Sinopsis
Teaching from the weekly worship gatherings at Awaken Community. A safe place to journey with Jesus at the center.
Episodios
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December 22_Awake in the Waiting: Longing
23/12/2024 Duración: 22minPastor Jenna brings our Advent series to a close in preparation for Christmas Eve. She walks us through the ways the evangelical understanding of longing can be counter productive to an otherwise important revealing that can happen through our longings.
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December 15_Awake in the Waiting: Waiting
15/12/2024 Duración: 43minMicah processes the importance of waiting and the through line that we can see through scripture. It's in the waiting that things are exposed and produced within us.
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December 8_Awake in the Waiting: Crying Out
08/12/2024 Duración: 49minMicah discusses Exodus 1:1-18 & 2:23-25 when the Israelites cried out and God heard, saw, listened, knew them. In the same way that Jesus modeled what it means to be human, we are met by God in the moments when we can acknowledge and embrace our limitations and struggles.
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December 1_Awake in the Waiting: Darkness (Fixed)
01/12/2024 Duración: 46minAwaken begins a new series through our last Advent season at St James. Micah kicks the series off by discussing the significance of darkness and the ways God shows up alongside us as a midwife is present to those birthing new life into the world.
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November 24_Take Heart: Searching the Psalms
24/11/2024 Duración: 02minMicah closes out the Take Heart series by looking at Psalm 27 to help us navigate the difficulty of balancing hope for the world and the harsh realities we have to be reconciled to.
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November 17_Take Heart: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
17/11/2024 Duración: 45minMicah talks through the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3 and invites Awaken into the work of civil disobedience in the name of sacrificial love for others.
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November 10_Take Heart: Calm in the Storm
10/11/2024 Duración: 42minMicah brings us to Mark 6:45-52 when Jesus appears to the disciples in the midst of a storm on the sea. He points us to the ways that Jesus has proven himself a presence of peace and comfort to those in distress.
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November 3_Take Heart: I Have Overcome The World
03/11/2024 Duración: 40minAwaken starts a new series this month as we find ourselves in a tumultuous political season. Micah kicks things off by adding context to Jesus words in John 16:33, "take heart for I have overcome the world". What does it mean to find peace in the midst of anxiety and uncertainty?
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October 27_Wells and Fences: Peacemakers
27/10/2024 Duración: 38minThe Wells and Fences series comes to a close with a powerful message from Micah as we near Election Day. What does it mean to be a peacemaker? How do we do this for even those we might find ourselves at odds with? We can't make peace in the world if we haven't made peace within ourselves.
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October 20_Wells and Fences: Power and Empire
20/10/2024 Duración: 37minMicah is back at Awaken to talk through the concept of power and empire in scripture. How does power look in the kingdom of God and how do we integrate the ways Jesus has modeled what it means to hold power within the context of our own lives in this election season?
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October 13_Wells and Fences: Jesus in the Wilderness
13/10/2024 Duración: 41minAwaken's Youth Director Trevor speaks for the first time on a Sunday morning and invites the congregation into the story of Jesus journeying through the wilderness. How does the human Jesus experience these tests and what example does it set for how we might find encouragement and grace in the midst of our own struggles?
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October 6_Wells and Fences: White Christian Nationalism
06/10/2024 Duración: 37minPastor Jenna takes the stage this Sunday and talks through the difficult reality facing our current political and religious climate. She brings attention to the language and ideology of white christian nationalism and how it finds itself at odds with scripture and the way Jesus held power.
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Sept 29_Wells and Fences: Parables
29/09/2024 Duración: 40minMicah continues the Wells and Fences series by providing context for Jesus usage of parables in his teachings. The kingdom of God is not bombastic, but rather grows slow and steady like a mustard seed.
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Sept 22_Wells and Fences: Love Your Enemies
22/09/2024 Duración: 34minAwaken continues our series on wells and fences by inviting us to consider perhaps a more difficult message to absorb in this political season and climate. Micah discusses the dehumanization of others when we label them "enemies" and points to Jesus who offers a better way.
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September 15_Wells and Fences: Intro
15/09/2024 Duración: 32minAwaken returns to a recurring series that has become a cornerstone of our community. Micah provides an intro to the Wells and Fences series and the importance of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ.
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Sept 8_ Formational Targets: Listening
11/09/2024 Duración: 40minAwaken is back at St James for both gatherings to continue our formational targets series. Micah discusses the nuance of listening for God's voice in the midst of our own.
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July 28_Holding What's Hard
29/07/2024 Duración: 33minAs a community we take a moment to create space for all the hard things being held, both individually and collectively. In the midst of our grief, we hold fast to the promises of God, the comfort of the Spirit, and the hope found in Jesus.
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July 21_Lost in Translation: Thomas
22/07/2024 Duración: 41minMicah takes a look at the story of Thomas in John 20:19-29. While Thomas is often labelled as "The Doubter", this story is intentionally included in John's gospel as an encouragement to those with doubts. Even as Thomas expresses his doubts and makes his request known, Jesus moves towards him and meets him where he's at.
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July 14th_Lost in Translation: Judas
15/07/2024 Duración: 34minMicah looks at the character of Judas and the different accounts we have of his life and death. How does someone this close to Jesus make the decision to betray him?
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July 7_Lost in Translation: Romans 13
08/07/2024 Duración: 47minMicah looks at Romans 13 and the instructions to the Church to submit to the governing authorities. What does Paul have in his pocket when he writes this to the Church of Rome? How are we to understand these verses for our time and our day?