Live preaching with practical spiritual force.
Awaken Church // AUDIO is a rotating platform of sermon-style messages from Awaken Church voices. Episodes move quickly from Bible passages into everyday pressure points: purpose, money, deception, courage, healing, discipleship, and building a life on faith.
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Awaken Church // AUDIO preserves the cadence of a live sermon platform. The messages are Scripture-heavy, personal, and built for response. A speaker may begin in Deuteronomy, Acts, Genesis, Matthew, James, or Revelation, then move quickly into the ordinary textures of life: childhood dreams, marriage dynamics, earthquakes, jury duty, conference week, money habits, or the mess left behind when something shakes. The tone is warm, but rarely detached. These sermons press toward decision. Kingdom language appears often, especially around discipleship, purpose, wealth, obedience, and the call to place God first. The show is comfortable with repetition. A phrase such as the way of the kingdom, the fullness of the cross, go, or built to last becomes a refrain before it becomes an application. Some episodes carry a strong teaching spine. Others lean on testimony and personal confession. Humor is part of the house style, including jokes about childhood ambition, exactness in storytelling, or the discomfort of real-life responsibility. The levity usually opens the door to a sharper turn. Speakers ask what foundation a life is built on, whether truth has become distorted by pride, and what it means to receive healing rather than only know doctrine. The feed also has a strong activation language. Faith is presented as outward-moving, not passive. Salvation, repentance, the cross, courage, discernment, and relationship with God are treated as practical realities rather than abstract ideas. Money is handled through a kingdom frame, with prosperity tied to stewardship and warning against misplaced affection. The preaching can become urgent. It includes prayers, calls to turn from sin, and language about being set free, waking up, and living with legacy in view. For listeners used to church services, that intensity will feel familiar. For others, it may feel pointed. The show’s appeal is its mix of everyday storytelling and high-conviction Christian exhortation, delivered by a rotation of voices with a shared Awaken Church sound.
Made for: Best for Christians who want full-throated church messages, Bible teaching, testimony, and direct calls to spiritual action. It especially suits listeners drawn to practical sermon application and altar-call language.
What sets it apart: The feed stands out through its rotating sermon platform, where different Awaken Church voices share a similar rhythm of story, Scripture, repetition, and response. It feels less like a studio teaching podcast and more like being dropped into the emotional arc of a live service.
Our vision and purpose is to be a church that is fresh, real, and powerful! Below is compilation of messages from Jurgen & Leanne Matthesius, our Awaken Church team, and other world-class guest speakers!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A direct sermon feed that turns scripture, testimony, and church teaching into practical calls for Christian commitment.
Awaken Church // AUDIO brings a rotating pulpit to the microphone, with scripture-led sermons that move quickly from biblical stories to decisions about relationships, calling, perseverance, money, and discipleship. Ps. Jenny Ervin, Ps. Matt Tuggle, Ps. Lisa Hundley, Ps.
A sermon calls money an unfaithful mistress; you might stop asking your bank balance for love.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A direct live sermon on discipleship, kingdom priorities, and the danger of loving money instead of using it.
The episode presents "The Way of the Kingdom" as a sermon about what comes after being born again: the church's calling is not only to see people saved, but to form disciples.
A steady message about weathering life with God and building something that lasts.
Built to Last makes a plain but sturdy case: a life weathered with God can still stand. It ties that claim to Emerge conference, steadfastness, communion, basic Christianity, and the reminder that God wants a relationship.
A live sermon turns broken cars, stalled plans, and late-night doubt into a steady call to disrupt the disruption.
The host's "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" shapes car trouble, slow work, planning stress, and late-night uncertainty into a sermon about staying on mission when distractions start to crowd the room.
A Kintsugi vessel gives this sermon a clear image for spiritual repair before it turns toward everyday Christian practice.
"Healing the Cracks" continues "The Potter's Love" by shaping Kintsugi into a warm sermon image for spiritual repair. A broken ceramic vessel, mended with lacquer mixed with real gold, gives the message its clearest center: the cracks remain visible, but they no longer signal…
A forceful call to stop stalling and answer God with a full yes.
The message presents Moses as a model for answering God without delay, and that urgency stays at the center: the call asks for a real yes. It moves briskly, leans on family history, and keeps returning to courage, purpose, and spiritual responsibility.
A Moses-centered call to stop hesitating and give God a wholehearted yes.
Spiritual identity is framed as a question of hesitation in "The Alpha Revolution (The Call)," as the sermon links Jesus' title as "the Alpha and the Omega" in Revelation chapter one with surrender, being born again, and the Holy Spirit living within believers.
A relationship sermon that turns painful self-recognition toward God's severe mercy.
This relationship-series sermon uses February's language of love to ask a harder question: what happens when desire outruns discernment. The preacher begins with Bruno Mars's "Marry You," then turns to the prodigal son, reading hunger, need, and consequence as the place where…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Jenny Ervin of Awaken Church delivers a sermon titled 'What's Love Got To Do With It?' as part of a February relationship series.
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In “Deliverance and the Kingdom,” Mike Connell connects Jesus’s ministry of deliverance with the kingdom of God in Matthew 12:28.
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This episode explores a biblical story from Genesis 22 about God testing Abraham's faith with his son Isaac, relating it to personal challenges and divine promises.
A pastor reflects on childhood dreams and how brain development in adulthood often leads people to abandon unrealistic aspirations.
She opens in a prayerful register.
The speaker shares a personal story about experiencing the 1994 Northridge earthquake while in college, reflecting on childhood fears of 'the big one' and the aftermath in their dorm room.
This episode introduces a new series called 'The Way' focusing on the fullness of the cross as a bridge from old to new life, emphasizing healing and receiving God's work.
This episode introduces a new series called 'The Way' focusing on following Jesus, analyzing Matthew 28:18-20 where Jesus commands disciples to go and make disciples of all nations with an outward-focused faith.
A pastor discusses the importance of fairness and truth in church events like Emerge Week, reflecting on his own past struggles with deception while standing for truth.
["Awaken Church\u2019s \"Can't Stop Won't Stop\" message opens with Boy Meets World\u2019s Vader and the repeated line \"wrestle me, boy\" to frame persistence.", "Josh O'Neill, named in the episode title, uses his wrestling story and Genesis 32 to explain why Jacob says, \"I will not let you go unless you bless me.\"", "The middle of the sermon moves through seven months of ministry pressure, an antifreeze leak, a broken transmission, and a rally night where 92 students showed up.", "The close turns to Ezekiel 37, \"dry bones,\" and a call to \"disrupt the disruption\" by staying focused on mission, prayer, and prophetic speech."]
He opens a new series called The Way.
The host continues the Potter's Love message through the picture of Kintsugi.
Pastor Marco Contreras delivers a sermon about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, focusing on the biblical account from Matthew 28 and emphasizing how this event distinguishes Christian faith.
A pastor shares his personal spiritual journey from childhood faith through adult disillusionment to rediscovering the gospel and salvation at age 29.
This Easter Sunday message uses the Japanese art of Kintsugi as an analogy for how God restores broken lives with greater value through forgiveness and spiritual healing.
Morgan Ervin shares his personal journey from feeling disconnected and dissatisfied with his identity to finding purpose and belonging through faith, discipleship, and community at Balboa Campus.