Awaken City Church

Derek continues our study through the book of Jonah looking at God's grace towards us when all seems lost, even if we're in the situation we're in because of our own poor choices.

In this message, our Teaching Pastor Derek kicks off our new Sunday morning sermon series going through the book of Jonah together. It's an encouraging and challenging message of God's pursuit of rebellious people and His call for us to repent, obey, and love.    

Derek finishes up our study of the Holy Spirit by discussing what spiritual gifts are, why they’re given, and how we can better know & use our giftings.

Our Worship & Executive Pastor Jonathan leads us through Galatians 5:16-26 leads us through what is the fruit of the Spirit and how we can have it in our lives.

Derek continues our study of the Holy Spirit as he teaches us what it means in Ephesians 5:18 to "be filled with the Spirit".

This kicks off our series studying who the Holy Spirit is, the role He has in our lives, and the impact He makes in the world.

We wrap up our series through the book of 1 John with the message from our Worship & Executive Pastor Jonathan on knowing that you have eternal life and living with confidence in this life.

Our series in the book of 1 John nears the end with Pastor Derek teaching us about John's encouragement that we can trust in who Jesus is and what He's done for us because of the evidence and witness that God has given to us. 

Our series working through the book of 1 John continues as Derek teaches us what the Lord tells us about having overcome the world through faith in Jesus!

Derek teaches us the great news of our hope in Jesus because of the power shown in the resurrection!

Our Worship and Executive Pastor Jonathan continues our study through the book of 1 John teaching about God's love for us and our responsibility to represent God and His love to the world by how we love one another. 

Derek continues our series through the book of 1 John looking at John's warning to "test the spirits" and what that means for us today.

Derek continues our study through the book of 1 John by looking at what John tells us about the confidence we can have before God because of what Jesus has done. 

Our Worship & Executive Pastor Jonathan continues our series through 1 John with the challenge John presents that there is no middle ground when it comes to Jesus. Everyone must choose whether they will trust in Jesus and surrender to Him or be against Him.  

Derek continues our series through the book of 1 John by teaching on John's warnings about "Anti-Christs".

Our Teaching Pastor Derek continues our series in 1 John and teaches us what it means to love God vs loving the world and how this is evidence of having been saved by Jesus.

Our Worship & Executive Pastor Continues our series through 1 John and teaches us the importance of staying in a close relationship with Jesus so that we stay aware of the truth and away from the darkness of sin.

Derek continues walking us through 1 John, looking at what are the proofs that we know Jesus and have been saved.

We continue our series through 1 John as Derek teaches us what the Apostle John wrote to the church about walking in the light of God's wisdom and the confidence and hope we have in Jesus as our advocate and propitiation for our sins.

Derek kicks off a new series as we work our way through the book of 1 John as John the apostle writes to the church he pastored to address issues of false teachings and the truth of the Gospel.

We kicked off the New Year by learning the importance and some practical tips for how to study the Bible. Check it out!

Jesus said that He came to give His life as a ransom for many! That's exciting news! The fact that the God of all creation would be willing to go through suffering and death so that we might have life forever with Him is amazing! Check out this message by our Teaching Pastor Derek as He covers our last statement Jesus gave about why He came to earth.

Have you been looking for "it"? You know, that thing that will finally make you feel like your life is complete; whole? That thing which will finally bring you peace and lasting joy. If so, this message is for you! Our Worship & Executive Pastor Jonathan teaches us here about Jesus' claim that He came so that we might have life and have it to the fullest. Check it out!

Our Teaching Pastor Derek continues our Advent series of the 5 reasons Jesus gave for why He came to earth. In this message, Derek unpacks Jesus' claim that He came, "to bear witness to the truth" when He was speaking with Pilate before His death.