Awake Us Now is an online ministry sharing the message of God's love through Jesus Christ, His Son. We have modeled our ministry after the early Acts Church and meet together in home groups. Using live broadcast and on demand video, we worship together each Sunday as one voice of praise and prayer across America. Through pertinent and vibrant teaching, we grow in faith and are encouraged to live each day in the power of the Holy Spirit that comes from a personal relationship with Jesus Chris ...
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Rev. Christopher Dodge Podcasts
To understand Peace, we need to explore it in its Hebrew form: Shalom. Shalom is so much more than our English word "peace" conveys. We will discover the deep meaning of this word and see why Jesus speaks of Shalom as something only He can provide!
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The Gospel of John Week 18 Scripture: John 13:21-14:6. We pick up with the rest of the story of the Lord's Last Supper that Passover evening. Pastor shares what the layout may have looked like at this meal. Where people were at around the table, that they were reclining vs sitting, that they ate with their right hands and laid on their sides restin…
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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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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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Kings & Prophets: From Solomon to Jeremiah - Week 8
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Pastor opens today's class with the words from Psalm 135:15-18 "The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them." We will see the …
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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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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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Questions - Week 3: Did Jesus Really Exist?
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Did Jesus exist? Is Jesus a myth? Is there any evidence that Jesus actually lived? Is there any evidence outside the Bible? The answer is absolutely, there's a great deal of evidence. Many are unaware of some of the very profound and powerful evidences for the existences of Jesus. Today we will take a look at the evidence for Jesus' existence, comi…
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This week, we explore Truth #23: Real Hope is found only in Christ! Many today struggle with a sense of hopelessness. But God gives us a promise of hope, a true "Living Hope" offered through Christ's resurrection (1 Peter 1:3-4). That promise is certain, it is found throughout His Word, and it has been demonstrated through history and in the lives …
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The Gospel of John Week 17 Scripture: John 12:27-13;30, Isaiah 6. Today's study takes us through an insider's view of the final hours before Jesus' arrest and crucifixion. We open with Jesus words in John 12:27-28, "Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. …
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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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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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We are to be strong in the Lord (with His strength), and to put on the full armor of God (His equipment), so that we are both prepared and equipped for spiritual warfare!
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Kings & Prophets: From Solomon to Jeremiah - Week 7
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Pastor opens with Psalm 33:12 "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance." Our class starts and ends with the story of the kings of Judah. But in between Asa's 40 year reign as a king of Judah and his son, Jehoshaphat's 22 year reign, we see the turmoil and chaos that is transpiring in Israel the northern …
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"Prayer in the Spirit" is about taking time in the presence of the living God and allowing Him to nurture, nourish, transform, and renew our souls. It is not about "give me, give me, give me," but about "mold me, shape me, use me."
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Why does Paul connect prayer with the Armor of God? Because when we "pray in the Spirit," we have something that front-line soldiers have always longed for: the ability to talk directly with our "Commander-in-Chief!"
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Questions - Week 2: Can You Explain the Trinity?
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Questions about the Trinity are often asked this way: • Is the word "Trinity" in the Bible? • Do Christians worship three Gods? • Was "Trinity" invented by the Church? • Isn't the notion of "Trinity" irrational? • Don't you think this is a minor issue? Pastor digs into the question of the Trinity by starting at the beginning, in Genesis 1:1 "In the…
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Did you know that the Bible is filled with consistencies. Note: that's not inconsistencies, but rather CONSISTENCIES! This shouldn't surprise us because consistency is at the heart of God's character. He says, "I the Lord do not change." But if the thought of God and the Bible as being consistant challenges you, then we hope you will join us for to…
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The Gospel of John Week 16 Scripture: John 11:54-12:26. Pastor begins today's class with stats and information regarding people falling away from faith. He shares that stats of the younger generation falling from faith show the reason to be that they don't see any evidence for having faith, stating that in college they found out evolution is a real…
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The Holy Spirit interprets and explains the Word of God (the Sword of the Spirit) so that we can use it to counter and defeat the attacks of the devil!
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The Roman soldier's helmet protected his head in battle; God's helmet of salvation protects our minds from the vicious attacks of the devil!
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God says: "Fear not"; the devil whispers: "Fear everything." Rather than try to face the "fiery darts" of the enemy in our own power, we should raise the shield of faith God has given us! Ephesians 6:16 http://www.awakeusnow.com
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Kings & Prophets: From Solomon to Jeremiah - Week 6
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This class will focus on Rehoboam the king of Judah, the southern kingdom, and his son Abijah as found in 1 Kings 14-15 and 2 Chronicles 11-13. They reigned 931-910 BC. In 2 Chronicles 12:1-5 we read that 5 years into Rehoboam's reign that he and his kingdom have abandoned the law of the Lord. Rehoboam rules from Jerusalem and is attacked by the ki…
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The "readiness that comes from the gospel of peace" gives us a solid platform on which to stand firm in resisting the devil's attacks. Pastor's shares about an archeological discovery of "Caligae,' the shoes worn by Roman soldiers in the day that the text of Ephesians was written by Paul. Some amazing analogies bring light to today's verse, 'and wi…
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Armor of God #4 - Breastplate of Righteousness
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The breastplate of God's righteousness protects us from the schemes and attacks of the devil as we live out our daily lives in Christ. Pastor teaches us the 2 meanings of righteousness in the Bible; The righteousness we receive through faith in Christ Jesus - a right relationship with God throuigh the gift of His Son. Righteousness is also the way …
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