Jesus came to rescue us from the world that we’ve created out of selfishness and contempt for others. Jesus came to deliver us into communities of love and respect through righteousness, defined as doing right by God and others.
This week we start our new Sermon on the Mount series beginning with the “Beatitudes” (Matthew 5: 3-12) in which Jesus explains who experiences The Good Life or blessed life. By the poor in spirit, those who mourn, and the meek, Jesus draws a contrast to the powerful, comfortable.
Every year I say the same thing, “This year went by really fast!” I have this theory that time moves faster in the tails of your life: as a parent, aunty or uncle, or grandparent, you marvel at how fast the children in your life grow and when you’re in a mature stage of life as I’ve personally witnessed caring for kupuna, you experience how quickly the kupuna in your life age.
“The supernatural is something you are. It is something that should be natural.” Pastor Dean Fujishima. And there it is yet again: James 4: 7-10.
“Be a people who are unafraid to engage in the spiritual realm, the truth is: Satan is much more fearful of you than you should be of him.” Pastor Shea Takazono
“The spiritual realm is real. It powerfully affects us.” Pastor Cal Chinen. The spiritual realm has superiority and an eternal nature over the physical world with a profound influence on a particular situation or person.
The definition of a stronghold that we’re using from Dr. Ed Silvoso is: “Mindset
impregnated with hopelessness that forces us to accept as unchangeable situations we know are contrary to the will of God.”
The definition of a stronghold that we’re using is: “Mindset impregnated with hopelessness that forces us to accept as unchangeable situations we know are contrary to the will of God.”
Welcome to our new series “Recognizing & Destroying Strongholds.” The content of this series we credit to Dr. Ed Silvoso, a man of God who has poured so much into our local denomination and who we owe a great debt for sharing his time and God-inspired wisdom with us.
This is the final leg of our Camino de Santiago. We take a bus from Santiago to Finisterre and Muxia on the Western coast of Spain. Finisterre is the location of the 0.00km marker and Muxia is where land meets the ocean.