City Awakening Church

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...

Romans 7:14-25 Louis Tamburro The Christian life isn’t a perfect life, it’s a stumbling but still growing life. So you can expect good days and bad days, wins and losses, victories and defeats. The battle of the flesh is a part of the Christian experience, but it isn’t the end of the Christian experience. Jesus will make sure it ends with you being fully healed, fully restored, fully sanctified, f...

Romans 7:1-13 Alex Robinson Sanctification comes from a loving union with Jesus not a frustrating cycle of obedience and disobedience.

Romans 6:1-23 Louis Tamburro If you put your faith in Jesus, then you’re no longer a slave to sin. Jesus is now your greater master who did what you and I can’t do. He never sinned, he was never controlled by sin, and died on the cross for our sins. He’s the greater master who conquered sin and death, which means he’s the only one who has the power to break the chains of sin in your life. He’s the...

Romans 5:12-21 Louis Tamburro Original sin was the worst tragedy in history, but Jesus came to offer a better future for humanity. We can’t evolve into having a better life with a better future, but we can rely on Jesus to give us a better life with a better future. 

Romans 5:1-11 Louis Tamburro You can have peace, hope, and love in life, through faith in Christ.

Romans 4:1-25 Louis Tamburro The Christian faith isn’t about living a flawless life. It’s about trusting your flawed life, in the hands of a forgiving God. It’s about trusting your flawed life in the forgiving hands of Jesus. What Paul’s saying in these first 4 chapters of Romans is there’s one problem, it’s our sinful depravity. There’s one savior; it’s Jesus Christ. There’s one solution, it’s sa...

Romans 3:23-31 Zack Casey The cross allowed God to be both just and the justifier, punishing your sin and counting you as righteous.

Romans 3:1-22 Louis Tamburro You need a greater power to help you, fix the sin problem within you, and Jesus is that greater savior with the greater power than your willpower. In these first 3 chapters Paul is challenging the many excuses we have for sinning against God’s moral laws. “Well I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong?” Yeah you did, because you aren’t ignorant to breaking the moral la...

The sinful depravity of humanity makes God’s judgment necessary. Paul’s point is you can’t turn your sinful depravity around, without turning to Jesus. You can keep trying to be your own god, keep trying to save and transform your heart, but you can’t turn your sin natured heart around, without turning to Jesus for the salvation and transformation of your heart. Jesus is our God who came to save u...

Romans 1:18-25 Louis Tamburro The fingerprints of God are all around us, and the good news of the gospel is we don’t just have a chance to seek the truth of God’s existence. We have a chance to have a personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus. Jesus came into the world to show us he’s our God who created us, who breathed life into us, who put eternity in our hearts. He died on the cros...

Romans 1:1-17 Louis Tamburro The Gospel has and is the power to save and transform your life. If you’re a skeptic who doesn’t believe in all this, you need to remember Paul was a skeptic and didn’t believe in all this either. But after seeing the resurrected Jesus and experiencing his life transforming power, this highly respected, highly educated man couldn’t deny Jesus anymore. He became a follo...

Revelation 21:1-7 Louis Tamburro The hands that wiped away our sins, will wipe away our tears. The Christmas season is a time where we celebrate Jesus as our Emmanuel, our God who came into this world to die for our sins on the cross, and turn our tears into dancing again.