continues in our Ephesians series with a sermon on what to do with our anger.
Elder Joshua Stephenson details the grind of being a follower of Jesus and the joys of having new life in Christ.
Pastor Kelly tackles the tough subject of unity in the body of Christ in our next installment of our current Ephesians series.
We continue in our series, "FaithGRIND" as Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams addresses racial, gender, economic, and societal divides within the Church.
Teaching Pastor Candice Covak opens up Ephesians 2 as we continue in our FaithGRIND series.
We continue in our latest series, FaithGRIND. Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams dives into Ephesians 1.
Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams launches a new series based out of the book of Ephesians, FaithGRIND.
We close out of summer series, "Unusual Suspects" as Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams goes into the rich history of Vanguard Church and holding the legacy of church in tension with the scriptures.
Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams shocks us with the title but gives a potent message on God being able to use anyone! We continue in our summer series, "Unusual Suspects".
Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams takes of through the life and conversion of Paul as we continue in our "Unusual Suspects" summer series.
Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams joins in our summer series and details John 4 and the moment that the woman at the well with Jesus, becomes the first female evangelist.
Teaching Pastor Candice Covak addresses 2 of the most unlikely and unusual suspects in our current series, the thieves crucified with Jesus.
Worship Pastor Aaron McClain continues in our Unusual Suspects series, with Asaph, the chief of David's Tabernacle of praise.
We continue in our summer series, "Unusual Suspects" with our Ministries Pastor Jenni Ehrlin. We go into Joshua 2 and explore the life and choices of Rahab that led her to being in the lineage of Jesus.
We've entered into our summer series, with Teaching Pastor Candice Covak. She launches us into this series by highlighting our first unusual suspect: the woman with the issue of blood, crawling her way through the crowd to get to the hem of Jesus' robe. It's gonna be a good summer!
We close out our short "You Asked For It" series with Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams addressing the controversial topic within the church of "white magic" and "good" witches. Spoiler Alert: There's no such thing.
Happy Father's DAY! Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams continues with our "You Asked For It" series while addressing the hard work of parenting in 2023 from a biblical worldview.
We are on to week 2 of our latest sermon series, You Asked For It, with Student Pastor Micah Schwarz!
It's baptism Sunday here at Vanguard! We also launch a new series, "You Asked For It". We have polled you, and we have heard you. Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams, addresses this hot button topic in our society today within the scope of scripture.
We celebrate Pentecost here at Vanguard Central! We partner with our sister church, Living Word, and enjoy a bilingual worship service with a joint-sermon from Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams & Pastora Claudia Herrera of Living Word.
We've reached the 20th installment of our Ezekiel series, "God of Our Future" with Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams.
Happy Mother's Day! Pastor Tosha Williams takes us through Ezekiel 43-46 as we continue in our Ezekiel series.
We dive into Ezekiel 43 with Pastor Kelly as we continue our "God of Our Future" series
Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams tackles a tough passage of scripture as we continue in our Ezekiel series.
Our Student Pastor Micah Schwarz, dives into Ezekiel 40 as we continue in our God of Our Future series
It's Easter! Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams continues with our Ezekiel series this Easter. He IS RISEN!
Happy Palm Sunday! Pastor Kelly Williams continues in our series out of the book of Ezekiel called, "God of Our Future".
The voice of our Vanguard Podcast, Pastor Tosha Williams continues in our Ezekiel series, "God of Our Future".
It's Vanguard's 26th Anniversary and Baptism Sunday! As of March 5th, Vanguard has baptized 3,336 people into new life and walking with Jesus. We continue in our Ezekiel series, God of Our Future with Pastor Kelly Williams.
Pastor Kelly Williams continues in our Ezekiel series, God of Our Future. He addresses unrepentant sin, and how God responds to it.
Pastor Kelly teaches on restoration and reconciliation in our 6th installment of "God of Our Future" series.
Teaching Pastor Candice Covak continues in our Ezekiel series, God of Our Future with a powerful teaching on fear knots and fear-nots.
Happy NEW YEAR. We enter into 2023 with a new series based on the book of Ezekiel. Pastor Kelly introduces this first series by teaching about hearing God's voice.
We continue in our Christmas series, Worth the Wait, with our Student Pastor Micah Schwarz.
We continue in our Christmas series and dive into Isaiah to talk about the prophetic declarations of the coming Messiah with Pastor Kelly Williams.
It's Baptism Sunday at Vanguard Church and we're continuing in our Worth the Wait series with Pastor Kelly Williams teaching us about the Person of Jesus.
We launch into our Christmas series, Worth the Wait. Pastor Kelly reminds us of the promise of the coming Messiah, going all the back to Genesis.
Glocal Month at Vanguard Church kicks off with Rich Bennett, founder of Life Network teaching us of the value of life as Christ followers
We continue with our Micah series, Oracles. Pastor Kelly Williams teaches us about God's discipline towards us.
Pastor Kelly Williams walks us through the EndTime prophecies written in Joel as we continue in our Faith Drift series.
Pastor Kelly Williams leads us as we begin a new series in the small but powerful book of Joel.
Sr. Pastor Kelly Williams closes out our summer series "CREED" with this phrase, "God, you are our Father and we will follow you!" As we close out this series, Pastor Kelly encourages us to follow Jesus closely!
Pastor Kelly Williams returns from his summer sabbatical commemorating 25 faithful years of leading Vanguard Church! He continues in our CREED series and addresses the cost of ministry.
Worship Pastor Aaron McClain continues in our CREED series with a deep word on how to give every day to Jesus as a sacrifice of praise.
We've been getting blessed by our CREED series, based on our united benediction, "The Sending". Candice Covak shares her heart on worshiping in spirit and in truth! Come get this WORD!
Our church has been enjoying our CREED series, based on our united benediction, "The Sending". We continue with Elder Joshua Stephenson teaches us own Kingdom stewardship.
Our ministries pastor, Jenni Ehrlin gives her first sermon here at Vanguard Central on prayer, love, and walking with Jesus and with each other. We continue in our united benediction series: CREED.
One of our esteemed elders, Joshua Stephenson, gives us a riveting message on the call of every Christian: Multiply and make disciples. He tackles the "a multiplier" phrase in our united benediction, The Sending, as we continue in our CREED series!
Our Worship Pastor Aaron McClain speaks on Christ-like leadership as we continue in our series on our united benediction: The Sending.
Teaching Pastor Candice Covak continues our series on our united benediction, 'The Sending' entitled "CREED". She tackles the topic of our brokenness and inability to see God through the pain of our lives.
We're in full gear with our summer series, "CREED"; a deep dive into the biblical and theological precedent for our united benediction, The Sending. We continue with our Student Pastor Micah Schwarz with the phrase, "I am Chosen, Forgiven, Redeemed and Restored."
Our Summer series this year is entitled CREED. At the end of every service we have united benediction entitled, "The Sending". Throughout the summer months we will biblically address each line/phrase in 'The Sending' to remember what Vanguard stands for, and ultimately what we stand for as believers in Jesus. Pastor Aaron Williams kicks off our sermon series with "God, you are our Father, and we will follow you..."
We've come to the final message in our 26 week series in the Gospel of Matthew, JESUS: Making His Story Our Story. Pastor Kelly Williams details the signs and events that must take place in order for Jesus to return. He reminds us to watch, pray, and be ready.
This is the second to last sermon in our beloved Matthew series, " Making Jesus' Story Our Story", AND it's Baptism Sunday for us here at Vanguard Church! Pastor Kelly will detail the Kingdom of Heaven as Jesus described it: both it's appearance and how to enter in. Immediately after this sermon we baptized people into new life and welcomed them into the Kingdom.
Our Matthew series, "Making Jesus' Story, Our Story" continues as we begin to land the plane on after nearly 6 months. Pastor Kelly opens the scriptures to talk about Peter, James, and John on the Mount of Transfiguration and their response to a massive change in how they see Jesus and what they means for us as followers of Jesus.
Pastor Kelly continues in our Matthew series with a hilarious clip from the movie "Jerry Maguire". Pastor Kelly talks to us about financial stewardship and what Jesus says about the stewardship of all our resources.
"What must I do to obtain eternal life?" This is the question the Rich Young Ruler asked Jesus in Matthew 19. As we continue in our series, Jesus: Making His Story Our Story, Pastor Kelly breaks down the reality of eternal life and how we obtain it according to the words of Jesus.
Happy Mother's Day!!! As a wife of 29 years, a mother of 5 children, and a pastor, Pastor Tosha Williams knows more than a little about relying on God to be a good mother and how He has held her family steady in the midst of life's highs and lows. Today we get to hear from a mother's heart.
This week, Pastor Kelly talks to us about the spiritual authority that Jesus has and what that means for us. We continue in our Matthew series, Jesus: Making His Story Our Story.
We continue with our series in Matthew through the life and words of Jesus, as our Student Pastor Micah Schwarz tells his testimony and encourages us to see the challenges of life as a means to grow into deeper relationship with Jesus.
HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED! Happy Resurrection Day! On this Easter Sunday, Pastor Kelly explores the example Jesus sets in His death as the way to live our lives for Him.
On this Palm Sunday, Pastor Kelly continues our series in Matthew and outlines the example Jesus gave us in his prayer life and challenges us to pray like Jesus prayed.
Pastor Kelly continues our series in Matthew detailing the suffering of Jesus and how we can pull from His life and suffering as a guide to walk with Jesus closer.
As we continue in our Gospel of Matthew series, Jesus: Making His Story Our Story, Elder Joshua Stephenson teaches what it means to heed the warnings Jesus gives us in Matthew 25.
We continue our deep dive into the life and words of Jesus recorded in Matthew. This week, Pastor Kelly gives some hard truth as he addresses conflict, relationships, judgements, and even current events through the lens of what Jesus taught in Matthew.
We are in the thick of our Gospel of Matthew series entitled, "Jesus: Making His Story, Our Story". This week, Pastor Kelly does a deep dive into what Jesus had to say about the spiritual practice of fasting [as written in Matthew] and implores all of us to engage in fasting for the next few weeks prior to Resurrection Sunday.
Vanguard celebrates it's 25th anniversary as a church and Pastor Kelly gives a heart-felt message on this cost of being faithful to God's call on our lives.