Teaching

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Sermon on the Mount, Teaching

Guide to the Good Life

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.

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Annual Reflection & Vision, Teaching

2024 Reflection

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.

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Spiritual Authority & Gifts, Teaching

Power

“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

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Spiritual Authority & Gifts, Teaching

Worldview

“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.

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Strongholds, Teaching

Destroying

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.”

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Strongholds, Teaching

Identifying

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.”

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Strongholds, Teaching

Defining

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.

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Camino, Teaching

Reflection Sunday

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.

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Camino, Teaching

Journey

It’s 7:00am. The air is cool and crisp. We reach Santiago today. God lights up the sky and it’s beautiful. The first part of the path looks like a scene from Lord of the Rings where Bilbo Baggins passes through on a daily basis.