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Dec 03_Journeys of Christmas: Nazareth to Bethlehem

Luke 2:1-7, Joseph & Mary journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem. What happens when home no longer feels like home? Micah discusses the difficulty of leaving places that feel safe like home and the beauty of the spiritual journey through the process.

Nov 26_Journeys of Christmas: The Human Mary

Luke 1:26-45, Mary journeys to visit Elizabeth and come to grips with the reality that she was going to bear the Christ. Micah invites to consider the human Mary, the woman who carried a child out of wedlock in a patriarchal society where that would have been a tremendous risk and danger.

Nov 19_Journeys of Christmas: Joseph’s Acceptance

Matthew 1:18-25 - Joseph goes through a journey that invites him to accept what the Holy Spirit has done in Mary. He accepts Mary as his wife and discovers the difficult role he must take as a righteous law abiding man in a culture whose laws might challenge his convictions.

Nov 12_Journeys of Christmas: The Silence of Zechariah

Luke 1:5-22 & 57-64, Awaken kicks off a new series preparing us for the season of Advent. Micah starts with Zechariah’s journey from unbelief to belief in the Angel’s words about his son named John. He highlights the significance of a man that is silenced and what happens in the space that created.

Nov 5_Formational Targets: Pilgrimage

Micah introduces pilgrimage as the final target in the Formational Targets series. This is an invitation to inhabit our lives in a particular way that includes awareness and intention about the spiritual journey happening all around us. 

Oct 29_Formational Targets: Impact

Micah takes us through our next formational target - Impact. How do we choose to invest our time, energy, and resources individually and as a community? We’ve been entrusted with working and tending to one another and the world around us.

Oct 22_Formational Targets: Learning

Micah brings us back to our formational targets series by emphasizing the importance of learning through the journey of faith. He highlights the significance of engaging different perspectives, understanding lenses that inform those perspectives, and maintaining a posture of curiosity in our day to day lives.

Oct 15_Seeds For A Future

Genesis 1:11-13; 26-28; 31 - Steve Wiens talks through how God created trees to bear fruit and keep bearing fruit the same way humans were made to plant seeds and bear fruit. “Awaken is uniquely called in this season to plant seeds for a future where many will be nourished and given rest underneath the branches.”

Oct 8_People of the Way

Stephanie Williams O’Brien takes Awaken on a journey through Mark chapter one and the deeper meaning of Jesus inviting the people to repent and believe - “turn toward God and step into the new Kingdom reality”.

Oct 1_Formational Targets: Community

While many are at Covenant Pines this weekend for the church retreat, Micah continues our series on the formational targets and this week he discusses the importance of sacred community in our efforts to grow closer to God and one another.