City Awakening Church

"When we’re single, and for those who are currently single, we tend to have unrealistic expectations of marriage. We tend to over desire or under desire marriage. We tend to crave marriage like an idol. This will rob married and single people of...

You can't lose God's love by your immorality, or gain it by your morality. God's love is freely given...

The bad news is, our situation is far worse than we could have expected. The good news is that the solution is far better than we could have expected.

God doesn't hate us, God loves us. He is very much approachable when we sin. God Draws near to those who are far from him.

If you believed Jesus would return today, how would that change how you live? We know Jesus will return; we don't know when. We have to be prepared.

The question that all of us must face today is similar. In light of all that our culture tells us that whatever you want to do to make you happy is the most important. Whether it deals with sexual identity and fulfillment, our rights to view and do...

No one wants to spend time doing something that doesn't make a difference. Sometimes prayer can seem like one of those things...but is it? What if prayer actually changes things? How would it change the way you pray?

Everybody faces suffering and hardships in life, and everybody has their breaking points. There’s only so much suffering, hardships, burdens we can carry before eventually we reach our breaking point and collapse.

We can make all the plans in life we want, but we’re not guaranteed tomorrow, we’re not guaranteed that we’ll get to see those plans through. The only plans that are guaranteed in life are God’s plans, so we need to align our plans with...

Good plans will never trump a great God. James 4:13-17

"What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not...

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:17-18

Your tongue is small, but it’s influence is great. It can either cause great destruction, or great encouragement.

True faith is seen by your lifestyle, not your lip service. James 2:14-26

Jesus is our King, he’s given us a Royal Law, and his Royal Law is for us to love people not judge people...We’re to love people not judge people.

Our desire for equality is an ethic that comes not from society, but from God. The bible teaches nobody deserves to sit on a throne except Jesus. So don’t show partiality, instead show love to everybody.

James 1:19-27. Humility precedes hearing. Hearing precedes doing. Doing is the fruit of the Gospel.

Everybody goes through trials, everybody has different sources of wisdom they use when facing their trials, and Jesus’ little brother James teaches us that the God of Christianity’s willing to give us wisdom for our trials.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces...

We can believe the resurrection is true, therefore it has incredible implications for our lives today!

Matthew 6:16, “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.”

Changing HOW we pray because of WHO we’re praying to.

The first thing Jesus teaches us in The Lord's Prayer is that our God is an approachable and loving Father. Matthew 6:5-9

Ephesians 6:10-24

Jesus is our primary example of love, he’s our primary example of what it means to “walk in love.” We need to love as Christ loved us. We can never fully love like Christ loved us, because we can never love as perfect as Jesus did, and our...