What is new at Awake?

Pastor Dodge is starting a NEW series!
SUNDAYS beginning June 29, 2025
9:30am CT LIVE (also on demand)
Pastor Dodge’s New Sunday Series is: “David …and the Heart of God.”

This series of messages is on one of the great heroes of the Bible and one of the most important characters from the Bible – David. The series will focus on how God’s heart had an impact on David’s life and how God’s heart can have an amazing impact on our lives, too. 

SUNDAY SERVICE – CLICK HERE. 
Pastor Dodge will conclude the current series “40 + 10” this Sunday.
SUNDAY, June 22, 2025
9:30am CT LIVE (also on demand)

Join us this Sunday (6-22-25) as Pastor brings the series 40+10 to an encouraging conclusion with a message entitled, “Practice.” We see in the scripture selection from Acts that believers “practiced” living out their faith by doing. NOT being consumed with the “How,” of how to do something, but rather they actually went about “Doing” things. Practicing their faith versus learning how to practice their faith. It’s a teaching with compelling insight that shows us some important lessons on truly living out our faith by actively practicing it in everyday living.

SUNDAY SERVICE – CLICK HERE. 
Pastor Dodge’s Fall Bible class
TUESDAYS beginning September 9, 2025
9:30am CT LIVE (also on demand)
Kings & Prophets: From Solomon to Jeremiah

This series looks at well-known and not-so-well-known stories from the Old Testament. Examining both good and bad examples, we will learn from both! These stories will have great impact on our lives as they show us how to live as followers of God. Additionally, Pastor shares new, exciting discoveries and ancient testimony all pointing to the faithfulness of God. Mark your calendars NOW for Tuesday, September 9th and plan to join us for a fascinating journey through 400 years of the kings and prophets of God’s people from Solomon to Jeremiah.

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Pastor Dodge’s summer Bible class
Every Sunday the next Bible class video will be made available for your ON DEMAND viewing at our website anytime throughout that week. Available completely at your convenience! Prefer a podcast? Every Tuesday at 10am the next teaching will be available at our website or at your favorite podcast platform.

The struggle against evil is real – we see that clearly in today’s world – it’s spiritual warfare. We are to resist the devil and the ways he works to drag us into the darkness and away from the Light. The armor of God gives us what we need to stand firm in our faith, to hold tight to the promises of God and to continue to resist the devil in God’s strength.

Video – CLICK HERE. Available every SUNDAY.
Podcast – CLICK HERE. Available each TUESDAY.
Wednesdays
9:30am CT LIVE (also on demand)
Bible in a Year continues throughout the summer

Bible in a Year – CLICK HERE.
Fridays
9:30am CT (also on demand)
The Two Year Study of the Gospels continues throughout the summer
While this is a two year study – it can be started any time. This summer would be perfect! Pick up with where it’s at right now or start from the beginning at your own pace – once a week or multiple times a week, you decide!

Two Year Gospel Study – CLICK HERE

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Grow Gracefully: Training

Despite the most rigorous physical exercise and training regimen, our bodies will age and, eventually, die. But there is a training – training in godliness – that lasts into eternity.

The spiritual diet we eat, the spiritual exercise we do and the spiritual training we choose affects our ability to grow graceful as Jesus’ disciples.

Training ourselves for godliness has benefits for today, tomorrow and for eternity. Spiritual training is timeless.

Train to be godly – Christianity is not a spectator sport. We can’t be a couch potato. We must be in training to be godly. This is training with eternal rewards – a crown of life.

Train yourself to be godly – What does godly training look like and how do we accomplish it?

1. DIET – We are what we eat – this truth is both physical and spiritual. Concentrate on what is true, good, honorable and noble and be in God’s word. Fill up on the food that truly nourishes, the food of His Word. We are to seek Him with our whole heart and that begins with our diet, as we take in God’s Word and allow that word to fill us up for the work He has given us to do. How’s your diet? Fill up on the good things of God.

2. EXERCISE – we need to exercise our faith, to practice what we preach, to live out what we believe, to put into practice what God has said. As we practice our faith we grow stronger. It’s like strength training with weights; the more we exercise and practice, the stronger we get. As we practice our faith we become stronger in our commitment to Christ: that is training in godliness.

3. A TRAINER – A personal trainer can really help with preparing to participate in a race and God provides a personal spiritual trainer for each and every believer, that personal trainer is the Holy Spirit, our Advocate. The Holy Spirit, our Personal Spiritual Trainer, helps to strengthen, encourage and equip us for godliness.

Why live a couch potato life as a follower of Jesus? Why be just a weekend warrior? Why not live as dedicated disciples, committed to Jesus and who are training ourselves in His strength for godliness? Let us finish the race well!

Training in godliness is the natural follow-through for a follower of Jesus.

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:3-8, 1 Timothy 4:7-8, John 14:26, 1 Corinthians 9:25, Ezekiel 33: 31-32

Check out the podcast here https://awakeusnow.libsyn.com/growing-gracefully-training

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Growing Gracefully in Joy

Unlike happiness, joy is not an emotion, dependent on particular circumstances. Joy is anchored in God, and through Jesus it is triumphant even over the sufferings of this world.

Growing Gracefully In Joy – We are living in a time of chaos and uncertainty, a time of unbridled anger on all ends of the spectrum and if ever there was at time that the people of God needed to remember and reflect the joy of the Lord, THIS IS THE TIME! 

This is a great time to be growing in joy as we rely on the Holy Spirit to empower and strengthen us every day and in every circumstance and situation. 

The Bible is full of joy, 440 times it is mentioned. God brings joy to the lives of His children. The joy of the Lord is our strength!

Pastor answers these questions:
Where does joy come from?
How is joy developed?
What nurtures joy?
What hinders joy?

Many of us are living in fear, wondering about the things that are coming. Fearful about what may happen in the coming months. But the Bible has clear teaching in the scriptures about Joy.

These are:
Joy…
Is anchored in God
Is a choice
Is sometimes hindered
Is not circumstantial
Is triumphant

Using a book by Jerry Bridges, “The Practice of Godliness,” Pastor sets forth several 

Aids to JOY…
1. Confess and forsake sin
2. Trust in God
3. Take the long-range view of life
4. Give thanks in all circumstances

God IS faithful! 

Scripture sources: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Hebrews 12:1-2, Luke 10:21, James 1:2

Check out the podcast here:  https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/15106736

Check out the video here: https://youtube.com/live/13ICXHcKVZo?feature=share

Check out the full Grow Gracefully series at our website: https://www.awakeusnow.com/grow-gracefully