Evanston Vineyard

Ted Kim continues our summer series in Acts. PRAYER OF REPENTANCE: Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us a...

God invites us to say yes. But are you confident the Spirit will show up when you need it? Renee Cunningham explores what we can learn from Acts 3-4.

When we fast, we bring Heaven near. So as we end our month of prayer and fasting, Ted Kim explores what should we expect, and how can we continue bringing Heaven near.

Renée Cunningham looks at Acts 2:42–47 and discovers that the Holy Spirit changes everything, including you.

Steve Nicholson begins our series in the first part of Acts by exploring what it means that a new day has come first on Pentecost Sunday and continuing through today: the day in which God works in overwhelming power, the day of new life, the day of freedom and purification, and the day in which a new nation of God is formed.

This morning, our new Senior Associate Pastor, Ted Kim, talks about his vision for the future of the Evanston Vineyard.

Dave Sandell explores what it means that prayer is an affirmation of covenant, and what it would look like for us to spend this season of prayer and fasting in the traces of God’s presence.

Renee Cunningham comes with week 2 of our 3-week prayer and fasting series, as we begin a church-wide time of prayer and fasting between May 28–June 30. Learn more at vcce.org/prayerfast.

Steve Nicholson kicks off the PRAYER + FASTING series

Five chains that lock in loneliness, five actions that can break the change, and why it’s worth fighting to break the chains of loneliness.

Most everyone is lonely these days. So few of us say it. What does it look like to walk through loneliness with Jesus? Renee looks at the life and teachings of Jesus to guide us.

Bill Hanawalt begins the Uprooting Loneliness series.

Listening in on the conversations between Jesus and others lends us perspective on what it means to follow Jesus. What is required to live a complete life with Jesus? Renee Cunningham eavesdrops in on one of Jesus’ conversation and then considers what it means for our lives today.

Steve Nicholson wraps up the series “Conversations with Jesus”.

At the halfway point in Lent, we examine the framework that binds us from reaching for Jesus and responding to his invitation. We do this so we might follow him fully. Renee Cunningham explores this conversation about a conversation.

Jesus says to forgive seventy times seven. We can really only do that if we have first received forgiveness from Jesus. We want to be people who forgive others, but how? Where do we start? Brad explores the steps of forgiveness for our every day life.

Bill Hanawalt continues in the Conversations with Jesus series as we look at the conversation Jesus had with Peter in Mathew Chapter 18.

Listening in on the conversations between Jesus and others lends us perspective on what it means to follow Jesus. What is required to live a complete life with Jesus? Renee Cunningham eavesdrops in on one of Jesus’ conversation and then considers what it means for our lives today

Our 2019 Ash Wednesday service was a chance to practice some of the spiritual formation exercises we’ll be using throughout the next six weeks to get in the presence of Jesus so that He can form us into people who can follow Him to the cross on Good Friday and out of the tomb on Easter Sunday. This recording includes Phyllis Tickle’s Vespers Office for Ash Wednesday, a centering prayer, lectio div...

During Lent we can become more like Jesus by following Him to the cross so that we can follow Him out of the tomb. What needs to happen between death and resurrection? This morning we’re launching our Lent series, “Conversations with Jesus” and previewing the spiritual formation practices we want to engage with for the next six weeks.

It is absolutely possible to go all-in God and completely miss everything. Renee Cunningham looks at the missed moments in Jonah’s story to help us consider where we might be missing out on what God wants to teach us,

Daniel’s experience in the lion’s den is extraordinary. But it is not his entire life. The lion’s den is one crazy dramatic chapter that gets a lot of air time. To summarize Daniel’s life in his overnight stay in the lion’s den, dismisses the formation of his whole life. Renée explores the critical formation that happens in Daniel before the lion’s den.