
Awaken Community
Teaching from the weekly worship gatherings at Awaken Community. A safe place to journey with Jesus at the center.
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Jun 29, 2025 • 46min
June 29_The Questions of Jesus: Who Do You Say That I Am?
Guest speaker Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs addresses the question Jesus asks in Matthew 16, "Who do you say that I am?"

Jun 22, 2025 • 58min
June 22_The Questions of Jesus: Faith Beyond Zealots and Heretics
Judy Howard Peterson is with us for a part two discussion of last weeks message. This week she looks at Matthew 26:47-56, "Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me?". There are so many biblical interpretations of this passage leading to every different aspects of theology. How do we hold the reality that Judas was one of the twelve that Jesus specifically invited?

Jun 15, 2025 • 52min
June 15_The Questions of Jesus: Life Beyond Text and Tradition
Guest speaker Judy Howard Peterson brings a prophetic word in the midst of a tumultuous season across the globe. She addresses Jesus question in Matthew 12:1-14 "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath will you not take hold of it and lift it out?" She invites us to experience life beyond the text and tradition.

Jun 8, 2025 • 41min
June 8_The Questions of Jesus: What do you want me to do for you?
Awaken's own Cathy Solomon delivers her first Sunday morning sermon in a perfectly Cathy way. She addresses Mark 10:46-52 when Jesus asks the question to Bartimeaus: "What do you want me to do for you?"

Jun 1, 2025 • 37min
June 1_The Questions of Jesus: Do you love me?
Our guest speaker this week is a former Awakenite Jae Bates who unpacks John 21:15-19 by looking at the narrative of Peter's life and the ways he has denied those parts of himself that Jesus has invited him to lean into and accept. In what ways are we invited to step into who we truly are?

May 25, 2025 • 32min
May 25_The Questions of Jesus: Dr. Kelly Sherman Conroy
Dr. Kelly Sherman Conroy discusses John 5:1-9 and the question "Do you want to be made well?" She navigates the complexities of healing work as someone with indigenous roots and brings emphasis to how we hold, honor and move through sacred wounds in colonized spaces.

May 18, 2025 • 24min
May 18_Encounters: Feed My Sheep
Pastor Micah closes out the Encounters series by bringing us to John 21:1-17 and the moment Jesus meets Peter on the shore after resurrection. Peter, in the aftermath of his failure and shame is brought back into the mission Jesus invites all of us into; feed my sheep.

May 14, 2025 • 40min
May 11_Encounters: Some Worshipped, Some Doubted
Pastor Micah continues the Encounters series by looking at Mattew 28:16-20. The disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to see Jesus and when they saw him, some worshipped and some doubted.

May 4, 2025 • 39min
May 4_Encounters: The Road to Damascus
Pastor Micah continues the Encounters series with Acts 9:1-19 where Paul is confronted by Jesus on the road to Damascus. Micah discusses the context of Paul's conversion and the significance of Ananias's actions and our invitation to embody peacemaking in a similar way.

Apr 27, 2025 • 40min
April 27_Encounters: Mary at the Tomb
Awaken opens up a new series called Encounters where we look at examples of people's interactions with the resurrected Christ and unpack what it means for us as a community. Micah begins with John 20:11-18 and Mary's interaction with the gardener who is revealed to be Jesus.