Unpacked Podcast

This week on Unpacked is part 2 where Pastor Evan chats with Pastor Rob Peterson, Associate Superintendent with Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada and Director of Spiritual Direction at North Park Seminary. Pastor Rob is Evan’s mentor and good friend. They discuss caring for the soul, working together, loneliness in leading, the difference between pastor and leader and the greatest gifts of han...

This week on Unpacked Pastor Evan chats with Pastor Rob Peterson, Associate Superintendent with Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada and Director of Spiritual Direction at North Park Seminary. Pastor Rob is Evan’s mentor and good friend. They discuss caring for the soul, working together, insecurities in leading, church planting and the greatest gifts of hanging out with God’s people. Unpacked is...

This week on Unpacked, Pastor Evan discusses the emotion of sadness. He shares a bit about how the enneagram, which is a personality tool to help us understand ourselves better. Pastor Evan shares how sadness is meant to draw our attention to something important, to slow us down and reveal what we value. Ultimately, when we face our sadness with the help of community and God we can move towards he...

This week on Unpacked, Pastor Evan is chatting with Collin Daws. Collin is the Associate Director at Camp Chestermere, he’s a local teacher, dad and has recently joined us one of our worship leaders. They discuss worship. We share a bit about how we define worship, what is means to be vulnerable with God and in worship and what worship has been like in the pandemic. Collin shares parts of his own...

This week on Unpacked, Pastor Evan discusses the emotion of anger. He talks about how anger can reveal our values and even creates energy. Pastor Evan shares about how anger can be impacting our lives and the unhealthy ways we express it and then some of the ways we can move through anger towards healing. Unpacked is a series of interviews and conversations with spiritual directors, counsellors, s...

This week on Unpacked, Pastor Evan chats with Maureen Speidel, local psychologist and one of our absolute favourite people. They discuss addiction. Sharing a bit about what is an addiction, addictive behaviours, the brain and how we can mine for the truth in our interior life and begin to heal with the help of God and others. Unpacked is a series of interviews and conversations with spiritual dire...

This week on Unpacked, Pastor Evan dives into the topic of fear. He shares a bit about what he’s been reading on fear and talks about how fear works in us, what it could be telling us and the practice of reflecting on our fear to understand the truth that it reveals to us. And how we can begin to face our fears with the help of God and others. What if your fear is information? What is if you fear...

This week, we’re kicking off the start of a new series Unpacked with Pastor Evan. This is short podcast is a teaser for what’s to come. Pastor Evan shares about what it is like to bear witness to pain, our own and others. The discussion comes from our zoom call after church on Sunday morning. Unpacked is a series of interviews and conversations with spiritual directors, counsellors, storytelling a...