Evanston Vineyard

Learning to Hear God’s Voice

Balm of Gilead

How Jesus helps us overcome the painful side of life.

Coping With Covid: Pam Larkin

Our guest for tonight’s Coping with COVID class is Pam Larkin, LCPC. Pam is a clinical therapist in Chicago with a background in community mental health. She is one of the cofounders of Color-Full: a group of women of color who fully embrace our Christian and cultural identities. Pam attends The Neighborhood Campus is a part of the leadership team there. Renee Cunningham will interview Pam about peer and family relationships in a COVID world. They will talk about building healthy relationships a...

A Lifetime of God Stories

Cindy Nicholson looks back over a lifetime of experiencing a life lived well to capture stories of God bringing life that has been grace-filled, peaceful and joyful in the midst of difficulties and challenges.

Coping With Covid: Michael + Brenda Gatlin

Today we’re bringing you the first of two Coping with COVID conversations from the last two weeks, a conversation between Ted Kim and Brenda and Michael Gatlin, pastors of the Duluth Vineyard in Minnesota. In addition to leading a large, vibrant church, Brenda is the Regional Leader for the Vineyard in our region, the Midwest North. Her husband, Michael, leads Multiply Vineyard, the national church planting arm of our association of churches.

Coping With Covid: Bill + Cheryll Hanawalt

Today’s guests will need no introduction to longtime Evanston Vineyard members — they are Bill and Cheryll Hanawalt, part of the founding team of the Evanston Vineyard. Bill served as the Executive Pastor of the Evanston Vineyard and Cheryll pastored in the areas of counseling, global connections and women’s ministry. Last summer, they retired after 40-plus years of service.

A Different Story with Jesus

Death tries to tell us all sorts of doomed stories. Jesus came so that we might have life. Life with Jesus is about flourishing through formation! Formation requires us to show up, clean house and keep going. -Renée Cunningham

We Are What We Love

How do we lay hold of the Life Worth Living? The Greatest Commandment: Love the Lord your God. Jesus knows that our lives are ruled by our loves and desires. Order and direct them rightly and we will flourish. Ted Kim tells us how we can do that.

Coping With COVID: Gary Dawkins

On this week’s Coping With COVID podcast, Ted Kim is joined by Pastor Gary Dawkins of the Syracuse Vineyard for a discussion on systemic racism. To learn more about the Coping With COVID class, visit vcce.org/coping.

The Good Life

Life with Jesus is the height of human flourishing. It’s the treasure that the man found in the field. It’s life to the full, as Jesus tells us in John 10:10. In short, it’s the good life. What is the substance of this good life? Ted Kim tells us, through the lens of the Apostle Paul in Romans 14:17

Letting Go, Moving Ahead

All through the Bible and in the lives of men and women following Jesus all through history, the response to a call from Jesus to follow him always comes with a decision point: to say yes to the new thing, we have to let go of some pieces of our life that we value for comfort, identity or status because they will weigh us down. As Cindy prepares to retire in August, she reflects on both scripture and her own life to illustrate both the real cost involved and the real gain.

Coping With COVID: Sharon Bryant

This summer, Ted Kim and others are hosting a series of conversations called COPING WITH COVID on Tuesday nights at 8:00pm. Learn more and register at vcce.org/coping . Today we’re sharing a conversation Renée Cunningham had with Sharon Bryant, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Spring Tree Counseling in Evanston. They talked about raising small children during COVID-19....

Thriving Under Pressure

Steve Nicholson- When we are faced with pressure will we grow anxious or cast our concerns upon Him?

Coping with COVID: Dr. Elizabeth Pierre

This summer, Ted Kim is hosting a series of conversations called COPING WITH COVID on Tuesday nights at 8:00pm. Learn more and register at vcce.org/coping. We’ll be releasing each of these conversations on our podcast feed through the summer. Today we’re sharing a conversation Ted had with Doctor Elizabeth Pierre, assistant professor of pastoral care and counseling, and counseling psychology at north park university, and a part of our Evanston Vineyard family. They talked about caring for your m...

Do not be Surprised

Suffering because of your love and commitment to Jesus is expected at some point in the life of a Christian. We are called to rejoice in those experiences. Renee unpacks how joy and hope might be found in the midst of suffering as we do what Jesus does.

Coping with COVID: Jared Boyd

This summer, Ted Kim is hosting a series of conversations called COPING WITH COVID on Tuesday nights at 8:00pm. You can learn more and register at vcce.org/coping. We’ll be releasing each of these conversations on our podcast feed through the summer. Today we’re sharing a conversation Ted had with Jared Boyd, a pastor and founder of the Order of Common Life. They talked about what it means to choose the way of Jesus during this pandemic, and how that can lead to a surprising place of flourishing...

What’s Wrong With Us?

Today we’re sharing a message Pastor Geno Olison recently gave at the South Suburban Vineyard.

The Song in Jesus’ Heart: “Black Lives Matter”

In this moment in time, we want to be a church that is singing a song of repentance, a song of protest, a song of justice, and a song of welcome. Ted Kim invites us to reckon with how we as individuals and the big-c Church itself have been complicit in white supremacy, and to make new choices. This week we are including the song after the message sung by Bruce Cunningham and written by Ted Kim, as well as a corporate prayer we led earlier in the service led by Adama Diakhaté....

How Will You Live?

“The end of all things is near. How will we live? Peter tells us in 4:1-11 to live rightly ordered lives, with the will of God at the center.” Preacher: Ted Kim

How to be a Light in the Darkness

Steve Nicholson on the best way to glorify God in difficult times.

Citizens on Assignment

Renée Cunningham- There is purpose to our existence as followers of Jesus within the world. When we embody that purpose, God becomes visible.

Jesus the Cornerstone

Ted Kim continues our series in 1 Peter, looking at 2:4-10

Be Holy Now

Challenging circumstances do not withdraw God’s instruction to us, pause our healing, or suspend our formation.Be holy here. Be holy now.

Scattered Exiles

Ted Kim begins our series in 1Peter.

Easter

Luke has insight about the resurrection for us today.

Easter

Luke has insight about the resurrection for us today.

Palm Sunday

Ted Kim looks at John 12 and the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.

Some Things Haven't Changed

Renée Cunningham reminds us of things that haven't changed.

Keys to Peace in Troubled Times

Steve Nicholson- How we can rejoice with courage and hope in the face of the pandemic COVID-19. Text: Philippians 4:4–7

Keys to Peace in Troubled Times

Steve Nicholson- How we can rejoice with courage and hope in the face of the pandemic COVID-19. Text: Philippians 4:4–7