City Awakening Church

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...

Ephesians 5:8-9, "for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true)"

Ephesians 4:30-32, “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another,...

We all have certain things like that, certain thoughts, behaviors, and sins we want to change about our lives, what are those things for you?..Whatever those things are, society’s taught you the power to change those things comes from within you,...

The Bible speaks to need to belong, and it also speaks to our need to contribute to something bigger than ourselves. In Ephesians 2-4, Paul explains how each one of us can be a small part of big plan.

"And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in...

In the first part of Ephesians 1 we discover that in Christ we are blessed.

A Christian has faith that God exists, an atheist has faith God doesn’t exist, both have certain degrees of faith to believe. We have to have a willingness to examine our faith and our doubts. Nobody wants to invest their lives in a faith that...

Both Christians and non-Christians alike celebrate the Christmas season by having Christmas parties. We have staff parties, school parties, small group parties, friends and family parties, ugly sweater parties, we have all kinds of parties full of...

Giving gifts is good, but you can give a gift for the wrong reason.

Both Christians and non-Christians use Christmas lights to celebrate the Christmas season, but those lights can have even greater significance in Jesus.

“What will heaven be like when we die?”

What is hell, and why would God create people if He knew they’d sin, suffer, and go to hell?