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Striving together AS ONE without fear of oppostion knowing that suffering may come. Any encouragement from being one with Christ, any comforts from his love, any tenderness or compassion: then make Pauls' joy complete by being like minded and of one spirit/mind.โดย Awaken Community

Paul seems content to live his life for the sake of something other than HIMSELF. He seems to be offering a reversal to the natural tendency of humans which is to focus on self.โดย Awaken Community

A pastors heart/hopes for his people. Confident that God will complete what God has begun, I pray your love may abound in knowledge, that you may be able to discern a path that leads to life, and that your lives will be filled with the fruit of life and resurrection.โดย Awaken Community

40 days between resurrection and ascension as the church is being prepared to be the new expression of God’s people in the world.โดย Awaken Community

Jesus resurrection becomes an animated narrative that brings liberation and hope to the oppressed and marginalized.โดย Awaken Community

Jesus enters the city on Palm Sunday to the people wanting him to be king.โดย Awaken Community

What do you do when you come face to face with the possibility that what you believe is NOT true. When your beliefs come under attack, what might be born in this space?โดย Awaken Community

Joshua spent 40 years preparing to lead the people into the promised land. He was ready at 40 and yet had to wait a generation to go into the land.โดย Awaken Community

Joshua and the 11 spies sent into the promised land for 40 days. Do we have the capacity to see what God is preparing us for and wanting to give us even in the face of odds that seem insurmountable?โดย Awaken Community

The life of Moses is often studied in three 40-year spans - 40 years of becoming, 40 years of formation, and 40 years of doing the work. Throughout his life he goes through these spans or phases or seasons of something being born and something dying.โดย Awaken Community

What connects all the 40's in the bible? 40 days in the wilderness, 40 days of fasting, 40 lashes as discipline. 40's a big deal. In our lives and also in the bible, there's a lot of meaning behind it.โดย Awaken Community

What comes to mind when you hear the words "repent" and "sin"? Guesses are not much positivity. This morning, we dive into the biblical meaning behind these words and not necessarily the American church's meaning.โดย Awaken Community

Jesus was among the marginalized for a majority of the time he ministered. What does this say about the kingdom? How does it influence our lives and our community when we say we want to look like Jesus?โดย Awaken Community

What does a life lived under the influence of the kingdom look like? How would it guide our decisions from day to day? And what does Jesus say the kingdom of God is like? This is one more thing that we center Awaken around, another piece of Jesus' life and teachings.โดย Awaken Community

Jenna speaks this morning about Mark 2 where the religious leaders of Jesus' time once again question his disciples and their seeming snub at the rules and practices of the time.โดย Awaken Community

This morning, Micah shares about how we can see the thing behind the thing. For the Pharisees, it was washing your hands that made you clean. But what Jesus worked to change was the religion for religion sake; you can wash the outside of a cup and it's still dirty inside.โดย Awaken Community

Pastor Kelly Chatman joins us this morning to continue our series on the Life & Teachings of Jesus.โดย Awaken Community

For our second week of the series, we're talking about the third way; non-violence and peace making. It's the way of Jesus and of his kingdom. ***This week we made the hard decision to be back online for a few weeks due to the surge of covid cases.โดย Awaken Community

At Awaken, we say we're about the well and not the fence. We prefer to gather around the well instead of building a fence to decide who's in and who's out. Which begs the question - what's in the well? What do we center ourselves around? Starting this week, we'll name those things that we center our community around.…

As a community, we reflect on 2021 and share some of the ways we saw God working in our lives through the year.โดย Awaken Community

We invite you to consider the arrival of Emmanuel. God with us.โดย Awaken Community

This Sunday, we had the treat of hearing from Pastor Jenna. She shared what it might look like to have the author of Peace with us here and now in this time.โดย Awaken Community

The word “father” can be complicated. It can be discomforting. It can bring up bad memories. It can also be reassuring and warm. However you come to that today, there’s a place for you. We had an original sketch written by Tiffany Cornwell, Directed by Joy Donley, starring Tiffany Cornwell and Mike Donley during the gatherings.…

This second week of Advent, the week of Joy, we continue on in Isaiah 9 on the names of the Lord - Almighty God. The Lord's might is different than the typical might; the way of the Lord doesn't fight fire with fire, violence with violence. So what does the Lord's might look like?โดย Awaken Community

For the first Sunday of advent, we continue our tradition of the Advent art series with Vanessa Lucius brining her painting and Brienna Rossiter, a poem. This season, we'll be going through Isaiah 9:6 where it's prophesied the coming of Jesus and the names that he will be known as; Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peac…

In addition to Jenna's prayer and reflection practice, we have Micah's teaching he would have taught on Sunday should he have been able to make it. He closes out the Faith & Doubt series with John the Baptist who asks "are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?" Meditation music by: Signa (feat. John Mark Nelson)…

We have a bit of a change of pace this week. Micah wasn’t able to make it Sunday morning so we did a prayer and reflection practice during the gathering. You can follow along with the prayer and reflection questions to participate. Micah’s sermon will be posted separately.โดย Awaken Community

What does the role of memory play in our faith journeys and in that of a community? Psalm 77 gives us a window into that journey and how we hold it all as a community.โดย Awaken Community

Throughout the gospels, Jesus teaches by saying "You have heard it said...but I say unto you..." as a way to show there's more. There's a deeper, fuller view than you've seen so far. What if we carried this on as a community? What would that look like?โดย Awaken Community

This morning, we continue our series on Faith & Doubt with the quintessential doubter of the scriptures - Doubting Thomas. But could "Doubting Thomas" actually be someone to look up to instead of an example of what not to do?โดย Awaken Community

The stories of Nicodemus illustrate the ways in which a question or a doubt can be the opening of a path to a deeper spiritual life.โดย Awaken Community

To start off our new series, Micah introduces Brian McLaren's framework for the stages of faith and how doubt is a much closer friend to faith than we might think.โดย Awaken Community

In Acts 1, Jesus send his disciples out in concentric circles of influence. This morning, we talk about who or what we are called and also sent to.โดย Awaken Community

Pastor Judy Howard Peterson joins us again this morning to talk about reframing the mission of the church and how it can transform how we show up as the body of Christ in the world.โดย Awaken Community

Why do people go to church? Why are we here? Why are you here? This morning, Micah talks about the point of this whole thing called church.โดย Awaken Community

Rev. Kelly Chatman joins us this morning to talk about what it looks like for a community to be a place of welcome, safety, and belonging.โดย Awaken Community

Pastor Judy Howard-Peterson is with us again teaching from Paul's letter to the Corinthians. Expanding from last week's message reminding us of our deep need to be connected to the source, Judy talks about generosity and living congruent lives.โดย Awaken Community

Pastor Judy Howard-Peterson teaches from Paul's letter to the Corinthians. She reminds us of our deep need to be connected to the source.โดย Awaken Community

This morning Pastor Jenna teaches on 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, focusing on Paul's word to the church at Corinth to "do better." Jenna helps us reflect on what was revealed in us this past year and explores what it actually means to be invited by God to do better.โดย Awaken Community

This morning we dive into 1 Corinthians 11 to see what it says about the Lord's Table and what it has to do with the Passover meal and subsequently for us today.โดย Awaken Community

This morning, Micah clarifies what we believe generosity is and what it isn't. This isn't a cry for money as it can often be when you hear the subject of a sermon is generosity. It's a way of us being together after shrinking back, closing in, and shutting down due to the pandemic. In many ways, we have to relearn what it looks like to be generous …

In the second week of our Proximate series, we wanted to acknowledge the process some of the grief and loss that we've experienced since we last met. And in this practice, learn how to be Jesus and embody the Lord's comfort to each another.โดย Awaken Community

This Sunday was our first gathering back together in person in the building. 16 months, 73 weeks, 508 days since our last gathering. With this series, we're focusing on what it looks like to be together, next to each other in the pews once again.โดย Awaken Community

This week's final teaching of our Lost in Translation series is from the New Testament. 1 Corinthians 11 is about how women should wear head coverings in worship. Could this scripture actually mean the opposite of what we've mostly heard?โดย Awaken Community

Heading back to the Old Testament this week for Lost in Translation, taking a look at the role hospitality plays in community and even in healing relationships.โดย Awaken Community

Aaaaaand here's another doozy. As potentially problematic as this passage has been for many, the Great Commission is our scripture for this week. Micah jumps into pulling the threads and differentiating between consent and conquest.โดย Awaken Community

Another great week of Lost in Translation with Micah. This week, it's the story of Tamar in Genesis 38. Micah takes on a couple misconceptions about the scripture and offers some different ideas and takes to consider.โดย Awaken Community

This week, we’re discussing Romans 13. It may not seem like an obvious choice for Lost in Translation on the surface, but it's been used to rationalize so much that is the opposite of the way of Jesus in the world.โดย Awaken Community

We're jumping in full force with this summer's Lost in Translation series with Judges 19. It's one of those scriptures you read and think "What the what?!" But Micah shows us what we can glean from it and how it applies to where we find ourselves today. Surgeon General's Warning: Not suitable to listen with children present. Also, this content migh…

This week we're finishing up our Wells + Fences series with Freedom in Christ. It's the final part of the picture of what kind of community we want to be and look like.โดย Awaken Community