Awaken Community Podcast
1) December 24_Advent as Resistance: Light
Pastor Micah delivers his last Christmas message to Awaken by taking a look at the theme of light throughout scripture. It's a promise in the midst of darkness, but what would it look like if we recei...Show More
2) December 21_Advent as Resistance: Love
Pastor Jenna discusses how love can be a response to fear and hate by looking at some of the complexities facing our city today. In the same breath, during this holiday season, how can we view love as...Show More
3) December 14_Advent as Resistance: Joy
Pastor Micah continues the Advent as Resistance series by looking at the complexity of joy in a world that seems absent of it.
4) December 7_Advent as Resistance: Peace
Pastor Micah traces the threads of two Hebrew words, shamar and shalom, as they appear throughout scripture. Their significance and connection can be found in the simple, yet deeply consequential ques...Show More
5) November 30_Advent as Resistance: Hope
Pastor Micah discusses hope as resistance to empire by looking at the complexity, difficulty, and necessity of hope in a world that seems lost in brokenness and violence.
6) November 23_Song of Blessing: All Around and Deep Inside
Pastor Micah closes out the series on the song of blessing by looking at the ways God surrounds us and can be found within us at all times if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.
7) November 16_Song of Blessing: Ears to Hear Their Loving Voice
Pastor Micah continues the Song of Blessing series by discussing the next stanza, May God give you ears to hear Their loving voice. He uses 1 Samuel 3:1-10 & Matthew 3:13-17 to unpack God's heart towa...Show More
8) November 9_Song of Blessing: Courage for Anything
Pastor Micah elaborates on the song of blessing series by discussing Joshua in the Bible. Joshua inherits an impossible task — leading people into the unknown. God’s command, “Be strong and courageous...Show More
9) November 2_Song of Blessing: May God Give You Eyes to See
Awaken begins a new series looking at the lyrics and significance of the Song of Blessing that we sing over the kids each week. Pastor Jenna kicks off the series by looking at the first stanza, "May G...Show More
10) October 26_Theology of Place: Jonah and Nineveh
Pastor Micah discusses Jonah 1:1-17 and the idea that God’s love extends even to the places and people we’d rather exclude.