City Awakening Church

Revelation 3:14-22 Robbie Alderman Revival can start with anyone, but it must start with someone church. Revival was needed in the Church at Laodicea. They needed to wake up from their apathetic lives and break out of their comfortable lifestyles and come awake to the Gospel of Jesus.  We want the same thing for our city and our church. Our mission is to awaken both skeptics and believers to the G...

Scripture: Revelation 3:7-13 Speaker: Louis Tamburro Big Idea: Jesus opens and closes doors, but there's one door that can't ever be closed.

Scripture: Revelation 3:1-6 Pastor: Louis Tamburro Big Idea: Jesus cares more about our transformation than our reputation.

Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29 Pastor: Louis Tamburro Big Idea: It isn't loving to tolerate sins that are destructive to our lives and relationships.

Scripture: Revelation 2:12-17 Pastor: Alex Robinson Big idea: Faithfulness to Christ calls us to stand out from the world, not to blend in with it.

Revelation 2:8-11 Louis Tamburro The worst is yet to come, but so is the best. Jesus never promised the Christians in Smyrna and he never promised us that life would be easy. He never promised them or us that we wouldn’t face anymore afflictions in life. In fact he says the opposite of that, which is that more afflictions are coming. He says that the world is going to get worse before it gets bett...

Revelation 2:1-7 Louis Tamburro Our lives and our church will eventually fall apart like it did for the Ephesians, if we abandon Jesus as our greatest love in life. But the good news is Jesus cared enough to give the Ephesian Christians a corrective plan to follow back then, and he cared enough to have John write that corrective plan down for us to follow today. If you’re a believer, your eternal...

Revelation 1:9-20 Louis Tamburro  Jesus is greater than your greatest afflictions. The good news of the gospel is that Jesus used his great power to die for our sins on the cross, and to rise again on the 3rd day so we can enjoy eternal life in heaven with him. He used his great power to prove even our greatest affliction of sin and death, can’t overcome the power of his death and resurrection. If...

Revelation 1:1-8 Louis Tamburro Revelation points us to find peace in Jesus, who is the Alpha and Omega of our lives...If you’re trying to find peace in something else you’ll never find it, because that something else is just a Beta. Whatever your concerns are, whatever your current and future concerns are, you need an Alpha over those concerns not a Beta. You need an Alpha over those concerns, an...

Matthew 6:25-34 Louis Tamburro  You know Jesus cares about you because of Christmas and the cross. The Christmas message is all about the incarnate birth of Jesus, and how he’s the Prince of Peace who came to give us the gift of eternal peace in heaven with him, through faith in him dying for our sins on the cross. His incarnate birth proves he cares about us so much, that he was willing to enter...

Philippians 4:1-13 Louis Tamburro The entire Christmas message is about the incarnate birth of Jesus coming to die for your sins on the cross, so you can enjoy an eternal relationship in heaven with him. If Jesus didn’t care about you, he wouldn’t have died for you. But he died for you, because he cares about you. He’s the Prince of Peace and he can give you a much stronger peace and stability tha...

Ephesians 2:11-22 Louis Tamburro  Everybody wants peace, but the reality is we face things every day threatening to rob our peace. Jesus is the Prince of Peace, who can give us the gift of peace, and he can give others in our city the gift of peace. The more aligned you are with Christ, the more at peace you’ll be in life. 

Isaiah 9:1-7 Zack Casey Peace with God is the greatest peace of all. It’s not just peace in the season. It’s not just peace to get through our tough days. It’s peace between our sinful, unworthy flesh and a holy and just God. You can let the promises we see in Isaiah of a powerful Prince, the Messiah, give you peace that is much bigger than the Christmas season.

Joshua 8:30-35 Robbie Alderman 

Matthew 14:22-33 Louis Tamburro  Both skeptics and believers will face storms in life. You’re either in a storm, or you’ll be in a storm, but either way Jesus is willing to come close to you like he did with the disciples. Nothing proves this more than the incarnate life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. He was willing to come so close to us, that he was willing to die for our sins on the cross t...

Matthew 25:14-30 Louis Tamburro  So sometimes you have to take risks in life, to enjoy certain rewards in life. This parable teaches if you really love Jesus, then you’ll use your talents and risk doing something to help with his kingdom expansion, rather than burying your talents and waste your life doing nothing. It’s better to risk doing something, than to waste your life doing nothing.

Mark 4:1-9, 14-20  Zack Casey  Sometimes our faith can just kind of sit on the surface, or maybe right below the surface of our lives. We might even say that our faith is important to us, but it still just doesn’t seem like much is happening, there’s not much fruit. Cultivating is hard work, and it’s never done.  We have to continually work the garden of our hearts so that we are ready to welcome...

Luke 19:1-10 Louis Tamburro  There’s things in life we start with great enthusiasm, but over time our enthusiasm fades. We have to be careful not to let our distracted attention spans pull us away from focusing on Jesus. We can learn a lot from Zacchaeus, because he remained focused on Jesus, instead of being distracted by the crowd.  The more we focus on Jesus, the more we keep our eyes fixed on...

Psalm 22:1-31 Louis Tamburro  I know it sometimes feels like we’ve been abandoned by God, but the cross proves we’re never abandoned by God. The cross proves we’ll never be abandoned by God in life, if we trust Jesus with our life. If there was ever a time when Jesus would’ve abandoned you, it would’ve been during his brutal torture and execution on the cross. If he wasn’t willing to abandon you d...

Psalm 19:1-14 Louis Tamburro  As you’re walking through daily life, what are you listening for? God’s willing to speak to us every day through creation and scripture, if we’re willing to pause to listen. Jesus wants us to know him, which is why he reveals himself to us through creation and scripture. The more we pause to listen to him speaking through creation, the more we’ll be in awe over his gl...

Psalm 13:1-6 Louis Tamburro We know we’ll face trials, but we don’t always know how to overcome our trials, especially our persistent trials. Persistent trials, requires persistent prayer. Our trials can sometimes feel like they’re lasting an eternity, but Jesus promises us they won’t last an eternity. With Jesus you can cry out how long , but you can also cry out his answer that it’s only for a l...

Psalm 16:1-11 Emmanuel Bellon In this message from Psalm 16 we learn from David that God is our Provider, our Protector and our Preserver. 

Psalm 15 Zack Casey We’re all still learning and even searching for more clarity on the answers to those questions. And, most of us live with this tension of believing in God and wanting to follow him, but also feeling pulled away from Him and following our own path.  If we believe God exist, how does that change how we live? How do we know if we are living a Godly life? We don’t have to be perfec...

Psalm 14: 1-7 Louis Tamburro  Today’s Psalm is about not living a foolish life. It’s about avoiding the most foolish decision we could ever make in our daily lives. Psalm 14 teaches we’re foolish if we think we don’t need God. We’re foolish if we think we can keep living daily life like God doesn’t exist. There is a God, his name is Jesus, and if you don’t believe in him, a dreadful life is coming...

Psalm 8:1-9 Louis Tamburro Psalm 8 is considered a Psalm of praise, because it's written by King David during a time when he’s reflecting on God’s creation. As he’s reflecting and staring at the sky, he’s filled with awe over God’s creation. He’s filled with awe over God creating us, but he’s also praising God for personally caring about us. Like David we should pause to observe creation, but...