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 mental health during COVID-19.

Books Dr. Pierre mentioned:
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith L. Herman

All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care by Kenneth R. Mitchell and Herbert Anderson

To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue

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 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.

During the last 8 minutes of the conversation, Jared leads us in a prayer of examen that you can use in your own spiritual rhythms.

Note: We’re re-posting this to address an issue with the audio.

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 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.

“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.