Browse published episodes from Pastor Josh Friend in Sermons from Evergreen Community Church.
Apr 29, 2018 4:00 AM America/Edmonton
When the storms of life are raging, we want Jesus to stand near us. The early church struggled with a Jesus who seemed to be gone. Mark reminds us that Jesus' authority extends to creation. He is Lord of the Impossible.
Apr 15, 2018 4:55 AM America/Edmonton
Mark 4 starts with a sandwich parable: a parable told, a key given, then the parable explained. This is the most important parable. One about hearing, AND doing.
Apr 8, 2018 4:55 AM America/Edmonton
What does the week after Easter feel like? The disciples and Early Christian church struggled with being assured of the risen Jesus. The ending of Mark's Gospel is controversial sometimes. We explore the longer ending the week after Easter.
Apr 1, 2018 4:55 AM America/Edmonton
On Easter Sunday, we celebrate, but only in context. We can only experience joy in obedience and true joy comes only when we have understood misery. Thanks to the late, Dr. Fred Craddock, who helped me to understand Easter.
Mar 25, 2018 4:55 AM America/Edmonton
On Palm Sunday we look at the strange request that Jesus makes- to serve him in a unique way. We continue to look at the Christian Job Description and learn the service is more about whose we are, and not what we do.
Mar 18, 2018 4:55 AM America/Edmonton
We continue looking at the spiritual disciplines from Foster's, The Celebration of Disciplines. This week: simplicity, the first of the outward disciplines.
Mar 4, 2018 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
Week three of Lent we continue to look at the actions of the Christian. This week, we find in fact that fasting is feasting!
Feb 18, 2018 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
Isn't meditation something for the Eastern religions? Our first week of Lent starts with Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline as we look at Psalm 1 and how all Christians should meditate.
Feb 11, 2018 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
We continue into our looking into Mark and how Jesus felt opposition from every side. Whether the crowds around him, his own family or the intellects of the day, Jesus continues to prove that he is Lord of all.
Feb 4, 2018 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
Jesus wants his status to remain a mystery, but why? We explore options in this weeks, The Secret Jesus.
Jan 28, 2018 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
Continuing in our series in Mark. Jesus proves himself the Lord of Scripture and the Law- he is Lord of the Sabbath.
Jan 21, 2018 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
As we celebrate communion and the profession of faith of two of our teens, the Jesus in Mark 2 is a new and wonderful wine which bursts through old wineskins. Jesus blood, signified in communion wine, is the inclusive, forgiving wine of grace. in Jesus, t
Jan 14, 2018 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
After last week and looking at the immediacy of Jesus ministry, we look at how sometimes the answer to prayer is waiting. Sometimes, its digging. What are you willing to wait for? What are you willing to dig for?
Jan 7, 2018 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
We discover a pattern: Jesus encounters something broken and demonstrates his lordship over it. Mark is the immediate gospel, but we don't all see ourselves changed immediately, or do we?
Dec 31, 2017 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
At the end of a year and the beginning of another one, we turn to Mark and the beginning and end of the story of Jesus. Mark 1 begins with the initiation of Jesus' ministry, but it also is tied to the end as well, Mark 15, when Christ is on the cross.
Dec 25, 2017 4:55 AM America/Edmonton
Our Christmas Day message from Luke 2:25-35. Simeon continues to show us that even people who experience doubt can be used by God to assure even the parents of Jesus. Hidden Christmas has been all about unbelievable stories from unlikely people, with unli
Dec 24, 2017 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
(Preached at Faith Presbyterian Church) The fourth week of our Advent series, Hidden Christmas, includes the faith of the shepherds. How they may have been solitary creatures, they were not overlooked in playing the role of encouragers to Mary. The shephe
Dec 17, 2017 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
This third Sunday of Advent we explore family, especially the women within the line of Jesus. We discover that there is something about Mary that is special and that Jesus comes to bring completion to the lives of those who include him in their story.
Dec 3, 2017 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
Our first instalment of our Advent series, Hidden Christmas, centres on hope and light in the darkness. From Isaiah 9:2-7
Nov 26, 2017 3:00 AM America/Edmonton
We continue our series on the gospel of the head, the heart and the hands. Going through the middle of Ephesians, we find that Paul is saying that all of ourselves need to be changed.
Nov 19, 2017 3:55 AM America/Edmonton
We continue our series on the gospel of the head, the heart and the hands. Going through the middle of Ephesians, we find that Paul is saying that all of ourselves need to be changed.
Nov 12, 2017 3:35 AM America/Edmonton
We explore what 'truth' means and how the mystery that was to the Gentile believers in Ephesus is now become knowledge to them. We can know truth as we come to know Christ.
Nov 5, 2017 6:14 AM America/Edmonton
We look to the call of Jesus to discover how and why the disciples were called and discover that God's call to each of us is personal and direct.
Oct 29, 2017 7:06 AM America/Edmonton
We look at the character of Onesimus this week and how through him and this little letter, we discover our purpose in Christ.