Awake Us Now is a body of believers who: WORSHIP the Triune God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. Praise Him with joy and thanksgiving for He is God and He is good; WALK by faith in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the clear teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and the clear declaration of the Scriptures. Such a daily walk is a far cry from mere religion or "church as usual;" WITNESS to Jesus Christ our Savior in daily life situations. Take seriously His call to make disciples. ...
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Real People... Real God - Moses: Deliverance
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God's promise to deliver us is both in the future, and in the present time. What deliverance do you need today?
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Real People... Real God - Moses: Confrontation
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"The most foolish thing anyone can do is fight the only war you will never be able to win, and that is a war against God."
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 29
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This teaching is from Matthew 21:10-23 and continues a study of Holy Week - Jesus’ final week before His resurrection. In today’s story, people recognized Jesus as a prophet, but He was much more than a prophet! Over the next few weeks we will be exploring: The heart of the Gospel as the heart of God’s message of salvation, and that message is at t…
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Real People... Real God - Moses: Encounter
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God had an assignment for Moses, but Moses had objections for God. Sound familiar?
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Real People... Real God - Moses: Preparation
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God faithfully takes us through the difficult to prepare us to do the even more difficult.
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God’s word teaches endurance: how to face the difficulties and challenges of life. The Bible doesn’t tell us we will get through life without difficult days and trials. God’s Word gives us encouragement because God’s word is true, it is genuine and it speaks directly into our lives. Paul at Corinth is a story that shows us how God gives His childre…
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This week Pastor continues to explore locations of biblical history as we go over the location of the exodus. The exodus is at the heart not only of the Old Testament Scriptures, but also the New. The exodus story of the passover lamb foreshadows our Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ. The exodus is a story of God working in history and in these last days…
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The tale of Joseph is a great story. Yet there is more -- for all of Joseph points toward all of Jesus.
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Luke 16:1-13. Jesus warns that no one can serve two masters. Will you be devoted to God - or to "stuff?" This Parable of the Shrewd Manager is one of Jesus’ most controversial parables and one of the most difficult parable to understand. Join us a Pastor Dodge digs deep into this parable and pulls out some amazing nuggets of the wisdom Jesus is sha…
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Real People... Real God - Joseph: Forgiveness
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Until we forgive, we remain prisoners of our demand for vengeance. How can we gain release?
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Real People... Real God - Joseph: Restoration
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God can use your suffering, intense persecution, and even false accusation to work wonders.
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 28
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Matthew 20:17-34, Matthew 21:1-11, Exodus 12:3, Isaiah 62:11, Zechariah 9:9, and Psalm 118:25-26. Jesus lets us know that He is the fulfillment of all the Hebrew Scripture had predicted and all that the Father had dictated. Until we receive Jesus as Lord, this is only head knowledge. The disciples had heard Him speak what was coming multiple times,…
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Real People... Real God - Joseph: Adversity
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The story of Joseph, with its dysfunctional family and broken dreams, is a story that we can all relate to.
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God provides remarkable glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament. When Jesus spoke of being raised "on the third day," what would that phrase have meant to the people around him who were familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures?
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Peter and John were bold witnesses of the power and authority of Jesus. It is in Jesus’ name alone that we find Salvation. Peter and John’s courage in telling others about Jesus astonished others, and the people noted that Peter and John had been with Jesus, eyewitnesses that had spent time with Him. We, too, can spend time with Jesus and get to kn…
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Pastor and Jan have returned from a visit to Saudi Arabia, seeing sites that Westerners have not seen for thousands for years. In these last days, God’s Word is speaking loudly through recent discoveries in the areas of history, science, archeology and geography. Today, we explore one of the most powerful stories in the Bible: the Exodus. Geographi…
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God provides remarkable glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament. To understand what Mary Magdalene saw in the empty tomb that first Resurrection Sunday (John 20), consider the Ark of the Covenant and the part it played in the Day of Atonement - the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
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Luke 18:9-14, Romans 3:23, Isaiah 57:15, Psalm 51:15, 1 Corinthians 1:31, Micah 6:8. There is incredible danger in pride. God requires humility. Jesus told this story of two prayers - and the two pray-ers. One prayed about his own righteousness, the other prayed in humility and repentance. Which man went home forgiven? “To those who were confident …
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God provides remarkable glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament. Psalm 22 not only speaks to our hearts when we feel abandoned by God, but it also foretells the suffering of Jesus 1,000 years before those events took place.
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God provides remarkable glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament. In Daniel, the angel Gabriel announced the coming of Messiah in the Old Testament as well as the New, and foretold both the building and the destruction of the Second Temple.
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 27
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This teaching is from Matthew 19:13-30 and Matthew 20:1-16. This teaching starts with a focus on children. The disciples didn’t like that people were bringing little children to Jesus, these children were babies, infants, toddlers, and the disciples were thinking Jesus is trying to talk to the adults and they’re bringing kids to him, taking time aw…
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God provides remarkable glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament. In Genesis 6-8, can an object be a foreshadowing of Jesus? What does the Ark of Noah show us about both God's judgement and His saving grace?
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Throughout the Old Testament, God uses foreshadowings (a literary device that hints at what is to come) to point us to Jesus, the fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures. God provides remarkable glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament. In Genesis 22, why did God first tell Abraham to sacrifice his only son, and then provide a substitute sacrifice inste…
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This account takes place on Paul’s second missionary trip, on his trip to the city of Athens, A city that prided itself on knowledge and education, learning, culture and the arts. It was also a city filled with idols. As Paul looked around and saw all the idolatry it just really riled him up and he began passionately sharing the gospel message in t…
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The discovery of the ancient ruined city of Sodom proves that the Biblical account of this city is no fairy tale, and shows us a picture of the final judgment. In Biblical times, people did not understand what was coming nor heed the warnings, but these stories are real and they have a lot to teach us! Jesus pointed to the destruction of Sodom and …
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