Evanston Vineyard

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 […]

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

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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

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 […]

“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

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

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

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

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

Ted Kim begins our series in 1Peter.

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