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In our series "Culture of Honor," we look at elements of belief and practice that contribute to relational health in our lives from a biblical framework.

Last week we taught an overview on The Culture of Honor. This week, we take it a bit deeper and see how it is built in a culture and through community.

A key to building towards a church in revival and sustaining a move of God is a Culture of Honor. How do we lean in to a culture that is safe and empowering, where we give room at the table to value others in grace?

God. Is. Faithful. Where men may be unreliable and fail you time and again, there is a stark contrast between the consistency of God’s faithfulness. When walking with Jesus, we get to lean on the Lord, trust him, and obey with full hearts.

Pastor Tommy spends the morning discussing what our church's mission and vision is and how we can be a part of dreaming together - in LA and discipling nations!

This week's podcast is a discussion on purpose and calling living in Los Angeles and the various difficulties many face living in their greater purpose living here.

Pastor Tommy lays the foundation and center of it all... "A Heart that is Fully in Love" is a heart that can overflow. A heart that is fully in love is a man who can step out in boldness and great faith. A heart that is fully in love is a person who isn’t taken out by the opinions of men. A heart that is fully in love is a soul who can now BUILD WITH JESUS from a healthy, happy, joy-filled posture.  Because Love COMPELS us. It is the great motivator. It moves us from religious duty of “I have to” to “I GET TO.”

In this week's Easter message, "Lives that Demonstrate Resurrection Power," Pastor Tommy Martinsen shares the importance of the cross and resurrection of Jesus and how these events change the entirety of how we live and see all of life.

In this week's message, Pastor Tommy brings us into the story of Palm Sunday, as we see Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem see the impact of His Kingship transforming our lives.

What happens when the doors don’t immediately open? How much do you pursue vs. let the favor fall in your lap? How do we deal with comparison and a desire for shortcuts to success? What does healthy promotion look like vs. an unhealthy self-promotion? When we don’t get our way or what we think is the best roadmap to success, what do we do with that?   We'll be discussing all of these questions in this week's Sermon of the Week!

In this episode, Bryan Seefried and Tommy Martinsen discuss wisdom from Proverbs surrounding the topic of finances and kingdom-focused work.

This teaching is all about God being a Refiner's Fire in our lives, what we do with hardship, and how the Holy Spirit also moves within us with holy fire, that compels us into bold faith and power.

From our series: Purpose & Passion: Fueling Individual and Community Vision, Pastor Tommy addresses the main hindrances from fulfilling your destiny.

In this episode, Bryan Seefried and Tommy Martinsen discuss wisdom from Proverbs surrounding the topic of lust, sexuality, and how to approach it as a follower of Jesus.

The most important thing in fulfilling your calling is to be led by the Spirit. Many Christians don't know how to follow the leading of God, but in this message Pastor Tommy looks at ways to identify how God is speaking and moving, in order to better follow His leadership.

Larah Seefried joins Tommy Martinsen to discuss a biblical response to receiving and giving correction well. Who should we be receiving correction from? How will correction feel? Is it ok if it hurts a little? What is a good culture of humility?

Pastor Tommy brings us deeper in the topic of our purpose, as we lay a foundation of the WHYS of our specific calling -- Why is it important to KNOW your calling? And why is it important to LIVE in your calling?

As part of our "Purpose & Passion" series, Pastor Tommy brings us into a discussion on calling, where we discover our general calling and specific calling.

Week 1 of our Greenhouse Homegroups Series // Unveiling Wisdom and Discernment: Navigating Life's Difficulties // This week we talk how to approach anxiety with God's wisdom.

The Holy Spirit is invisible – but the way that we “see” God is how he demonstrates himself by what He does. The ways that God shows up are the ways that he confirms the truth of who He is and the confirmation of the Gospel message.  Pastor Tommy teaches a short message followed by a gospel presentation by Bryce Crawford.

Pastor Tommy bring us deeper in our series "Purpose & Passion," revealing what the primary message of our lives is as followers of Jesus: Christ and Him Crucified. One of the main reasons we have to keep the cross at the center of our life message is that the cross releases the supernatural grace of God into every area of our lives.  The supernatural grace of God is an invitation – it brings us to the end of our own wisdom and righteousness in our own strength — to show us that our own power is absolutely inadequate in comparison to His presence and power.

In our series "Purpose & Passion: Igniting Personal and Community Vision," Pastor Tommy desires to set you on fire with the all-consuming fire and passion of Jesus, and to find vision for your own life and part of the greater church body and regional move of God – to discover what you were born for and what that looks like operating in vision-filled community with a sharpened aim and focus to bring the Kingdom of God.

Jesus is the fulfilled longing for peace we all deeply crave. The amount of revelation that we have as we BEHOLD the Son of God at Christmas, the direct result will be a flooding of that perfect peace and loving light into our hearts as we BEHOLD, TREASURE, and PONDER this glorious truth. A savior has been born. Come, see, receive.

Does your calling feels too intimidating? Maybe you feel unqualified or even disqualified to what you believe God is drawing you into...  In this message, we look at Luke 1, which gives us a look into Mary’s process of hearing some complicated, life-changing news, and what her response would be as it settled, and it serves as a model for us in our moments of doubt where we need faith ignited.

In this week's message, we look at Isaiah 9's prophetic call of a Savior who would be a dawning of a light in the middle of our darkness. He is our eternal hope.

And in an incredible way, the last paragraph of John 5, Jesus himself answers from his own mouth - answering THE QUESTION - WHY you can trust who He is. In this week's sermon, we look at 6 reasons you can trust Jesus.

How do we live in the tension of truth and mystery and maintain trust? In this week's sermon, Pastor Tommy unpacks Scripture and practical ways to engage with trusting God in the middle of uncertainty.

Jesus longs to fill your life with fresh hope and purpose when we often feel we're running dry. In this week's sermon, we look at the story of the paralytic man at the Pool of Bethesda from John 5, and how Jesus brought miraculous hope to the hopeless. Jesus is still miraculously changing lives. See how we can posture ourselves to encounter Him in hope this week.

Our attention has to be refocused on Jesus Himself and the open heavens over our lives through the Spirit of God alive in us. By abiding in Christ, remaining in Him, spending time with him – we actually let the impact of His realm, his thoughts, and his heartbeat to saturate our thought-life, belief systems, and ways of life… allowing the realm that you’re most aware of to impact the places we dwell.

Being the House of God, a temple of the Holy Spirit, is at the heart of everything we are called to be and do. You are called to be a house where his very glory dwells – where angels ascend and descend on assignment – living under and open heaven of God’s glory touching earth.

In this week's sermon, Pastor Tommy and his mom, Kathy, open up John 4, the story of the woman at the well, and we see how Jesus meets her in her shame and brings a total transformation by grace. Jesus is still meeting us at the crossroads, offering living water.

The Spirit leaps within us confirming this relational depth of connection with God the Father, forever changing the way that we live and commune with Him. When that rich, deep, consistent working of the Spirit is illuminated, our relationship with God becomes less about what we can GET from Him – and our obsession becomes more and more about BEING with Him.

This week's panel discusses a variety of important questions under the umbrella of spiritual warfare, including response to spiritual attacks, issues of sin that allow for attack, practices of drugs, new age, and the occult, and more.

One of the primary weapons God has given us in warfare is worship and praise.  The enemy clearly wants to fill our minds and hearts with darkness – but when we shift the focus of our minds and hearts with what our original design and assignment is (which is our living relationship with God Himself) we undo and expel the works of the enemy.

In this teaching, we look at the significance of Communion – what is happening during this act? How are we connecting to the power of God in this moment? And how do we implement the glory of communion into our daily lives?

Can you become so God-conscious and aware of his righteousness operating in power in you that you’re not even having to be sin-conscious! The theology of righteousness is a key to walking in victory from sin and spiritual warfare.

Todd White is a power-evangelist, living in Dallas, TX. His main life message is on identity, power, and love.

Learn how to discern spiritual atmospheres and then take authority over them to release heaven's influence. We can learn to understand what we are feeling and then understand the authority we have over it. We are called to be a THERMOSTAT, not a THERMOMETER.

If there are areas we need to help ourselves or others get free, to end the areas the enemy has a foothold, we must understand how the individual is bound or impacted by demonic activity. This is a practical message on experiencing freedom for yourself and others.

Whether you’re facing spiritual attack or demonic influence, or someone around you is, we want to help you arise in your authority as a believer. This teaching will bring a confidence when approaching various influences of darkness.

Pastor Tommy introduces teaching on Spiritual Warfare. What is it? How does it operate in our lives? What are we to be aware of? And what do we do about it?  We look at how to be positioned for victory over the enemy's works.

Pastor Tommy gives practical tools for spiritual formation and developing deeper intimacy with God. This message is a group discipleship format, filled with hands-on ways to connect with God in your daily time with Him.

What does it mean for the Word to have power? How do we relate to the Word with our spirit? In this week's sermon, it's all about the Word!

We invited a few individuals in our body who live in connection to Jesus beautifully and powerfully to speak into what this looks like in their lives, and to give wisdom of how others can connect with Jesus at a deeper level. Feat. Michelle Cole, Kathy Martinsen, Tommy Martinsen, and Joshua Willis.

Not only is the cross demonstrating God's love for us, it’s also proving our value and worth to Him. When we understand the depths of His love, it opens us to receive the invitation of greater intimacy.

In the middle of a culture that fills our time with busyness, what does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus and intentionally draw near to Him? How do we cultivate friendship with God? Pastor Tommy teaches on developing intimacy with Jesus in this message.

Finishing our series on Romans 8, we go through one of the most life-changing portions of Scripture, unveiling the power of the Gospel for real life transformation: freedom from condemnation and into the riches of God's everlasting love.

Does everything happen for a reason? Is God causing and allowing pain and suffering? When life doesn't make sense, it's easy to question the goodness of God. This week, we look at Romans 8:28, one of the greatest promises in Scripture, and we see how it relates to our lives and situations of difficulty.

Featuring stripped-down versions of "Our Father," "Yeshua," "Alpha and Omega," "Pursuit," and "Nothing Else"

Easter Sunday 2023 - When we look at life through the death and resurrection of Jesus, literally we have completely new lenses. When the truth of the resurrection becomes illuminated in our lives, it redefines everything!

Hope is a birthright of every son or daughter of God through faith in Jesus. Romans 8 gives us rich teaching of our eternal hope and how to live with greater levels of hope activated for every believer!

One question we have to ask ourselves is – If Jesus is your Lord, the Holy Spirit is IN you – you HAVE the Holy Spirit, but does the Holy Spirit HAVE YOU? Am I living a life LED by the Spirit? Pastor Tommy walks us further through Romans 8 and life in the Spirit.

As we open Romans 8, we discover hope to be both freed and ignited into the fullness of the power of the cross and resurrection power in our lives – to place us dramatically further in a position of victory.

We opened the floor to whomever would like to testify what God's been doing in their lives and to minister from their place of breakthrough.

Evergreen had the honor of hosting the Covells this Sunday. They share their story and infuse hope and calling into being in Los Angeles!

In response to the outpouring at Asbury University and other campuses and churches, we make space for God to move and to testify about the goodness of Jesus!

For those who walk with God and follow Jesus, there is something that is stirred within you and grows like a holy ache within your very core the more that you know God – this is a longing to be a man or woman that hosts the presence of God well with your life. Pastor Tommy shares his passion, and we believe you'll be stirred for "the more" of God.

There's a lot of confusion about the area of calling in our lives, and people often are in a place of great frustration because of it. This message stirs how to discern the will of God for our lives and walk in His very best for each one of us uniquely.

Pastor Richard continues our discussion of fasting by talking about the importance of heart posture throughout the fast, and practicing being led by the Spirit. He also addresses some misconceptions about the Daniel fast, and walks through his own fasting journey.

Pastor Tommy continues our series "Living with a Greater Mission" by looking at the very first missionary journey in Scripture, Acts 13 and 14. In this passage we find a "Pattern for Ministry" that powerfully prepares us in the areas God has uniquely called us to each be ministers.

Pastor Richard brings us into a discussion of the purpose and transformative power of fasting in our lives. There is a lot of confusion over this spiritual discipline, so we examine a biblical perspective on the topic and its benefits in our lives.

We kick off week 1 of our new series, "Living for a Greater Mission" by looking at Acts 11 and the how the mission of the early church remains the same -- preach the word with boldness and make disciples of all nations! Let God stir a greater purpose and passion in you through this message.

In Evergreen's Christmas Message, focusing on Luke chapter 2, Pastor Tommy unpacks the power of the Gospel found within the Christmas narrative, with many rich symbols pointing to the Lordship of Jesus.

Faith in its simplest form – is waiting on God. The main way that God transforms us is through waiting. How then do we respond and live our lives in the mystery of waiting? In this message, we look at Hebrews 11 and the faith-filled examples of Abraham and Sarah and see how this kind of faith can be activated in our own lives.

Have we got Joseph all wrong? Did we misjudge him all these years? Was Joseph really an arrogant, prideful kid who needed to be in slavery/prison for 13 years to refine his character? Or was Joseph really an innocent, righteous and obedient son who knew he was fully loved? In this sermon, pastor Richard discusses how to read the bible without a lens of judgment and the possible lessons we miss out on when we misinterpret scripture.

When God's timing feels like it's taking too long, we often ask, "When God?!" What do we do in the waiting? Can we trust His timing? This week of Advent, we lean into the Christmas story and open up a discussion of how this applies to our lives as we wait.

Have you ever approached someone you haven’t seen in a long time and automatically acted like a completely different person, wondering, "Who was that person I just became?" In this week's sermon, Pastor Richard discusses how to remove the masks, expose the imposter self and embrace a constant opportunity for transformation.

This Advent Season, we begin by looking at the life of Jesus and what his divinity and humanity mean to us and reflect on Him -- fully God and fully man.

As Evergreen's community pastor, Sarah has a heart to see our people come into greater unity, serve one another radically, and be examples to the world around us. Hear her heart of what she believes God is developing in this season.

What does it look like when the Holy Spirit is poured out in our lives and in our church meetings? How does God want to prepare us as individuals and as a church family for the move of His Presence? Pastor Tommy gives some vision to what this can look like and how we can better posture ourselves for what God is longing to do. For future reading and inspiration, check out Bill Johnson's book "Open Heavens" (positioning yourself to encounter the God of revival).