City Awakening Church

Psalm 6: 1-10 Louis Tamburro King David’s the author of this Psalm, and he’s writing this during a time when he’s wrestling with God’s silence. It’s hard to understand why God is sometimes silent, especially when we’re desperately praying for his help. Sometimes God feels silent, but God is never absent. If you think nobody cares and nobody’s listening, Psalm 6 shows the Lord cares and is always l...

Psalm 4: 1-8 Louis Tamburro Psalm 4 is an evening prayer, that can prep our hearts to sleep peacefully at night, despite whatever problems are remaining at the end of the day. It’s about learning how to sleep peacefully at night, despite knowing there’s lingering problems we have to face tomorrow.  You’ll sleep peacefully when you believe God is bigger than your problems, but you’ll lose sleep whe...

Psalm 3:1-8 Louis Tamburro  The Psalm we’re studying today can help to encourage us when it comes to facing our fears, and everybody has fears. It teaches how to wake up ready to face whatever problems come our way. You can always turn to God in prayer. So when your problems, tears, and fears are great, you can always turn to Jesus who’s greater than your problems, tears, and fears! 

Psalm 1:1-6 Louis Tamburro  This psalm teaches us the more you seek happiness in the world, the more your happiness will be taken by the world. But the more you seek happiness in Jesus, the more your happiness will be restored by Jesus when it’s rattled by the world. He doesn’t promise an easy life, he promises a better life, a happier life if you walk this life with him. He promises you’ll reach...

Matthew 6:5-13 Alex Robinson Prayer is a common thing in Christianity, but almost nobody feels great at it. Prayer is something that all Christians know they should to but often leads to confusion, frustration, or distraction.  But what learn in this message is that prayer understood correctly is simply an outflow of the thoughts and feelings that we naturally have as we go through life. We just d...

Psalm 56 Derrick DeLain  Did you know that throughout the Bible, “Fear not.” is found in the Bible 366 times. However, all throughout the Bible you see people afraid. Fear and faith can occupy the same space. Being afraid is ok, but eventually, our faith has to win out!

Romans 16:17-27 Louis Tamburro  How did evil begin, and what’s our hope for dealing with evil? Both skeptics and believers experience evil and suffering. We don’t just see evil and suffering in the world, we also experience it in own lives. Evil had a beginning, but it also has an ending...Paul ends Romans like he started it, which is pointing us to the gospel, pointing us to Jesus for salvation a...

Romans 16: 17-20 Zack Casey God’s judgement can be a scary and unpopular topic, but it’s definitely a reality taught in the Bible and therefore we can’t ignore it. If we do, then we’ll really be caught of guard in the future. God is Just, he cannot let sin go unpunished. That’s why Jesus had to die on the cross. He bore the full wrath of God, but for those that reject that gift, they will bear the...

Romans 16:17-20 Louis Tamburro  It doesn’t take long for a skeptic or a believer to realize there’s good and evil in the world. God created us and the world for good, but Satan wants to take what’s good and turn it into evil. His greatest goal is to lure you away from walking in the enjoyment of relational friendship with God. In Romans 16 Paul’s warning us that Satan will create divisions and dec...

Romans 16:1-16 Louis Tamburro Jesus gives us Christian community as a gift, and salvation through faith in Jesus is at the center of that gift. The feelings Paul has for the 26 names mentioned are driven by his salvation in Jesus.  Jesus rescued us, he gathered us together in this Christian community to celebrate our new life in Christ, and to love each other as a family. We’ve been rescued, forgi...

Romans 15: 8-33 Zack Casey God knows who you are, he knows your personality, your life situation, your capacity, your skill set, and he, according to Ephesians, created good works just for you.  If you have placed your trust in Jesus, then you are called to be a part of his mission. Jesus doesn’t just want to transform your life. He wants to transform others through your life. What is your mission...

Romans 14:1-15:7 Alex Robinson The reality is we’ll have disagreements in both our church families and our personal families, so the question isn’t will we have disagreements? It’s how can we handle those disagreements in loving ways, so we don’t walk away? The question is how can we disagree, and still love each other despite our disagreements? The big idea is to seek unity on essentials, and lib...

Romans 13: 8-14 Alex Robinson As Paul begins talking about our transformed lives in Christ, we start to focus on how our deeper knowledge of God is supposed to impact our everyday lives. In this message we look at two resources that we as Christians should rely on to follow God. The big idea for this message is that the Christian life should be be defined by love and intentionality. 

Louis Tamburro Romans 13:1-7 In the last 5 chapters of Romans Paul is focusing on our response to the gospel and how God wants us to live in our horizontal relationship with others. In ch 13:1-7 he’s focusing specifically on how God wants us to live in our relationship with governing authorities. He’s teaching us how to respond to corrupt governing authorities and policies. 

Louis Tamburro Romans 12:9-21 Both skeptics and believers would agree that love is a verb, which means it requires action. Love is sometimes felt with our emotions, but it’s always expressed with our actions. The text in this message focuses on things to love, things to hate, and how to respond if you’re in a war or conflict with somebody. It focuses on how to display an ethic of love in daily lif...

Romans 12:1-8 Louis Tamburro Both skeptics and believers take good things God created, and we turn them into god things giving them a glory seat in our lives only God deserves. So everybody worships something, but we’ll also make sacrifices for whatever we worship.  We’ll make sacrifices using our head, heart, and hands every day to satisfy whatever we worship. Worship entails using your head, hea...

Romans 11:30-12:1 Louis Tamburro  The reality is everybody worships something. We either worship God, or we worship something else as god, but either way everybody worships something. We put all kinds of things and even people we admire in a glory seat only God deserves. When we do this, when we ignore God’s glory or live as glory thieves, our lives become out of alignment with God’s intended purp...

Romans 11:1-29 Louis Tamburro There are a lot of things we quit in life.  Will God quit on you, after he saves you and starts a relationship with you? If you want an eternal irrevocable salvation that can’t ever be taken away, then sincerely put your faith in Jesus as your Lord and Deliverer. If you’ve already sincerely put your faith in Jesus, then don’t quit living as a faithful remnant. Don’t q...

Romans 10:14-21 Alex Robinson  As we wrestle with the concepts of God’s sovereignty and control and humanity’s free will and personal responsibly, we are going to look at why many end up rejecting the Gospel but that that doesn’t negate our responsibility to share the Gospel.

Matthew 28:1-15 Louis Tamburro  Easter is all about the resurrection of Jesus, it’s about the historical claim that Jesus has risen from the dead. Both skeptics and believers can agree it’s a historical fact, that many people have claimed Jesus has risen from the dead. We’re examining this historical claim to see if Jesus has truly risen from the dead, and what it means for our lives today if it’s...

Romans: 9:30-10:13 Zack Casey If you don’t remember anything else from today, remember that, “You will never regret saying, ‘Lord, I need you!’” 

Romans 9:1-29 Louis Tamburro God’s responsible for our salvation, but we’re responsible for our rejection. The good news is that God’s love for us is an unconditional love that isn’t based on any human conditions. People in the world will love you conditionally, but when God loves you, he loves you unconditionally. God doesn’t give you mercy because you are good, he gives you mercy because he is g...

Romans 6:1-11 Louis Tamburro The resurrection gives us hope for a better eternal life in the future, but also an entirely new life in the present! The resurrection of Jesus changed the life of his family, the Apostles, Paul, so many others, and it can change your life too! It can change your life for the better not the worse! It can give you a new life, new power, new freedom from FOMO, with a new...

Romans 8:18-39 Louis Tamburro God promises a good life, not an easy life. Jesus had a good life, not an easy life. Are you suffering and groaning? Are you struggling and hurting?  If you want a hope that’s greater than your suffering, then put your hope in Jesus today. Put your hope in the one who overcame the grave, who overcame the valley of the shadow of death, and who can overcome your valleys...

Romans 8:1-17 Louis Tamburro You need to walk with the Holy Spirit to enjoy the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Do you want to enjoy the fruit of the Holy Spirit for your life? Do you want a new mind, new power, new life, new desires, new relationship, new destiny for your life? It starts with repenting of your sins and believing Jesus died for your sins. It starts with receiving the good news that ther...