Awaken Church

The greatest hope you have for the future is the hope that lives within you. Join us this week as we continue in our series on hope by speaking to the promise and the person of the Holy Spirit.Sermon passage: Joel 2:28-32 ★ Support this podcast ★

What gives you hope to change? Join us this week as we look at how repentance positions us to lean on God's character for hope to change. Sermon Passage: Joel 2:12-16 ★ Support this podcast ★

Sometimes we have to come to the end of ourselves to see that our one true hope is in the salvation of the Lord.Sermon Passage: Joel 1:1-14 ★ Support this podcast ★

Dinners with Jesus were about more than just physical nourishment, they were an invitation to receive the new life He came to give.Sermon Passage: Luke 22:7-23; John 21 ★ Support this podcast ★

What are the excuses holding you back from following Jesus? Join us as we discover how to deal with the excuses that get in the way of keeping us from receiving Jesus' invitation to practice true hospitality.Sermon Passage: Luke 14:12-24 ★ Support this podcast ★

The table is not only a place of invitation and belonging, but a place where our true selves are exposed. What does your table reveal about what you value most?Sermon Passage: Luke 11:37-44 ★ Support this podcast ★

The pressure and the pace of the world tempts us to prioritize our productivity, but in this week's dinner with Jesus, we learn that it's His presence we need most.Sermon Passage: Luke 10:38-42 ★ Support this podcast ★

What happens when we center our lives around generosity and invitations? This message teaches us how God builds his Kingdom through the power of sharing.Sermon Passage: Luke 9:10-17 ★ Support this podcast ★

In this week's dinner with Jesus, He welcomes an unexpected guest to the table, teaching us how to connect and how to show compassion towards the unexpected in our own lives.Sermon Passage: Luke 7:36-50 ★ Support this podcast ★

Throughout His life and ministry, Jesus used the power of a shared meal to invite the outsiders of this world into His Kingdom. This week, we'll learn how we're called to extend the same invite to the outsiders among us.Sermon passage: Luke 5:27-32 ★ Support this podcast ★

Our natural reaction to sexual brokenness is to hide, but God's word tells us that true freedom can only be found when we step out of hiding and into the hope of Christ. ★ Support this podcast ★

Sin has distorted our view of sex, but God's grace redefines what we're meant to worship. ★ Support this podcast ★

The world tells us to follow our hearts, but the truth in God's word says that our hearts can't be trusted. So, what are we to do? Join us for week 2 of 'Sex in a Broken World' as we seek to answer this question. ★ Support this podcast ★

If sex is truly a gift from God, why does it often bring pain and suffering? Join us for the first message in this four-week series as we dive deeper into God's word to discover His design for sex and how we can find freedom from sexual sin. ★ Support this podcast ★

Have you walked through hard times and uncertainty? Faith in Jesus means, like Daniel, we never lose our hope.Join us for our series finale as we look at the final chapter of Daniel and study how to be a people who walk with complete faith and confidence in God's plan for our lives. ★ Support this podcast ★

Do you have hope through the highs and lows of life? When we turn to God we can trust His character to forgive us and show us mercy. This weeks message examines the power of a repentant lifestyle and the hope we can have through putting our whole faith in Jesus. ★ Support this podcast ★

How do we develop faithfulness, handle trials, and stay positive amidst life's hardest trials? Join us as we study Daniel chapter 6 in the story of Daniel in the Lion's Den. ★ Support this podcast ★

Is your life worth imitating? We're hitting a quick pause in our Daniel series as guest speaker Dr. Doug Ley brings timely encouragement to us as he teaches how to live the true prosperous life according to the Scriptures. ★ Support this podcast ★

This morning "the writing on the wall" wasn't just a phrase, but a literal writing on a wall. It served not only as a warning, but an opportunity for us to recognize a One True and Holy God. Do we measure up? ★ Support this podcast ★

Ego is the enemy of the Christian and threatens our hope of living in a restored relationship with God. Catch up on week 4 of our series on Daniel as we learn how to identify ego in our lives so that we can live with the hope of heaven in our hearts. ★ Support this podcast ★

Christians are called to stand firm against a compromised and demanding culture. Join us for week 3 in our series on the book of Daniel as we learn to live not by the lies of culture, but to live with our faith in God alone. ★ Support this podcast ★

Join us as we continue our journey through the book of Daniel and explore how to respond to worry and fear with full trust in God. ★ Support this podcast ★

What does following Jesus look like in a faithless culture? This isn't a new problem for Christians to figure out. Join us for our summer series in the book of Daniel as we explore how God is in control of every circumstance and how we can remain faithful to God in a faithless culture. ★ Support this podcast ★

There are times in life where you may feel unseen by the people around you, but the story of Hagar shows how God not only sees you, but seeks after you to save you. ★ Support this podcast ★

What would happen if we took the great commandment literally and loved our actual neighbors?Catch up on our final message of the series as we look to live lives focused on reaching those outside the church walls. ★ Support this podcast ★

Why is the most connected generation in the history of the world the loneliest generation in the history of the world? It's because we're not living according to our design. Join us for week 3 of our 'We are the Church' series to learn how to let go of loneliness and embrace the community you were made for. ★ Support this podcast ★

The church is more than just a place where we gather, it is a people sent on mission to bring others into the presence of Jesus. ★ Support this podcast ★

We believe the church isn’t a building—it’s people. And when each of those people knows who they are and what they believe, they can achieve incredible things together. In this message we learn how to be contributors to community rather than just consumers as we seek to be the church. ★ Support this podcast ★

Do you live to serve or be served? Join us for our Palm Sunday message as we consider what true servanthood modeled after the example of Jesus looks like in our lives. ★ Support this podcast ★

In the story of the woman caught in adultery, we see a vivid picture of what it looks like when Jesus, full of grace and truth, stands between sin and judgment. ★ Support this podcast ★

A question, and answer, and a choice. Catch up on week 2 of our series as we dissect a question Jesus asked to a man whose need was far greater than he realized. ★ Support this podcast ★

We often focus on getting answers to the questions we have for God, but our new series in the gospel of John will show us that there's far more for us to learn by answering the questions He has for us. Join us over these next six weeks as we engage with the 'Questions Jesus Asked'. ★ Support this podcast ★

Life is not a playground, it's a battleground, which means we must be 'Battle Ready' to take on the attacks that inevitably come our way. Join us as we close out our 'Masterpiece in Progress' series this week by talking about what it means and what it looks like to put on the whole armor of God. ★ Support this podcast ★

Wouldn't walking out our faith be so much easier if we always got our own way? This week, Paul takes aim at our sinful and selfish tendencies to put ourselves first as he calls us to follow Jesus' example of submission and sacrifice in our relationships. ★ Support this podcast ★

We're instructed in Ephesians 5 to not just talk the talk but to walk the walk. The Only way possible to truly imitate Christ is to walk in love, light, and in wisdom. So show them who you are & walk well. ★ Support this podcast ★

It can be hard to live into our new identity in Christ when we're surrounded by temptations to go back to our old ways. In today's message, we'll look to the encouragement in Ephesians 4, which reminds us that our "old clothes" no longer fit because we have been clothed in Christ. ★ Support this podcast ★

As Christians, we can sometimes make things more complicated than they need to be. This week, we'll shift our focus towards how we are to live in light of our new identity and we'll see that 'walking worthy' is actually quite simple. ★ Support this podcast ★

As people under grace, we're called to live united under Jesus' leadership. So how do we live as one? Join us in week 3 as we discuss how to seek reconciliation with each other and with our world. ★ Support this podcast ★

Life likes to remind us of our flaws, but the good news of the Gospel reveals how God's grace turns our mess into a masterpiece! ★ Support this podcast ★

God's word tells us that we've been chosen, forgiven, and redeemed, but what does this mean for us in the here and now? Join us as we begin our journey through the book of Ephesians and learn together the truths of being a 'Masterpiece in Progress' ★ Support this podcast ★

The season of Advent is not just about looking back to celebrate that Christ came, it's also about looking ahead in anticipation of His second coming. This morning, we wrapped up our advent series by taking a closer look at one of Jesus' parables to understand what it takes for us to be ready for His return. ★ Support this podcast ★

In this Christmas Eve message, we reflect on the birth of Jesus and the joy we can find when we lose control and surrender to God's purpose for our lives. ★ Support this podcast ★

Joseph may be one of the most forgotten characters of Christmas, but his example of faith is one we should desire to imitate. Join us for the third message of our 'In the Waiting' series as we learn how God can use our obedience to fulfill His promises. ★ Support this podcast ★

Have you ever been disappointed that life hasn't gone the way you planned? Have these missed expectations led you question God and His plan for your life?In this weeks message we learn how to trust Jesus in seasons of waiting and in seasons disappointment so that our faith may be strengthened. ★ Support this podcast ★

As we enter into this Advent season, we're reminded that the birth of Christ was not just a joyous occasion, but a divine intervention. The Savior of the world came to be with us in the midst of our suffering and He remains with us in the waiting. ★ Support this podcast ★

In the third and final week of our series on generosity, we learned how to embrace godliness in a world obsessed with riches. We were also invited by our pastoral team to take 'The Contentment Challenge'. Want to join us? Watch this week's message and learn how to participate. ★ Support this podcast ★

Happy Thanksgiving week! In week 2 of our series on Generosity, we look at how generosity can practically flow from our lives when we choose to live with an abundance mentality. ★ Support this podcast ★

Generosity is not about what God wants from you, it's about what He wants for you! Join us as we kick off this three-part series where we'll discover the generous heart of God and learn together how we can cultivate a heart of abundance. ★ Support this podcast ★

Few gifts have caused more division or confusion in the church than the gifts of tongues and prophecy. Entire theologies and denominations have emerged based on these two gifts alone.While we're not called to make the gifts nothing, we're equally not called to make the gifts everything. In seeking to live obedient to Scripture, join us as we study how to pursue love so that we may prophecy in order to build up the Church. ★ Support this podcast ★

Spiritual gifts are the means by which Jesus carries on His mission through His church. Do you know what your gift is? Do you know why it was given to you or how you're to use it? Join us this week as we look to 1 Corinthians 12 for answers. ★ Support this podcast ★