How Jesus helps us overcome the painful side of life.

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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. […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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