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Welcome to the sermon podcast for Daybreak Church Hawaii. Daybreak is a Jesus-centered church who gathers to worship weekly on the Windward Side of Oahu. You can find out more about us at https://daybreakhawaii.church
God's people were reminded of how God is present and close, working miraculously to go before them.
Rahab's great faith reminds us how God works in the biggest messes of our lives to make something beautifully redemptive and representative of His great grace.
Just as God prepared Joshua for the work where he was called, God prepares His people to step out in faith to make much of Him, mirroring the light of Christ to others.
We look to the promises of God to Joshua as a reminder that He is ever-present with us working for our protection and prosperity.
We begin our new series, looking to God's faithfulness to keep His promises to His people, drawing them close to Him and never forsaking them.
As we look to the King who has come to reign one day, we can be encouraged knowing that this King has come to renew the broken spaces and to restore relationship with Him.
As the wise men followed God's direction without delay, our call is to behold Him as King and to worship Him as Lord.
God's people were promised the arrival of a "Shepherd King", who would live and walk among us and who offers us peace beyond what we could ever find for ourselves.
Jesus is the King Who has been from the beginning our only hope and rescue in salvation.
As Christians, we are freed up to live generously, giving back to God freely of our time, treasure, and talents.
As Jesus went to the cross for our sin, we are called to take up the cross daily. We must resist our desire for instant gratification and selfishness, and lay down our lives to serve others.
As believers, we are called to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and to follow Jesus. In this sermon, we explore what it means to deny ourselves, going before God with open hands.
As believers, we are called to be "on-mission" as disciples, growing and learning in Him, who make other disciples, sharing the testimony of the heart-change He has madein us.
We are united in Christ as His body to serve in harmony, using our diverse giftedness for His glory.
Spiritually healthy community means that we welcome others in as Christ has welcomed us, walking together through growth and hardship by God's grace.
The body of Christ matters as the Church together is God's plan for our purpose and fulfillment in this life.
We finish our series in I Corinthians being challenged to prioritize the ministry of God, to stand firm in our beliefs, and to have everything we do be rooted in and shaped by love.
If we are willing to give our lives to knowing Christ & seeing Him be known, our labors will not be in vain.
As believer, we belong to the One and are ordered by the One Who has made all things and Who has made a plan to restore us unto His image.
The Resurrection gives us hope in the brokenness of this present world. Believers can live in the victory of His Resection and let this truth shape the way we see our ourselves and our world, and how we interact with others.
The promise of the resurrection is a lifetime of new starts - a life not weighed down by sin, but lifted up by God's grace and His promises to us.
We can stand sure-footed in turbulent times because of the salvation we have in Christ.
As believers, Paul assures us that there is never a time when we are not present with God. Therefore, when the stakes are high, or when we grieve, we have a hope that matters because He will never lose us or forsake us.
Paul tells the Church to love one another by the grace of God and to neighbor each other well through our differences.
Paul bookends this chapter, directing believers to pursue love and to earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but to do so decently and with order so that the Church may be edified.
Paul says that the picture of spiritual maturity is having faith in action, evidenced by our love for others and service to one another.
Paul casts a vision for the Church too be many members of one body, serving one another together in the giftedness we have in His Spirit.
As believers, we have an intentional purpose and gifting in the Church that we might use to serve and strengthen one another in the Spirit.
The Spirit gifts us with spiritual gifts that are designed to help us function together on unity through mutual service to one another.
When we come to the Lord's table, we come with our brokenness, worthy by the work of Christ on the cross.
We are to be lead by the love of Christ to live freely in Him, without distracting from the Gospel being heard and known.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made, God has created us with order, intention, and great purpose.
We are given the freedom from our own insecurity through Jesus, who empowers us to love others.
Paul challenges Christians and the idols to which they cling to come before God with open handset allow Hi freedom to work in and change our hearts and lives.
You are not alone! God is faithful- He has given you Christ, and through Him also promises to provide you with clarity, strength, and a way out of every temptation.
Paul compares the Christian life to an athlete that runs a race, in that Christians are to live and grow intentionally, in the hope of eternity.
In order to be all things to all people, Paul realized that he needed to be willing the change his methodology for the sake of sharing the Gospel, never sacrificing principles and truth.
God gives us a vision to be a people who prioritize sharing the Gospel as the most important part of our work life.
The power of Christ that enabled Paul in his ministry is available to us, strengthening us to love and serve boldly in the freedom Christ brings
Are we willing to be loving to fellow believers, even at the risk of setting aside our own freedoms, in order to love them selflessly as Christ loved us?
If we are willing, God will use us in our present life station to impact others within our sphere of influence for Him.
When it comes to our marriage or singleness, healthy sexuality comes from godliness and our willingness to submit fist to God and follow in His ways.
We are created with a glorious purpose, and, as such, our bodies and our souls are intertwined and are not our own.
Paul discusses how our bodies are created in God'S image and are, therefore, significant and meaningful, and how this should shape the way we view our bodies and the freedoms we have through grace.
As we celebrate Christmas, we praise the One who has made God known and has brought us to Him.
God extends to us new life through His Son Jesus Christ - changed by God and finding freedom
God has faithfully extended us the grace of being able to know Him and His truth through the voices and testimonies of those that have gone before us and through the presentation of His Word.
Jesus is the light and brings life into the world, and darkness will not prevail against Him.
Generosity starts with true contentment that is not dictated by circumstances, but trusting in God's provision for us.
We have been cleansed and changed to be people who seek reconciliation in the same way that Christ has reconciled us.
Paul clarifies boundaries for Christians to live out for or against God and His teachings both outside and inside the Curch
When it comes to community and discipline in the church, our goal is to be as a loving community, desiring to guard and restore the hearts of other believers.
Paul calls the church of Corinth to follow him as he follows Christ and leads them to repentance through Christ,
Christian Leadership is a unique profile of strength through servanthood to Jesus, a foundation of faith in the Gospel, driven by the hope of heaven. Join us as we explore leadership in action.
God is both passionate and protective of His church. He has given believers in Him all things in a spiritual sense through Jesus, allowing the church to live bold, faithful, and full of hope in His goodness.
Jesus is our sure foundation, so how we build our life matters. God gives us all we need to walk faithfully in the works He's prepared for us beforehand.
God cares that delivers grow in Him, that they would have unity in the Church, and spiritual maturity in their relationships with each other.
Through the Holy Spirit believers have "the mind of Christ," which gives us a glimpse of God at work in all the normal spaces of life.
We are equipped by the Holy Spirt to see and believe who Jesus is and to let the define the way we live out our faith.
The Wisdom of The Cross is Seen Through History, Eternally A Part of God's Plan, and Revealed Through The Holy Spirit in Our Hearts.
The power of the Gospel does not lie in the wisdom of mankind or their eloquence of speech, but to draw people to God and change lives.
Paul suggests that when the Church takes focus away from Christ and His work on the cross, we undermine its power in the lives of believers.
Paul reminds the Church that Christ is faithful to bring us into fellowship and confirms us to Himself as our Lord.
From the opening of Paul's greeting to the Corinthian Church we are called by God, sanctified by Christ, and given new life with purpose in Him.
Christ points us to a life of wisdom with God as our King, showing us the way to walk in step with with the wisdom He's formed into all of creation.
We are created in the image of God too be relational beings, drawn into relationship with God through His grace and enriched through healthy friendships with others.
As we submit to Christ, He will shape us into people that are patient and kind, not captive to our sin and anger.
Christ is our teacher to walk in humility and grace, seeing ourselves accurately, being teachable, and counting others greater than ourselves.
Proverbs teaches us that we are blessed to be a blessing to others, growing in our trust in Him to keep us and sustain us as we share freely the gifts and wealth He has provided.
Our mouths are the gateway to our hearts, and a wise person will seek to speak life rather than death,
Christ-Centered Learning is not self-seeking, but is like a treasure to be uncovered as we are drawn closer in relationship with Him.
We are created to be humbled in our weaknesses and our shortcomings, looking to Christ who is at the center of all things
These proverbs remind us that God is sovereign over the world and He ultimately meets us in what we individually do.
Peter reminds us of God's faithfulness and the living hope He offers us through the finished work of the cross.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life; if we live in His resurrection, we have a hope and an ongoing comfort in life.
Paul expresses great joy in the community of believers that have taken the things they have learned and see, and have lived them out by caring for him and by sharing in his troubles.
Paul proclaims his hope to know God more by growing in his relationship and spiritual maturity - not always looking behind, but pressing forward in the hope of future glory with Christ
Paul sets an example of a life redeemed to show the glory of God. Despite his accolades, he insists that the sole value in his life is the way Christ shines through. This is good news for us: that we need only to seek to know and glorify God!
Paul challenged the Church to live in today, looking ahead and growing in our faith, as we work out our salvation and seek to do God's will in our lives.
Our guest preacher, Kealii Aquino, challenges us to follow Christ's example of serving others, being led by the Spirit to unity within the Church.
Paul admonishes believers that our glory is to be in Christ, glorifying Him and living in the hope He has given us through the cross.
Paul demonstrated the importance of sharing the Gospel by focusing on the advancement of the Gospel despite his improsonment and prosecution.
Paul shows us that there is another way to live rather than only ourselves. If we confess our sin, God is faithful to forgive us, and through the Spirit, we are empowered to grow in knowledge and love to the glory of God.
Paul begins his letter to the Philippian church, offering a vision of how to live out our faith humbly and joyfully as fellow partners in the Gospel.
The redeeming grace of God is not only the finished work of redemption that Christ completed by being born into this world and dying on the cross, but He also continues to bring light into the dark places of life.
Jesus was born during the unstable, chaotic times of Herod, yet serves as a reminder of how od is working through all human events to bring redemption in brokenness.
Good graciously works through those outside of His family to reveal His Son miraculously to the world.
The hope of Immanuel is that Jesus came in the flesh to save, restore, and be present among us.
Advent is a time to reflect on how Christ came as the fulfillment of God's promise, and through Him, we are part of an eternal Kingdom and family in which Jesus stands on our behalf.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus cautions us three times to not be anxious, but to consider how he cares for the Creation daily and to seek His Kingdom.
We are reminded that Christ should be our ultimate treasure and to be generous with what God has given us, because we serve a God who has been abundantly generous to us.
Because of the Gospel, we are marked as people who are redeemed and fully forgiven. This undeserved gift of forgiveness is a cornerstone in our identity, our walk, and our response to those around us. We have an assurance of our complete, unfailing salvation and a freedom to approach God, as well as a gift of grace and salvation to people in our lives.
We are reminded to seek God daily with our cares and burdens because He is our Provider and desires a personal relationship with us.
Jesus offers an example of how we should pray and begins with a reminder that God's holiness should be the center and His glory should be the focus of our lives
Because of the Gospel, we can come to God confidently with our prayers - not with vain showiness or empty reputations, but with sincerity and love to our Father.
Jesus offers a warning for when we give, pray, or fast, the it should not be apart us individually; the focus should be on the personal relationships involved in each.
We are called to be a people who live out the love of God in the way that He has loved us, and the same Spirit that was with Christ as He prayed on the cross, empowers us to love others in the same way.
Jesus teaches us generosity in grace as a way of life , instead of seeking revenge when others wrong us.
The Holy Spirit empowers us to live truthfully with others - being honest in our words, open in our relationships, and generous in our dealings.
Jesus came to give life and freedom from the bonds of sin, wherein our hearts struggle, giving us hope from guilt and shame, and giving us a new beginning through His grace.
Anger can be a powerful force in our hearts. When we give a place to anger, it can take hold and disrupt our relationships. However, God can work in us to grant peace in the place of that anger.
Jesus teaches how He fulfills the purpose of the law and prophets of the Old Testament and gives us what we need to follow from a heart level.
Jesus spoke on the mount about how His followers have the power of being salt and light in the world, pointing others to Him.
We know that we, like Jesus, will be persecuted while on earth; we can have joy that through this are drawn near to God and given the gift of a greater hope for out reward of eternity with God. Because of this perspective, we can fix our eyes on Christ, knowing that He has suffered in our place and shown us the good news of the Gospel.
We live in a world that is rife with conflict. The good news for those who have been adopted into the family of God is that through Jesus we have been given both a way and example to be peacemakers: not by avoiding conflict, but by seeking love and restoration, since we have received the most peace of all.
When we can mourn the brokenness in the world, God begins a transformation in the hearts of believers where we can focus on Him and see glimpses of His goodness at work around us.
Seeing and acknowledging our sin prompts us to be merciful and show compassion to others as sinners in need of God's grace.
We land on the central beatitude, on which those before and those after hang, challenging believers to long for God's righteousness and will be seen to share the heart of God with others.
Pastor Walt relates the story of one of the meekest men on earth to discuss our next beatitude of how the meek shall inherit the land.
We are happy when we recognize sadness in life and can see the goodness of God and His comfort in it.
We are challenged to find our happiness in Christ as we are assured that blessed are those that come before our loving God with nothing to offer but ourselves.
God is both powerful and beautiful, and His promises are time! As a response, we worship Him through confession, reflecting on His grace and sacrifice, and believing that His Gospel is for us.
We worship God in spirit and in truth, recognizing that God is God, that we are not, and that God is worthy of our praise.
The life of Joseph shows us that despite how dark the season in which we are living proves to be, God will redeem that season because He is sovereign and He is good.
As believers, the Holy Spirit empowers us to live peaceably with others, genuinely sharing life and community with other believers, and graciously extending kindness to those who treat us poorly,
As Jacob blesses Joseph's sons, we see a beautiful picture of our God who is faithful throughout generations and throughout brokenness to shine His love and grace.
The life of Jacob reminds us of the ephemeral nature of life in a broken world. The care of God (and his faithful covenant-keeping) breathes life into our bones. And the life, death and resurrection of Jesus offers us eternal life, a place with him forever.
Joseph makes his true identity known, revealing God's plan to use his brother's actions to preserve life and demonstrate God's common grace to all.
Joseph doesn't need revenge because he trusts God's plan rather than taking all into his own hands.
Providence saturates the story from start to finish. We are not at the mercy of karma or fate; providence is God's mercy for us to inject hope in the middle of a story with no end in sight.
As Joseph watches the fulfillment of God's promises and the consequences of his brothers actions, we see the life-altering significance of the reconciliation that is possible because of the faithfulness of God. Through this unfolding, we see the power of God to heal, the invitation of followers to repent, and the freedom to then receive and extend mercy.
The challenges and hardships of life do not have to define us. We are shaped by God's grace and mercy as He works in and through our lives.
From Joseph being brought up from the dungeon to a place of prominence in Pharaoh's court, we see that we serve a big God who sees us and who does not waste any part of our lives in His story of redemption.
Though he was forgotten by his family and acquaintances, Joseph remained steadfast, trusting in the goodness and faithfulness of God to remember him through trials.
We look at the providential guidance of God in Joseph's life, guiding him in righteousness and wisdom, empowering him to lead others well.
As we reflect on the life of Joseph, we can see God's sovereignty and redemption, working in every broken place to bring about His will and redemption.
In our first Family Sunday of the new year, keiki are invited to join us in worship. God came to Jacob in his exile to remind him of His great love for His people and His ...
We look beyond the man, Joseph, to see the faithfulness of God to work His will through a broken family dynamic of deceit and stolen blessings.
We are introduced to Joseph's father and uncle and we can see how God works His will contrary to human plans and in spite of human brokeness.
We finish part two of our vision for the new year of being rooted and established in Christ, reminded of Hs enduting promise and covenant to His people.
As a church, our vision for the new year is to see that we are rooted and established in Christ, Forming us into a people of thanksgiving.
Though life may be completely disrupted around us, Jesus comes to grow our faith and establish peace in our hearts.
Because of Jesus' humble entry into a dark and dirty world, we can respond in worship to the Good News that no one is too far to receive truth.
We see an example of God's great purpose in the lives of His people through the birth of John the Baptist, who loved to point others to the coming Christ.
We share in the same blessedness as Mary when we open ourselves to be servants for God's glory; He takes the brokenness and shines the light of redemption through us.
We look to the Message of God to Mary about the birth of Jesus that He knows and plans the seasons of our life, and He is folding them onto the larger scheme of redemption and the human story.
We are thankful for the goodness of God to His people as He draws wandering and rebellious hearts towards Himself
As the Church, we are sealed and empowered by the Holy Spirit to be witnesses in the world and be a picture of God's Kingdom.
Jesus offers us rest and satisfaction when we set aside the weight of inner rigor to instead spend time in His presence as learners.
Paul instructs the Church to look to Jesus as the example of how to serve and love one another in humility and grace.
We look at what it means for the Church to be a family, experiencing and sharing the abundant love and grace of our Father.
As worshipers of Christ, we are being reshaped in God's image so that the worldview of self-interest and personal gain changes to giving our adoration and attention to the only One worthy of our praise
We complete our series in the book of Galatians, being reminded that we can boast rightly in Christ and in His finished work on the cross that has brought us redemption and has placed us in His family.
The Church is called to live in a posture of humbleness and gentleness toward others, and to continue to do good and endure in faithfulness, keeping Christ at the center of all things.
As we keep in step with the Spirit, we are transformedin ways that allow us to experience a deeper love of God, a greater sense of relief, and a richer joy in our faith.
The Holy Spirit, who discerns the thoughts of God and who dwells now in us, leads us and transforms our hearts to be more like Christ as we grow in relationship with God.
The work of Christ in the hearts of believers deepens our capacity to love and cultivates joy and peace in our lives.
We are reminded that our motives matter - we minimize the work of Christ when we turn to our works to mark our righteousness; we must turn from this false doctrine and the false teachers who proclaim anything but Christ.
Paul reminds the believers of Galatia to put aside their old ways because God, in His grace, has given freedom from the chains of our sin and called us to new life.
God seals us with the promise of inheritance that He made to Abraham, welcoming us as joint heirs through Christ.
God's promise to Abraham of "I will" was fulfilled through Christ to all believers, bringing a collective group of backgrounds and cultures into a unified, singular family.
The curse of the law is that, at a heart level, we can never do enough; however, in his mercy, God made Christ the curse for us that we might live in freedom.
Our faith joins us as children of Abraham - because of Christ, we partake on the promises of God to his people, regardless of race or culture.
The Gospel as the finished work of Christ frees us from a life of always striving to have to "do better" and replaces it with a life of rest and fellowship.
Being justified with Christ, Paul is no longer the man he once was, but has been transformed and drawn into a relatiooship with Christ, gaining intimacy over sacrifice.
As believers, we are entrusted with sharing the "good news" of the Gospel - that Jesus alone has taken away our sin, brought us into relationship with God, and given purpose to every part of our lives.
Paul came proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and Christ alone, as the Savior and satisfier of our hearts; however, our sinful nature pulls us towards "other gospels" that leave us wanting.
We begin our study in the Book of Galatians with Paul's introduction as an apostle of Christ, radically saved and uniquely called to speak to God's people with authority and purpose.
The finished work of Christ means that believers can draw near to God with boldness, can find rest in the hope of our faith, and can encourage one another, looking forward to the day when all things are made pono.
Although Adam's sin in the garden broke the relationship between God and man, God responded in invitation, creating a means of restoring relationship.
God listens to and understands the longings and hopes of our hearts, and we can be reassured knowing that we are never too far gone for God to restore wandering hearts.
God, in His mercy, will bring hardship to His people in order to draw them back to Himeself.
As a fallen people, our tendency is to lose focus on the object of our worship and create a "false religion." Only through repentance can God help us refocus our worship onto Him.
Sin severs the relationship that our Father desires to share with His people. Confessing our sins and humbling ourselves restores that relationship and frees our hearts to communication and deeper closeness with Him.
God laments the transgressions of His people; He has seen their sins, yet He has never turned His people away. Through grace, His faithfulness abounds, and His covenant persists.
We are reminded that God, as our Creator, cares about the "little things" and actively works to engage His people, and draw us closer to Him.
In this passage, we see that God's judgment stems out of His mercy and love for his people. God's great and tough love invites us to humbly approach Him, trusting that His love will endure despite our unworthiness.
In today's passage, we see God's heart for His people to uphold their needs and to direct them toward compassion and righteousness.
In light of a holy God and His hatred of sin, let us view our own sins rightly, even those done subtly, and let it provoke us to righteousness.
As we begin a new series on the book of Amos, we glorify the power of a mighty God Who controls the creation in which we live, and Who cares about what we do and how we live.
Jesus is worthy of our continued praise because He hears our prayers, atones our sins, and dwells with us.
During this Advent we are reminded that Jesus was born to live and die, to satisfy the payment for our sin as our High Priest before God.
We look at the birth and early life of Christ as being remarkably unremarkable - proclaimed by angels and prophets, yet quietly and humbly lived by the very Messiah Who came to redeem sinners while still caring enough to be concerned with the minutiae of our lives.
We consider Jesus, the Word, Who was present at Creation, and Whose prescence endures, bringing Light into the darkness of a broken world.