Sermons for love-shaped Christian practice.
Awake Church Podcast is a teaching feed built around messages, encounter-night talks, and church instruction from Awake Church in Winston Salem. Its recent episodes move slowly through scripture, connecting biblical stories to practical obedience, spiritual authority, and the daily work of learning to love like Jesus.
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Awake Church Podcast preserves the teaching life of Awake Church in Winston Salem, especially sermons, encounter-night teachings, and occasional messages from named speakers. It is a church-room show. The sound is not built around banter or production polish, but around a speaker standing before a congregation and patiently making a spiritual case. Recent episodes return again and again to love as the central evidence of Christian life. The Way of Love series treats love not as sentiment, but as a practiced way of living: refusing bitterness, stopping the urge to keep score, giving generously, serving others, and letting God’s love move outward in action. The teaching often starts with a passage and then widens. A verse in 1 John becomes a discussion of righteousness, conscience, hatred, generosity, and the difference between following Jesus and following the patterns of the world. A resurrection message reaches back to Israel’s bondage in Egypt, Moses being drawn out of the water, and God remembering covenant when people cry out for deliverance. An encounter-night message on spiritual authority moves through Eden, the fall of Satan, dominion, prayer, worship, and the need to reclaim surrendered authority in everyday places like family and work. The show also makes room for testimony and visiting voices. Luke Humbrecht’s Breath and the Clay message brings in a creative arts community where faith and art meet, giving the feed a broader sense of worship, beauty, and embodied expression. Josh Young’s contribution continues the love series with a personal, relational tone grounded in connection to the church. Matt Peterson appears as the most recurring named speaker in its episodes, with a style that links biblical overview to direct pastoral application. The pacing is measured. Repetition is part of the method. Key phrases circle back until the point lands: love as compass, love as action, authority rooted in nearness to God, Christian life as participation in God’s love. This is a fit for listeners who want sermon-length formation rather than quick inspiration, and who are comfortable with charismatic Christian language about spiritual warfare, prayer, worship, and the work of the Holy Spirit.
Made for: For Christian listeners who want warm, scripture-saturated church teaching with a practical emphasis on obedience, prayer, love, and spiritual growth. It especially suits those comfortable with sermon pacing and charismatic language about authority, worship, and the Holy Spirit.
What sets it apart: Awake Church Podcast stands out for its patient, accumulative teaching style: passages are chained together, repeated, explained, and then pressed into daily life. The feed blends ordinary discipleship with encounter-night prayer and creative worship contexts.
Sermon messages, classes, teachings and trainings from Awake Church in Winston Salem, NC.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scripture, prayer, and practical action stay tightly connected in Awake Church Podcast's charismatic Christian teaching.
Awake Church Podcast moves easily between pulpit teaching, worship-night instruction, and Matt Peterson's guest conversations. Its center of gravity is practical Christian formation: readings from First John become lessons on active love, while teachings on spiritual authority…
Matt Peterson takes 1 John from "God is love" to your workday, where love needs hands.
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A ministry-focused teaching on spiritual authority, linking biblical dominion with prayer and daily life.
Authority sits at the center of this Awake Church teaching from a monthly encounter night, framed as something rooted in intimacy with God, life seated in Christ, and the recovery of what was yielded to the enemy.
A searching sermon links spiritual authority with scripture, compassion, and a life turned toward the eternal.
Spiritual authority comes through here as something practiced: searching honestly, abiding in God's love, and testing what is heard against scripture.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Dawn Bray teaches on spiritual authority, encouraging believers to reclaim authority from the enemy and advance God's kingdom from their position in Christ.
Matt Peterson discusses the Israelites' cry for deliverance from Egyptian bondage and God's preparation of Moses as a deliverer.
A sermon on living the way of love as redeemed children of God, filled with His Spirit.
Luke Humbrecht speaks at Awake Church about the Breath and the Clay creative arts community and his upcoming 20th wedding anniversary.
Josh Young continues the 'Way of Love' series at Awake Church, emphasizing love as the central theme of Scripture and the compass for life.
Matt Peterson continues a series on love, exploring biblical themes of God's chosen family and the importance of celebrating others.
In part four of the 'Way of Love' series, pastor Matt Peterson of Awake Church preaches through 1 John 4, focusing on the thesis that 'God is love' and that love is the defining mark of Christians.
Barry Byrne delivers a sermon at Awake Church on spiritual authority through God's love, drawing from Ephesians 3, Luke 13, and Luke 19.
Pastor Matt Peterson continues Awake Church's series on 'The Way of Love,' teaching through 1 John 3 and arguing that being called a child of God outranks even the enthronement of an earthly king, an image he ties to a ceremony he attended in Washington, D.C.
Matt Peterson introduces Paul Cox, a guest with a spiritual gift of discernment, on the Awake Church podcast 'Into the Deep'.
Dawn Bray teaches about experiencing God's presence and understanding the Father's thoughts toward you.
Scott Volk discusses God's heart for Israel and shares personal stories of faith and family on the podcast Into the Deep.
Dawn Bray discusses the internal belief system operating from truth or circumstances, urging listeners to examine what is scripted on their hearts.