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Evergreen Podcast
by Keith J. Foisy
You are listening to the message series of Evergreen Covenant Church in Branch, MI.
Episodes
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Exodus 3:13-15 "Names of God"
Message: Exodus 3:13-15 "Names of God" God revealed his sacred, divine Name to Moses and the Israelites as He called them to follow Him into the wilderness. This is the Name everyone was careful not to speak in vain. God is known by many other Names as well, which reveal His nature and Who is is...
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2 Peter 3:8-9 “Sayings of Saints: Mary of Egypt”
Message: 2 Peter 3:8-9 “Sayings of Saints: Mary of Egypt” “Blessed is God who cares for the salvation of all Souls” In this message we’ll look at God’s heart for all humanity. God does not like how our sin destroys one another, but He love us endlessly. We can cultivate our attitudes to be the…
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Psalm 42:1-8 “Sayings of Saints: Augustine of Hippo”
Message: Psalm 42:1-8 “Sayings of Saints: Augustine of Hippo” “Our heart is restless until it finds its rest in You” We are often unsatisfied in life because we are looking for life in all the wrong places, or we are needing life to be some certain way. The cure for finding fullness of life is to...
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Romans 8:12-17 “Sayings of Saints: St. Benedict”
Message: Romans 8:12-17 “Sayings of Saints: St. Benedict” St. Benedict encourages us to “Listen and attend with the ear of your Heart” We are often searching outside ourselves for God’s wisdom and direction. But God is often speaking to us in a more personal, inner way. He shows up in many ways...
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Psalm 139:1-12 “Sayings of Saints: Amma Theodora”
Message: Psalm 139:1-12 “Sayings of Saints: Amma Theodora” Amma Theodora tells the story of a monk who thought if he left his monastery he would leave all his troubles and struggles behind, but he discovers this is not the case. There was something he was not considering. Amma Theodora’s word to…
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Luke 5:15-16 “Sayings of Saints: Abba Moses”
Message: Luke 5:15-16 “Sayings of Saints: Abba Moses” As we begin this new series, “Sayings of Saints”, we start off with the Desert Father Abba Moses, who lived in Egypt between 330AD – 405AD. Abba Moses instructs followers of Jesus saying, “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you...
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Genesis 50:15-21 “God’s Hidden Hand”
Message: Genesis 50:15-21 “God’s Hidden Hand” In this final message from our Genesis series we’re encouraged to let God be God. Since we don’t have to play God, we don’t need to teach anyone any lessons or put anyone in their place. We can also trust that God’s Hidden Hand is at work redeeming…
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Genesis 48:12-20 “Less is More”
Message: Genesis 48:12-20 “Less is More” Time and again in Scripture we see God lift up and even favor the unlikely and those who otherwise would have no position or status in society. There is little he can do for those who only seek their own benefit and advancement. But those who were at a...
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Genesis 47:1-12 “Seasons of Life"
Message: Genesis 47:1-12 “Seasons of Life" After discovering that Joseph is alive and ruling under Pharoah in Egypt, Jacob moves the whole family to this foreign land to survive the famine. Little do they know this move will last 400yrs for his descendants. But like other seasons of his life…
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Genesis 37:1-11 “Dreams and Where they Lead Us”
Message: Genesis 37:1-11 “Dreams and Where they Lead Us” Joseph has his dream of his brothers and parents bowing down to him and they resent him. The fact that Joseph had a special coat given to him by his father means Jacob had big dreams for him. When Joseph receives the dream telling him that...
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Genesis 35:1-15 “Looking Back, Moving Forward”
Message: Genesis 35:1-15 “Looking Back, Moving Forward” After Jacob returns home, he makes it a point to return to Bethel, where he first encountered God. There he looks back over his life journey and remembers how God has faithfully brought him through. This gives him the courage to move forward...
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Luke 15 (the Prodigal Son)
Scripture passage: Luke 15 (the ProdigalSon) This Independence Day weekend, we will look at the story of two brothers… both of whom were more interested in the inheritance of the father more than a relationship with him. Maybe you identify with the prodigal… the one who wandered off, the one who...
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Genesis 32:22-31 “Wrestles with God”
Message: Genesis 32:22-31 “Wrestles with God” In this passage, Jacob wrestles with a stranger through the darkness of the night. The struggle ends up being a blessing, though he’ll always walk with a limp. Our lives too can be characterized as a struggle through a dark night, but also a wrestling...
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Genesis 28:10-22 “The House of God”
Message: Genesis 28:10-22 “The House of God” While Jacob is on a long journey, he makes a startling discovery. He has an encounter with God and believes himself to have found The House of God, the place where Heaven and Earth overlap. But the real revelation is much deeper than that. The House of...
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Matthew 4:18-22 “Called”
Message: Matthew 4:18-22 “Called” This Father’s Day we are also celebrating the completion and graduating Discipleship/Confirmation Class. In this message we will look at Jesus’ calling of his first disciples and how He calls each of us to leave behind something else and follow Him.
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John 16:5-16 “Intertwined”
Message: John 16:5-16 “Intertwined” On this Trinity Sunday we’ll talk about how God exists in eternal relationship. God is not some distant, detached being, but is eternally personal and engaged. From the Love of the Trinity overflows the outpouring of humanity. Human beings are by nature...
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Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7“Birthing and Co-Creation”
Message: Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7“Birthing and Co-Creation” In this message, we will talk about how each of us is called to birth the divine vision in and through our lives. In this way, we are ‘co-creators’ with God. This birthing includes our own spiritual formation and the personal ministry God does...
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Duet 5:15, Luke 5:15 “Remembering Rightly”
Message: Duet 5:15, Luke 5:15 “Remembering Rightly” In this message, we take a look at what it means to Remember Rightly. There is a Redemptive way of Remembering, that looks not only at the hurt we’ve suffered, but at the Restoration God brought and brings about for us.
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Luke 1:39-56 “Birthing the Holy: Incubation”
Message: Luke 1:39-56 “Birthing the Holy: Incubation” After the Annunciation came the Incubation period, where God’s Call on Mary’s life began to form within her. In the same way, so much of our life is actually the development of God’s Call on our lives maturing within and through us.
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“Birthing the Holy” (Part 2) Luke 1:26-38
Message: “Birthing the Holy” (Part 1) Luke 1:26-38 This Mother’s Day we begin a two part series, learning from Mary’s relationship with God. In this first part, we’ll be looking at Mary’s acceptance of God’s call and the work God was doing inside of her. Her life is a pattern for the life we’re...
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Mark 16:1-8 “Becoming Human Again”
Message: Mark 16:1-8 “Becoming Human Again” On this third Sunday of Easter we reflect on the significance of Christ becoming human and what Jesus’ fully human experience means for our fully human experience.
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Luke 24:13-35 “Tombs to Talks”
Message: Luke 24:13-35 “Tombs to Talks” On this second Sunday of Easter, we look at the place of the Empty Tomb in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Talk on the Road to Emmaus. The tomb is found empty and soon after Jesus appears to two disciples on a road going toward the village…
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John 12: 12-19 “Palms”
Message: John 12: 12-19 “Palms” On this Palm Sunday, Jesus makes a grand entrance as he comes riding into Jerusalem. His entrance is filled with meaning and understood properly, it is at odds with what the crowd wanted and expected. Even the disciples didn't understand the implications until…
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The Book of Esther: More Than a Story: Esther
More Than aStory: Esther Text: The Book of Esther Main idea: God is always writing a story in this world… often in unseen and unlikely ways. We join His greater story as we courageously live into the role he has written for us with integrity and grace.
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The Book of Ruth: More Than a Story: Ruth
More Than a Story: Ruth Text: The Book of Ruth Main idea: The story of Ruth is the story of ALL of God’s people. It speaks to an extravagant and beautiful redemption that invites those who are far away to join the story of God’s family.
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