Awakening Church

Awakening Church
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This podcast will bring you into the life of Awakening Church. With weekly teachings from our lead Pastor, Jordan Boyce, and other special guests, you'll be inspired and encouraged in your spiritual walk, as we live to show Jesus to the world! Visit us online awakeningchurch.org

  1. 4d ago

    The Second Coming of Christ

    Join us as we explore The Second Coming of Jesus Christ through Revelation 20:1–6.Notes: Christ’s return promises a resurrection and Sabbath rest for His people. From creation to salvation to Revelation, God reveals a pattern of completed work followed by rest. In an always-on culture, practicing Sabbath helps us trust Him in the present while preparing our hearts for His promises for the future. And when sickness, suffering, and death touch our lives, Jesus’ words to Martha remain our hope: “I am the resurrection and the life.” A homecoming is coming, and every Christ-follower will be there. We can look forward to His return with expectant hope!Key Points:1. The Promised Sabbath• The pattern of the Sabbath reveals God’s plan: creation, salvation, and Revelation.• At creation, God rested on the seventh day after completing His work.• At the cross, Jesus declared, “It is finished,” before the Sabbath.• Revelation points to the coming millennium, a Sabbath for the earth when God’s people will reign with Christ.• Sabbath is a weekly reminder of the rest that is coming. God has given us a practice in the present that prepares our hearts for the promise of the future.• Choose to trust: turn off your phone, invite someone over, or walk with your family. Let the Lord refill you as you rest.2. The Problem of Death• The story of Lazarus brings us face-to-face with sickness, suffering, pain, and the hope we have in Jesus.• When Martha heard Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him. One day, we will meet Him too.• The Lord will descend from heaven, the dead in Christ will rise first, and believers who are alive will join them to meet Him.• Every Christ-follower will be present at that homecoming celebration, and we will always be with the Lord.3. The Promise of Resurrection• Jesus declared, “I am the resurrection and the life.” What He said to Martha speaks hope to us today.• Christ’s return promises life beyond death and a future with Him.• We look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.• Begin practicing God’s rhythm of rest today as you look forward to that day with expectant hope.Our prayer: “Come, Lord Jesus!” Scripture References: Revelation 20:1–6, Hebrews 4:9, Genesis 2:2, John 19:30–31, 2 Peter 3:8, Revelation 21:3, John 11:20–25, 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17, Revelation 22:20

  2. Oct 25

    Unhindered

    Pastor Jordan Boyce is preaching on Unhindered.📝 Notes: The book of Acts doesn't end with Paul set free. It ends with Paul under house arrest in Rome, chained to a guard, yet still preaching the kingdom of God "with all openness, unhindered." That final word reveals God's plan for His people. From persecutor to apostle, through a storm, a snake, and a chain, Paul's story shows that unhindered does not mean unopposed. Opposition is often a sign that God is moving. And from Roman emperors to modern-day China, the Church has outlasted every attempt to stop it. What God has decided to succeed, no man can stop.🕊️ Key Highlights:• The last word of Acts is "unhindered," akōlytōs, a word used in legal documents of the day, like a rental agreement, to mean freely, with nothing standing in the way.• Gamaliel warned the council: if this is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it. You might even find yourself fighting against God.• Paul started as a persecutor and ended as an apostle. God's plan is greater than man's sin.• William Tyndale's dying prayer was "Lord, open the King of England's eyes." Whatever God starts can't be stopped.• Unhindered does not mean unopposed. The calling causes the conflict.• On the road to Rome, Paul survived a shipwreck, shook off a viper, and turned house arrest into a captive audience.• With the things of God, opposition is an indication of advancement. Instead of asking "Why is this happening to me?" ask "God, what are You doing through this?"• Goliath had a sword, spear, and javelin. David had a promise: the battle is the Lord's.• "The Church is an anvil that has worn out many hammers." Theodore Beza• Jesus was betrayed, crucified, and buried, yet death could not hold Him. He is the ultimate picture of unhindered.📖 Scripture References: Acts 28:30-31, Isaiah 46:11, Matthew 16:18, Acts 5:39, Romans 8:31, 1 Corinthians 16:9, Acts 23:11, Acts 27, Acts 28:3-6, Acts 28:16, Galatians 6:9, 1 Samuel 17, Isaiah 43:19, Acts 2:24

  3. Oct 18

    Midnight Worship

    Pastor Jordan Boyce is preaching on Midnight Worship.📝 Notes: Paul and Silas had done the right thing, yet they found themselves beaten, chained, and locked in the innermost part of a prison. At midnight, they chose to pray and sing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening. Suddenly, an earthquake shook the foundations, opened the doors, and unfastened everyone’s chains. Their worship in suffering became a witness that pointed the jailer to Jesus. The darker the night becomes, the more meaningful the worship.🕊️Key Highlights: • What happens to you does not have to decide what comes out of you. • Midnight worship means trusting through tears, praising through pain, and crying out even when you’re confused. • True worship flows from who we are, not what is happening around us. • When you don’t know what words to use, use His Word. Read a Psalm, personalize it, and pray it out loud. • Never underestimate the witness of your worship. Your response to hardship can point your family, friends, and children to Jesus. • Choose worship even when the situation hasn’t changed, because He is worthy either way. • God can use the shaking to reveal what needs His attention, open doors for ministry, and bring freedom. • Paul stayed when he could have escaped to help someone else in their midnight hour. • What have you accepted as permanent that God wants to release? • Worship Jesus in hard seasons, trust Him with the outcome, and let your response point others to Him.📖 Scripture References: Acts 16:25–34, 2 Samuel 24:24, Matthew 5:11–12, Romans 5:3–5, Habakkuk 3:17–18, Hebrews 12:27–28, Revelation 3:8, Psalm 27:1, Psalm 42:2, Psalm 51:10, Psalm 55:22, Psalm 46:1

  4. Oct 11

    Ready For the Word

    Pastor David de la Cruz is preaching on Ready for the Word.📝 Notes: The Bereans received the Word with eagerness, examined the Scriptures carefully, and searched them daily. Their example shows us what it means to build our lives on God’s Word. They were teachable enough to receive something new and discerning enough to test whether it was true. As we celebrate Awakening Christian Academy’s first month, we’re reminded that Scripture belongs at the foundation of our classrooms, our homes, and our lives. If we want to grow in faith, we must grow in the Word of God.🕊️ Key Highlights:• The Word of God is the foundation we build everything on. It determines what we believe and how we live.• The Bereans demonstrated three qualities: eagerness, discernment, and diligence.• Don’t check the Bible against your opinions. Check your opinions against the Bible.• A humble, teachable heart allows God’s Word to challenge our beliefs and change our lives.• A closed mind receives nothing. A gullible mind receives everything. A noble mind receives eagerly and tests carefully.• Confidence does not equal truth. Charisma does not equal credibility. Viral does not equal verified.• Scripture interprets Scripture. Read in context and test what you hear against the whole counsel of God’s Word.• Sundays are a good start, but daily time in Scripture builds a lasting foundation.• Read the Word, discuss it, share it, memorize it, pray it, and put it into practice.• God’s Word is God-breathed, living and active, a guard for our hearts, and the sword of the Spirit.• Jesus is the Word who became flesh. Through Him, we receive forgiveness, peace, and new life.📖 Scripture References: Acts 17:10-13, Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, Psalm 16, Matthew 6:24, Acts 8:20, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Mark 4:15, Genesis 3:1, 2 Timothy 3:16, Matthew 5:9, Ephesians 6:17, Psalm 119:9-11, Hebrews 4:12, John 1:14, 1 Corinthians 11:28

  5. Sep 27

    I Want to Know Christ

    Pastor Jordan Boyce is preaching on I Want to Know Christ. 📝 Notes: In Acts 19, God worked extraordinary miracles through Paul. The sons of Sceva tried to invoke the name of Jesus, but they knew Him only as “the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Their encounter revealed the difference between knowing about Jesus and knowing Him firsthand. Paul’s prayer in Philippians 3:10 gives us a response: “I want to know Christ.” Knowing Jesus transforms who we are and gives us confidence to live as the people God says we are. 🕊️ Key Highlights: • Paul once persecuted Christians. An encounter with the risen Jesus changed his life. • The sons of Sceva knew Jesus’ name, but they did not know Him for themselves. • A secondhand faith cannot replace a relationship with Christ. • Transformation is a mark of knowing Jesus. • When the enemy questions your identity, remember who God says you are: forgiven, loved, redeemed, and His child. • God can work through ordinary people to reach others and bring Him glory. • Whatever the cost, our prayer is: “I want to know Christ.” 📖 Scripture References: Acts 19:11–17, Philippians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 1:27–29, James 2:19, Romans 8:33–37, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 1:13, 1 Peter 2:9

  6. Sep 20

    Acts of the Apostles | The Unknown God

    Pastor Jordan Boyce is continuing our Acts of the Apostles series with The Unknown God, preaching from Acts 17:22–34. Paul walked into a city searching for God without truly knowing Him and declared that the God they were looking for was closer than they thought. Wherever you’re watching from, join us as we look to Jesus, the One who makes the unknown God known. Paul stood in the heart of Athens surrounded by altars, idols, philosophy and religion, yet the people still did not know the God they were searching for. Pointing to their altar “To the unknown god,” Paul proclaimed that the God they were reaching for was not far from them. God uses the world around us to point us toward Jesus, and through Jesus, He reveals Himself. Jesus is the image of the invisible God. If you want to know what God is like, look to Christ. And the ultimate assurance of who Jesus is comes through the resurrection. Christianity ultimately confronts each of us with the same question Jesus asked Martha: “Do you believe this?” Key Highlights: • The Athenians knew gods, religion, philosophy and worship, but they did not know Jesus. • Creation points to the Creator, art points to the Artist and the shadow points to the One casting it. • God meets people in ways they can recognize. Our passions, relationships, creation, joys, struggles and questions can all point us toward Him. • Paul declares that God “is actually not far from each one of us.” Like feeling your way through an unfamiliar room toward the door, God is closer than we may realize. • The goal is not simply to know about God, but to know Him and be known by Him. • Jesus is the Man who makes the unknown God known. He is “the image of the invisible God.” • If you want to know the personality of God, look at the person of Jesus: the Father who runs toward the prodigal, the One who touches the leper, lifts the paralyzed and opens the eyes of the blind. • Jesus said, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” • Pilate presented Jesus to the crowd and declared, “Behold the Man!” The question for us is: Have you beheld Him? • When you are stung by sin, bitten by betrayal or caught in the stranglehold of shame, look to Jesus. • Paul points Athens beyond philosophy and religion to the resurrection. God has given assurance of who Jesus is by raising Him from the dead. • Christianity ultimately comes down to more than believing Jesus was a good man, moral teacher or prophet. Do you believe He is God? • Jesus told Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life,” and then asked her, “Do you believe this?” That same question remains for us today. • Jesus died, was buried and rose again. The resurrection changes every decision that follows. • If the tomb is not empty, we are fools. But if it is empty, we are free indeed.Scripture References: Acts 17:22–34, Colossians 1:15, John 14:9, John 19:5, Zechariah 12:10, Hebrews 12:2, John 11:21–27, Psalm 34:8

  7. Sep 13

    Acts of the Apostles - Made to Worship

    Every person was created with the purpose to worship God. The question is not whether we will worship, but what we will worship. In Athens, Paul encountered a city filled with idols and proclaimed the one true God who made heaven and earth. Humanity’s problem is that we exchange worship of the Creator for created things, placing our trust, identity and devotion in things that were never designed to sustain us. Idols promise fulfillment but ultimately produce emptiness and bondage. Jesus breaks the power of idolatry, tears down the altars that have taken God’s rightful place and sets us free to worship the Lord truly and rightly.🕊️ Key Highlights:• Every generation builds altars and idols. Ours may look like stadiums, screens, stock tickers, careers, possessions and ourselves.• We were created as image bearers of God, for relationship with Him, His glory and His delight.• Worship is more than music. It is the posture of a life oriented toward God as worthy of ultimate allegiance, trust, value and service.• We do not choose whether we worship. We choose the object of our worship.• Idolatry is exchanging worship of the Creator for worship of the created.• Whatever you worship becomes your master. Idols can only take and ultimately lead to bondage, never freedom.• Every idol asks you to climb up and prove yourself worthy. Jesus did the opposite: He came down to us.• Like Gideon tearing down the altar of Baal, Jesus tears down the idols in our lives and leads us into true freedom.• At the cross, the exchange is reversed: instead of us exchanging the Creator for the created, the Creator gave Himself for us.• An idol is a broken cistern that cannot sustain you. Jesus is the fountain of living water who gives true life.📖 Scripture References: Acts 17:22-31, Romans 1:22-25, Romans 12:1, Psalm 95:6, Jeremiah 2:13, 2 Peter 2:19, Genesis 1:26-28

  8. Aug 30

    Acts of the Apostles - Investing Into the Next Generation

    Pastor Jordan Boyce is preaching on Investing Into the Next Generation.📝 Notes: In Acts 16, Paul encountered a young woman being exploited by people who saw her as a source of profit rather than someone worth protecting. Paul was so deeply troubled by what he saw that his grief moved him to action, even knowing it would come at great personal cost. The same challenge stands before us today: the enemy hopes to gain FROM the next generation, but the Church is called to invest INTO them. Jesus values children for who they are right now, and we have a responsibility to protect them, disciple them, and create places where they can be formed by truth. Today, Awakening Church continues its legacy of investing into the next generation through the launch of Awakening Christian Academy.🕊️ Key Highlights:• Jesus values children not simply for who they will become, but for who they are right now.• Innocence, wonder, and joy are qualities Jesus tells us to recover, not qualities children need to outgrow.• Paul was deeply troubled by the exploitation of the young woman, and his grief overflowed into action.• Many times, doing the right thing is also doing the costly thing.• Don’t just complain or campaign. Sacrifice. Act. Protect.• The enemy can claim territory wherever he is not challenged. Whatever you don’t contest, you concede.• Education is territory worth fighting for. We need godly teachers, Christ-centered ideas, and unashamed Christian young men and women.• The enemy hopes to gain FROM our children. We are called to invest INTO them.• Awakening Christian Academy continues a long legacy of investing into the next generation from this house.• Our goal is to raise $250,000 to help launch the Pioneer Year through classroom construction, scholarships, teachers, curriculum, security, and facilities.• Investing in the next generation is investing into eternity.📖 Scripture References: Acts 16:16-20, Proverbs 22:6, James 1:27, Matthew 18:3, Psalm 68:5, Acts 20:35, Matthew 6:19-21

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    Awakening Church
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
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