Leadership Development with Ps. Jurgen Matthesius & Awaken Church

In this powerful message on pastoral care, we’re challenged to move beyond simply talking about people’s struggles and become carers who actively pursue their restoration. Through Jesus’ example, we learn that genuine care listens and leads, restores dignity and freedom, and acts with compassion and courage before the opportunity to help has passed.

In this message, we explore what it truly means to provide pastoral care in a world where genuine concern can easily be mistaken for control. Drawing from Jesus’ encounter with the demon-possessed men in the Gadarenes, we’re challenged to lead with balance—to act with compassion, pursue restoration, and be willing to walk through discomfort so that people can experience lasting freedom and become who God created them to be.

In this powerful message, we’re challenged to make room for what God wants to do in our lives by letting go of habits, relationships, and distractions that are keeping us from His purpose. Through the picture of “tables and altars,” we’re reminded that the church is called to be a heavenly church—one that pursues God through prayer, builds community, and brings the reality of heaven into the world around us.

As we close out the year, this message from Nehemiah explores the principles of building and rebuilding—starting with a renewed passion for God, a life of prayer and fasting, and an understanding of the authority He has given us. We’re challenged to move beyond simply doing the work of ministry and to recover our first love, deepen our prayer lives, and boldly build what God has called us to build.

In this powerful message, we’re challenged to help the next generation step into their God-given purpose rather than allowing fatigue, dysfunction, or disappointment to shrink the vision God has given us. Drawing from the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Rebekah, this message explores prophetic prayer, godly values, preparation, hospitality, willingness, and creating a compelling spiritual legacy that can be multiplied from one generation to the next.

We resist corporate culture, because it would be at the expense of something divine. Only the arm of God can build and expand. Tune into this power-packed message from Ps. Jurgen as he shares around laws that go around in the Kingdom.

On the brink of Ps. Jurgen’s trip back to Australia, he gives us some wisdom from observations he made while vacationing with God, rather than vacationing away from God.

The epitome of legacy looks like: you decreasing so that He may increase. Ps. Jurgen teaches us how to produce people who become mighty men in the earth—people who come in despaired, but are now flourishing and advancing the Kingdom of God. 

At who’s table do you sit? We should all sit at a table and serve a table—this is how we celebrate, live in gratitude, and pursue a legacy. There should be ministry and moments of impact at every table. 

“Definement” unpacks what truly sets the church apart: not clever words or slick programs, but the power of God at work. Drawing on Mark 16:17-20 and 1 Corinthians 2:4; 4:20 and personal stories, this message calls us to be more than attendees: to become ministers who cast out demons, heal the sick, release prophetic words, work miracles, and impart faith. Like brands that distinguish themselves by what they refuse to compromise, followers of Jesus are defined by Holy Spirit power that confirms the gospel. Expect vision, practical equipping, and a fresh charge to carry God’s power into everyday life.