This podcast is a ministry of Evergreen Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Beaverton, Oregon. For more information on Evergreen Presbyterian Church visit our website at evergreenpca.com. If you are in the Beaverton area, join us for worship on Sunday mornings at 9:30am.
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Every week Beaverton editor-in-chief Luke Gordon Field assembles an all-star Panel of comedians to talk, mock and riff their way through the news of the week. Then he puts their knowledge of the news to the test in a very important quiz where the stakes couldn't be lower. The Beaverton Weekly Report is a hilarious look at what's going on in the world around us. It's just like watching CNN, only funnier and with fewer erectile dysfunction ads.
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Episode 19: The Fall of Jerusalem and Matthew 23:37-24:35
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1:16:10Today Adam and Matthew discuss more material that was left out of Sunday's sermon. This material relates to the historical narrative around what exactly happened to the city of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD. What is it about the fall of the temple to the Zealots, and of the city to the Roman General Titus, that makes these events as a whole a g…
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Episode 18: Evangelism and Our Identity in Christ (Interview w/ Benjamin Flores)
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56:10On this episode, Adam and Matthew interview Benjamin Flores, who is a member of Evergreen. Benjamin has a deep passion to see average church members realize their own calling to be faithful and speak of Jesus. It is tempting to believe that evangelism can and should really only be done by church officers, but Benjamin is eager to help all members t…
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Episode 17: Technology Is Changing Us
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1:14:23Technology inevitably has an impact on the way we think and relate to others. Decades into our own experiments with computers and the internet, researchers have begun to gather data on what that technology is doing to us. Anecdotally, we know that the internet is changing how we relate, how we speak, and how we work. As Christians, then, what are w…
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Episode 16: Seminary: What It Can... and Can't Do
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58:52On this episode, Adam and Matthew welcome a former classmate and admissions director from seminary, Step Morgan, to take part in a conversation about the benefits and limitations of a seminary education.
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Episode 15: The Self - Modern Ideas vs The Bible
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43:15Adam and Matthew are joined by Travis Koch as they dip their toes into a discussion of modern confusion over personal identity. They contrast more popular notions of identity with what the Bible has to say.
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Adam and Matthew welcome Erik Haralson, Micah Meeuwsen, and Travis Koch to discuss family worship. The group conversation today allows an opportunity for us to check in with a variety of men from a variety of familes to ask the question: how do you do family worship? What does it look like in your homes? What would you say to someone who feels they…
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Episode 13: Christian Liberty and Things Indifferent
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1:02:28Episode 13 is a full table! Adam and Matthew welcome two guests: Travis Koch and Micah Meeuwsen. Today's episode is a follow-up to this past week's sermon by Pastor Parker on Matthew 15:1-20 ("True Defilement"). In this round-table conversation the crew further discuss the subject of the Christian conscience and what is really meant by "Christian L…
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Episode 12: Travis Koch Talks Classical Christian Education
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1:12:00Today Adam and Matthew invite Headmaster Travis Koch to the podcast to talk about St. Stephen’s Academy and Classical Christian Education in general. Interesting conversation ensues ranging from the history of St. Stephen’s all the way to the purpose of education and the place of Artificial Intelligence in education.…
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Episode 11: Alex Chung Talks Christians and Cinema
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56:58Alex Chung joins us to discuss Christians and the cinematic arts. Adam takes the opportunity to nerd out quite a bit on a favorite hobby. The discussion ranges from Christian movies, to whether time travel movies are really about regret or the need to atone. Alex is an assistant professor of cinematic arts at George Fox University. He has degrees f…
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Episode 10: Bully Pulpit - Confronting The Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church
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32:21In this episode, Adam gives the low-down on Michael Kruger's latest book Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church. What is spiritual abuse? How can churches avoid having bully pastors? https://amzn.to/3WQZPckAutor: Evergreen Presbyterian Church
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Adam and Matthew discuss the overall educational ministries at Evergreen and the biblical motivations we have for doing education outside of the regular worship services of the church. Is there biblical justification for something like Sunday School? Why do we give men instruction apart from the women, or "age segregate" the church for some specifi…
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Episode 8: Book Discussion: The Genesis of Gender
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1:26:32On this episode, Adam gives an overview of the book The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale, and offers some reflections on lessons the book may have for the church today. Note: This episode has some discussion that relates to physical characteristics of sex - nothing obscene, but perhaps more explicit than you might be comfortable with small child…
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What is "revival"? Is there a healthy way of thinking about revival that can be discerned from Scripture or from church history? How should we think about modern claims that revivals are taking place? Adam and Matthew are joined by David Hopkins once again to discuss these timely issues.
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Episode 6: Interviewing David Hopkins
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29:01This week, Matthew and Adam interview Evergreen's Associate Pastor Emeritus, David Hopkins. David shares about his call to become a missionary, his history with Evergreen, and we discuss his adventures in the Alaskan wilderness among other things.
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Episode 5: History of Worship in the Church
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28:11Adam and Matthew discuss the subject of worship from the perspective of church history. Why should we care how Christians worshipped 500 years ago? 1000 years ago? 1900 years ago? How did we get some of the traditions and patterns that we've inherited, and where did they come from?
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Episode 4: What to Think About
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1:01:45Adam and Matthew discuss practical ways that we, as Christians, can develop habits of filling our minds and hearts with things that are honorable, just, pure, and lovely as Paul commands us in Phil. 4:8?
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Episode 2: Sacraments Questions & Answers
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46:26After our recent sermon series on the Sacraments, Matthew and Pastor Adam tackle some of the questions that we've received from congregants on the subject of the sacraments. "Isn't Colossians 2:11-12 really about baptism by the Spirit, not actual physical baptism? It seems like the connection in this passage between circumcision and baptism is way …
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For the inaugural episode of the Evergreen Beaverton Podcast, Adam and Matthew discuss their own journeys to faith in Christ and share about how they came to be Presbyterians in the first place. For more information on Evergreen Presbyterian Church, visit our website, evergreenpca.com.
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November 28, 2018: Doug Ford demands Green Party apologize for letting Oshawa GM Plant close
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51:40Luke and the Panel (Andrew Ivimey, Jon Blair, Todd Van Allen) talk about people getting screwed over! Specifically the people of Oshawa getting screwed over by GM (1:00), Paul Manafort maybe getting screwed over by Julian Assange by way of Robert Mueller (18:30) and refugees/human rights/Mexican sovereignty getting screwed over by the Trump admin (…
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November 21, 2018: St. Michael's principal promises to restore school to acceptable levels of toxic masculinity
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1:03:45Luke and the Panel (Callum Wratten, Dave Barclay and Ryan Dillon) figure out what is wrong with the NDP, the Conservatives and Canada's private school system! They also discuss the Ontario PC's war on trans people and the french community, and of course the latest in Trumpworld. Then the approximately 10 minute long quiz finds the best way to win a…
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November 8, 2018: The Beaverton will pay whatever it takes to not see Tony Clement's dick
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1:00:23Luke and the Panel (Michael Balazo, Kristy LaPointe and Ian MacIntyre) try not to get overwhelmed by how much news there is. They start by recapping the midterm elections and CNN's coverage (1:45), then move on to Trump firing everyone's favourite racist elf in Jeff Sessions (32:00) and Tony Clement's Unsexy Sexy Scandal (39:30). Then the Approxima…
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October 31, 2018: New CBC article ranks top 5 murderous dictatorships that can help grow your RSP
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57:59Luke and the Panel (Dave Atkinson, Aaron Hagey-MacKay and Andrew Ivimey) refuse to let the news get them down. They talk Trump’s influence over the mail bomber (2:30) and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter (11:30), plus his attempt to use an executive order to eliminate the 14th amendment (17:00) while one of his fans plotted to bring down the Muelle…
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October 24, 2018: Analysts not sure rebate cheques and keeping humanity alive will convince Canadians to support carbon tax
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52:02Luke and the Panel (Alex Huntley, Alice Moran, Diana McCallum) talk elections! The Canadian municipal elections went mostly as expected with Tory being re-elected (1:30), but also contained some highs: goodbye Mammoliti and @norm and some lows: Patrick Brown is mayor of Brampton, a Nazi finished third in Toronto?! (6:00). Meanwhile at Queen's Park …
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October 17, 2018: Local man willing to do anything that doesn't affect his daily life to stop climate change
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1:00:34Luke and the Panel (Rebecca Reeds, Craig Fay and Andrew Ivimey) ask the important question: you ever listen to a podcast ON WEED? They talk the media hype over weed legalization (2:00), the vastly different rules/regulations governing legal weed in different provinces and cities (7:30) and shed a tear for the plight of the local weed dealers we all…
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October 10, 2018: Doug Ford ends opposition to Carbon Tax after reading all 2,500 pages of UN Climate Change Report
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47:09Luke and the Panel (Nour Hadidi, Courtney Gilmour and Ryan Dillon) talk about how we're all going to die! They break down why the most recent UN Climate Change Report is a warning that can't be ignored (2:00), but will be (12:00). They also discuss why the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh did not prevent his assent to the Supreme …
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October 3, 2018: Conservatives: 'If we had re-negotiated NAFTA we would have capitulated immediately but also gotten Canada everything we wanted'
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1:00:33Luke and the Panel (Jocelyn Geddie, Dave Barclay, Jen MacIntyre) make jokes about complicated international trade agreements! They break down why 'USMCA' is a terrible acronym (1:30), the Conservatives suddenly pretending they wanted to play hardball with Donald Trump (9:30) and marvel at how the left have become the champions of free trade (15:30)…
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September 26, 2018: Justin Trudeau campaigns for Security Council seat by wearing traditional United Nations outfit
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59:56Luke and the Panel (Miguel Rivas, Alessandra Vite and Callum Wratten) are excited to talk about the news and do fun Australian accents. They do a deep dive into the Brett Kavanaugh scandal, recapping the twitter storm when Ronan Farrow dropped the story of the second accuser (3:30), the insanity of the "I'm a virgin" defence (11:00), how Republican…
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September 19, 2018: Sexual predators about to be most represented minority group on U.S. Supreme Court
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1:01:04Luke and the Panel (Craig Fay, Diana McCallum, Aaron Hagey-MacKay) have no shortage of ridiculous stories to discuss this week. They get into the fact that People's Party of Canada sounds like the name of a communist country (2:30), debate whether Bernier has a shot of pulling in Liberal and NDP voters (12:00), talk about little Dougie Ford and the…
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September 12, 2018: 'Doug is doing the right thing' says man who would lose his shit if Trudeau invoked the Notwithstanding Clause
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1:01:22Our award winning* podcast returns! Luke explains the reason for the longer than expected hiatus and updates everyone on what's been going on these past 10 months. Then he and the Panel (Kat Angus, Andrew Ivimey, Ian MacIntyre) kick off season 2 with an all time great episode. They discuss Doug Ford's bombshell announcement that he will invoke the …
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