Awaken Church

We have a very real enemy who seeks to destroy our lives. But we also have a GREATER Savior named Jesus who has the power to deliver us and give us new life!

God has given us something worth sharing: our faith in Jesus! And He calls us to show the world who He is through the way we live, and we need to tell others about Him through the words we speak.

Following Jesus doesn’t just change what we believe - it changes where we belong.

A moment in Jesus' Ministry where His Kingdom Work was not only Misunderstood, but Maligned as evil and what we can learn today about the same

There is a difference between being around Jesus and following Jesus. While the crowd was attracted to what Jesus could do for them, Jesus called His disciples closer. Jesus is always inviting us to take one step closer, moving from the crowd into a relationship with Him that transforms us and sends us out on His mission.

How can we look at this exchange between Jesus and the Pharisees and see how a heart of stone can rob us from what Jesus offers us.

The Sabbath was a gift from God, but the Pharisees turned it into a burden. They missed the heart behind the Sabbath. But Jesus reminds them of the purpose of the Sabbath and tells them that He is Lord of the Sabbath.

Sometimes we find ourselves asking why don't you just do what everybody else does? That's essentially the question the religious leaders are asking Jesus. But Jesus is going to show them that He didn’t come to give you more religion He came to give them the gospel.

Jesus meets a man named Levi, who is a tax collector, and what Jesus does with this tax collector is going to show us something incredibly important about the kind of people Jesus came to save.

There are moments that can change the direction of a person’s life. In Mark 2, we meet a paralyzed man and his friends, who come to Jesus and think they know what the paralyzed man needs, but Jesus was about to give him something even greater than he ever imagined.

We all know what it is like to be desperate, but in our desperate times, we need to go to our compassionate Savior.

How can we tend to our fields?

How do you react when someone corrects you? Whether your spouse, your boss, a friend...Proverbs 9 says that reaction is the tell: it reveals which of two tables you're eating at, and this week we'll discover why the door to Wisdom's feast only opens to the hungry.

Proverbs 16:9

When we look back on the foolish moments in our lives, we don't want those moments to define us. And that's exactly what Paul wants for the Galatian church. He doesn't want them to be marked by one foolish decision, trading God's grace for their own works.

Knowing God's will begins with knowing God's heart. When we trust Him completely and walk with Him daily, He faithfully leads us one step at a time.

Words are powerful. And sometimes it seems like we can't control them. But one of the goals of Proverbs, is to help us know and understand the power of our words. and how we use our words when talking to one another.

Jesus rose early—before daylight—after what was likely one of the busiest days of His ministry. He woke up early to meet with the Father, Simon and the others slept in. When they finally woke up, they weren’t looking for intimacy with Jesus; they were looking for Him so they could keep the crowds happy. Simon wanted to ride the momentum of public excitement more than he wanted the presence of Chri...

Authority and authority figures can stir up all kinds of feelings and emotions. But when it comes to Jesus and His authority, we should find comfort. And in one day we see Jesus' authority on display in 3 different ways.