Episodes

Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Nov 12_Journeys of Christmas: The Silence of Zechariah
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
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.

Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Nov 5_Formational Targets: Pilgrimage
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
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.

Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Oct 29_Formational Targets: Impact
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
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.

Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Oct 22_Formational Targets: Learning
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
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.

Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Oct 15_Seeds For A Future
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
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.”

Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Oct 8_People of the Way
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
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”.

Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Oct 1_Formational Targets: Community
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
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.

Sunday Sep 24, 2023
Sep 24_Formational Targets: Listening
Sunday Sep 24, 2023
Sunday Sep 24, 2023
Micah unpacks the second of Awaken’s formational targets, listening. “Hear O Israel the lord thy God is one". What does the voice of God sound like and what does your own voice sound like? Spiritual maturity is holding both and paying attention to the many ways God can speak to us.

Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Sep 17_Formational Targets: Liturgy
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Awaken begins a new series that seeks to unpack what healthy spiritual formation looks like. We begin with the importance of liturgy. Liturgy is ceremony and ordered intention. It is the work of the people, accessing collective memory and doing something together. Liturgy consists of sacred times that are set apart for the people of God throughout the year.

Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Sep 10_Nehemiah: Old Ways
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Chapter 13:29-31, Nehemiah ends with a very honest and sobering reality. They kick out the foreigners and Nehemiah reforms the practices of the sabbath, marriage and what happens in the temple. Why do we keep returning to this pattern? How might our interpretations change when considering this from a marginalized perspective?