Awaken Westchester Church

The narrowing of your world

In Matthew 15, Jesus healed an age old curse that had led to prejudices and stereotypes directed toward the Canaanites. By doing so, he was expanding the worldview of his disciples, offering them a bigger view of God.

Listen as we look at how the technologies we use today can narrow our world and deepen the prejudices we hold. Then, discover 4 ways to break free into a larger view of God and the world we share together. 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Listen as Joe Mrugalski prepares us for the Christmas season by looking at the incarnation of Jesus and why we celebrate Christmas.

Your attention please

Our time is a precious, limited resource. But have we given thought to how we're spending our time and what we're giving our attention to? Listen as we explore how the technology we use is set up to capture our attention and how that affects us.

You as the product

As we continue our technology series, Dave shows how the services we use are set up in a way to extract a profit from us and turn us into products exploited for others' gain.

 

Link to video shown: interview with Sean Parker, first president of Facebook

The algorithmic journey of life

This week, we begin a new series on our relationship with technology.  Listen as Dave talks about the algorithms that guide our lives and the danger they can pose to how we value ourselves and what we perceive as valuable.

Seeing life through God’s eyes

Listen as guest speaker Stephen Bailey looks at the ideas of identity, community, and purpose through the lens of the Jonah story.  

Rotten or ripe?

This week, we conclude our "Fruits of the Spirit" series by looking at the final 3 fruit: faithfulness, gentleness, and set control.  Listen as Dave offers one final practice for how to allow these fruits to flow through our lives.

By endurance we conquer!

This week we look at the next 3 fruits of the Spirit: patience, kindness, and goodness.  Join us as Dave looks at the story of Ernest Shackleton to show how we can allow these 3 gifts to flow through us in greater ways.  

A few notes on grateful living

Love, joy, and peace - the first 3 fruits of the Spirit.  Listen this week as we look at how an intentional practice of gratitude creates space for these ways of living to grow within us.  And be sure to join us for our 30 day practice of gratitude!

Empty your cup!

Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self-control. Who doesn't want more of these qualities? As we begin a series on "the fruits of the Spirit" listen as Dave talks about how we can create space in our lives to receive these 9 gifts of the Spirit.