Awake Church Podcast

Sunday Morning message with our Pastoral Care Pastor, Dawn Bray.

Intentional remembrance of God's past faithfulness anchors our faith, transforms our present perspective, and fuels our hope for an uncertain future.

Guest Speaker, Dan Mohler, shares on living selflessly and how abiding in Jesus, helps us to live more like Him and fulfill our purpose in life and on the Earth.

The culmination of the age is near and entirely supernatural. The King returns with angels and saint, transforms and rewards His bondservants. Jesus will judge the nations and the wicked, before the age-anticipated marriage of the Lamb, followed by the reign with His transformed people in the next age on a new earth in the fullness of His Kingdom.

There are two significant "marks" upon people in the last days. The first, and most important, is the Mark of the Lord - placed invisibly upon the foreheads of the bondservants of the King. The second is the mark of the beast, taken by people who are deceived and follow the beast.

In anticipation of His return, Jesus takes time to share about our part to play before He returns. In this message, we read Matt 25 where Jesus highlights important action and heart posture.

A new teaching emerged in the 19th century, saying that the Holy Spirit doesn't move in power any longer and the church would get raptured away to heaven before Jesus returns. The words of Daniel, Jesus, Paul and others share a different reality. The reality that we are called to be over-comers and light-bringers through the end of the age, as we eagerly await His return.

God has a clock where He helps us remember and celebrate what He has done in the past and prophetically declares what He will do and some timing of when He will do things in the future. Ahead of us in the very near future is the fulfillment of the last part of events at the culmination of the age - the Return of Jesus.

Family Life Pastor, Brian Hedges, shares on the topic of Prayer & Intercession.

The supernatural God who created all things and now lives within us, has invited His followers to live like He lived, continuing the kind of works and supernatural activity like He did. But we must believe and have our minds set on the Spirit in order to "walk in the same manner as Jesus walked".

After the creation of the Universe, the Earth and all that is in it, visible or invisible, God has worked within, and for, mankind. His actions to help, deliver, provide and love His people throughout written history are profound, from the beginning to the incarnation of Jesus, followed by His resurrection and then His moving into us by the Holy Spirit.

The invisible God is the creator of all of the universe and everything within it. He is infinite yet made of love, holy and just. He is the God of the supernatural who lives inside of us and does the supernatural through us.

In this special Sunday night teaching, Steve Witt - friend, author, and pastor of Bethel Cleveland - teaches practically about operating in the gift of prophesy for the encouragement of the body of Christ.

Paul continues his helpful instruction to people including family dynamics. He then shifts to identifying how every believer needs to be prepared spiritually by donning God's armor - protecting our spirit man from the enemy and also attacking the spiritual enemies with the gospel and the word of God.

Author, pastor and friend of Awake Church shares a life-giving word out of the book of James about the power of our tongue.

In this portion of Paul's letter to the believers in Ephesus, he reminds them of the eternal danger of living a life of immorality and greed. He encourages the believers to instead be repeatedly filled with the Holy Spirit, walk in the light and live fully awake spiritually, imitating Jesus by loving and serving one another, which rises as a fragrant aroma to the Father.

Living in the midst of a city rife with occult worship, superstition and greed, the Apostle Paul is encouraging the believers scattered throughout Ephesus to live differently. He shares about the gifts they have been given by Jesus through the Spirit and encourages them to use their gifts to serve and edify others while laying aside their old ways of living and talking.

Awake's Outreach Team Leader, Eric Hamm, shares about heavenly treasure and tools for sharing the Gospel.

Paul continues in his letter to the churches in Ephesus, to share about the beautiful mystery of the one new man - Jew and Gentile both united as one saved being by grace through faith, into the dwelling place of God Himself.

In the midst of idol worship, demonic activity and superstition, the church of Jesus is growing in Ephesus. The Apostle Paul writes to these believers, encouraging them in their identity in Christ and sharing with them some of the mysteries of their inheritance.

God created man in His own image, giving him masculinity, strength and ability to work, protect and love well. The life of Jesus shows all men how to be a manly, how to love selflessly, live strong in faith, lead with courage and be the kind of father's we are to be.

God has always wanted to be close to His creation: those made in His image and made for fellowship with Him. As we are now His temple, with His Spirit living within us, our devotion to Jesus means that we exchange our ways for His ways. Our devotion to Jesus means an identity shift, a heart replacement and us choosing to live committed, loyal and fully devoted to Him and His ways.

The world and the enemy attempt to dilute and distract from the simplicity of our devotion to Jesus. In this message, Matt shares some ways that we can stay focused on Jesus.

Lead Pastor, Matt Peterson, teaches on the topic of Healing.

In this episode, Matt dives deep with Brian Simmons, former missionary, teacher, author and the lead translator for the Passion Bible. This episode is full of stories of God's love, miracles from Brian's life, as well as insights into the heart of God and what led him into translating the Passion Bible.

Brian & Candice Simmons

https://www.passionandfire.com/

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Knowing someone personally is much different than only knowing about them. The invitation of God to us is to know Him personally, and our eternity is based on this magnificent relational invitation.

In this message, Family Life Pastor, Brian Hedges, gives an overview of the gifts of the Spirit as outlined by Paul in 1 Corinthians 12 & 14, with biblical and personal examples of them in operation.

Guest Speaker, Scott Couch, shares in this Sunday morning message.

From God's grand finale of creation, to the body of Christ referred to as His Bride, women are highly valued and equal heirs of the great salvation Jesus provides. In this Mother's Day message, Matt shares not only about honoring the mothers among us, but to honor women in general as equal partners with incredible calling, purpose and value.

Family Life Pastor, Brian Hedges teaches on the topic of spiritual warfare.

During our semi-annual Outdoor Service, Matt shares part 2 of the Holy Spirit series, diving into the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This Spirit of God is the more of God, the nearness of God and God Himself dwelling in us to change us from who we have been into what He wants us to be.

Special guest speaker Brian Simmons is an author, former missionary and the lead translator of The Passion Bible. In this message, Brian shares about the heart of God and the incredible power of His mercy in our lives.

From the very beginning, God created and gave help to mankind. After Jesus finished His work on earth, His final action was to send the greatest help, the Holy Spirit to live within and aid mankind internally, as heaven's residing power within us. We have the help that we need to do all that He desires to do in the earth through us. The Helper lives inside of us.

One way that God's love is demonstrated to every person is how God has taken great care to plan and then protect the lineage of every person, down through the sands of time, through the great gauntlet of peril throughout every generation to bring them to the earth. Immense unseen resource and great love has surrounded the life of every person, bringing them safely to breathe air. Additionally, before they were born, Jesus died for every person so they could live eternally and has come personally to the door of every heart. Every life is a miracle and a...

Pastoral Care Pastor, Dawn Bray teaches on the topic of spiritual authority in God, and how to reclaim the areas where we may have given our spiritual authority away.

Easter Sunday is a celebration of the most significant events in history - Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus. Jesus stepped into human flesh and became the Lamb of God, dying for our sin and paying for our eternal life. He was then buried in a tomb and was dead for three days before resurrecting back to life in His earthly body and rising as a glorified Savior, defeating death, Hell and the grave. And He has invited us to follow Him and be filled with the same resurrecting Spirit that rose Him up.

God is love, love fulfills the law, and it is the love of God that we are invited to abide or live in daily. Apostle Paul describes what love is and what it is not. In this message, Matt goes through the "love chapter" of 1 Corinthians 13, highlighting the magnificent characteristics of love that are expressed through us as we choose to live the way of love.

Guest Speaker, Luke Humbrecht shares out of Ephesians on the theme of Making Space.

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Guest Speaker, Josh Young shares how the cure for fear is the revelation of God’s love. On the other side of fear is the life God created you to live.

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Love is an unfailing power, and we as followers of Jesus and hosts of the Holy Spirit have the ability to choose to love people in various ways. One of those ways is to celebrate and rejoice in and with others, particularly those in the household of faith.