Welcome to the sermon podcoast 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 www.daybreakhawaii.church.
God provides and protects, and often does so miraculously, showing us that He is there for our starts and stops.
When we seek to follow God, He even weaves our mistakes and shortcomings together into a beautifully redemptive story through so much grace.
We serve a God of second chances - Who established His covenant with us through Christ, that He will always be our God, and that we will always be His people.
The consequences of Achor's sin show us the reality of God's judgement, but also evidences the immense grace offered through the Gospel.
We look at the Battle of Jericho as a reminder of the power of God to work in and for His people and as a reminder that He is in the business of saving the least likely souls.
Just as the children of Israel had been waiting years to see God's promises fulfilled, God is faithful to meet His people in the "in-between" to show them their faith is not in rain.
We are "living stones" erected to serve as memorial and testimony of God's faithfulness to His people and those that believe in Him.
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.
Christ is the source of true lifelong freedom through His Grace.
God transforms our hearts and leads us to thanksgiving as we worship Him together in regular gatherings.
Join us as we see the importance of God's Word as it reveals the real Jesus.
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.