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FaithIsland

Whenever someone says, "no one lives on an island alone" - at OSHi, Aiea we are living proof. We live on an island, but we are never alone. We welcome you to journey with us as we follow Jesus - through this life - finally arriving at the life to come. Aloha ke Akua!

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Holy Trinity Sunday Audio

FaithIsland ·

2025/06/13

The mystery of Holy Trinity Sunday is this simple: God created you as a unique an unreproducible miracle. Jesus paid for all the junk and mistakes in your life. The Holy Spirit is with you eYou can tell Jesus He is full of demons. You can build all sorts of barriers between you and Him. You can listen to the demon on your shoulder. You can do whatever you want. It doesn't change the truth that God loves you - forgives you - has a place in heaven with your name on it - and is tearing down all

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16:33

Pentecost Sunday Audio

FaithIsland ·

2025/06/07

Everytime someone tells me only pastors can preach - I point to this verse. It may be my job to deliver a sermon on Sunday - but you, whether you are male or female, young or old - have a calling to preach. You don't have to be long-winded like me - you just have to tell people what God has done and is doing in your life. And you don't need to go into great detail - sometimes it's as simple as, "I was lower than a snake's belly the other day when I heard my favorite Christian song" or "did you

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16:48

Sunday of the Ascension Audio

FaithIsland ·

2025/05/30

People who through the gift of faith believe the resurrection happened, live in a world where death and satan and evil no longer have any power over them. It doesn't mean death isn't scary. It doesn't mean they don't work to avoid it. But ultimately when death comes - the believer looks it straight in the eye and says, "do your worst - you can't win" because even if you steal my last breath - one second later I will wake up in heaven and get to live forever where you can't touch me anymore.

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Sixth Sunday of Easter Audio

FaithIsland ·

2025/05/24

The difference between a myth and the truth is not if you believe it or not. It's whether it really is true. You cannot change truth just by believing or not believing. This is why we live by faith. As much as I would love to live in complete certainty - knowing everything without doubt or fear - it is impossible. My brain will not allow me to completely trust God. It works to sabotage me over and over again as it tries to convince me I know more than God and everyone else. My self-deception

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17:47

Fifth Sunday of Easter Audio

FaithIsland ·

2025/05/23

As we look around, we see signs of a world so deeply loved by God that even as it spirals into nothingness He refuses to give up. And the only thing God said that was worth saving from this world and this universe was you. There will be a new heaven and new earth - and you will get to see it take place. And because I know God - I know you are going to love it - because what you were really searching for your whole life will be found in what is new which as it turns out isn't so new at all because

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16:22

Fourth Sunday of Easter Audio

FaithIsland ·

2025/05/09

We cannot avoid pain or suffering or uncomfortable moments or the judgment of the world. When we run away from God - we get further and further away from His voice - the voice that speaks Truth. And I know we are often afraid of the truth - and yet there is a truth we need to hear. I know we don't like being told we're sinners or that we shouldn't have said that or done that - but that is not the only thing God says.The voice of God also calls out to us to remind us we are His child - forgiven -

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16:36

Third Sunday of Easter Audio

FaithIsland ·

2025/05/02

Revelation was written for a very specific purpose - and it wasn't to create anxiety, fear or doubt in the minds of God's people. People are always saying they want to study Revelation because it's filled with 7 headed beasts, angels fighting demons, dragons and other science fiction worthy scenes. But all of that is just creamer in the coffee, icing on the cake, the pickle on the Chick-Fil-A sandwich. You can boil the whole book of Revelation down to just two words: God wins. All those demons

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16:40

Second Sunday of Easter Audio

FaithIsland ·

2025/04/25

The church is not a group of people who all believe the exact same things. That is the goal - but it ain't going to happen until we get to heaven. The church is a group of people caught up in a story that has Jesus at the center. We are drawn into that story and the life of Jesus as the Holy Spirit works in our heart, mind and soul to deepen our relationship with God and one another to the point where we no longer see God and heaven and theology and the church from our perspective - but

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16:16

Easter SonRose Service

FaithIsland ·

2025/04/19

Easter is the epitome of the Christian identity. We are people who every single day stand completely exposed to death and pain and all the rest of the world's evil deeds. Faith allows us to declare they cannot hurt us. When someone asks how we could say that - it would never be enough for us to give the reason for our faith as - an empty tomb. They would just stare at us and think we were crazy. But a living Jesus - one who is alive and breathing and working in and through us - that is more than

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18:26

Easter Festival Service

FaithIsland ·

2025/04/19

Jesus’ resurrection makes redemption possible. The Holy Spirit is breathed on us by the risen Christ in ways we cannot describe - but we can experience. What Easter says in the boldest possible statement - God’s pursuit of you is relentless. His scars tell His story of a cross, a grave, an empty tomb and offer endless possibilities.

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Good Friday

FaithIsland ·

2025/04/17

The last words - and a walk through the darkness to the Light

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28:21

Maundy Thursday

FaithIsland ·

2025/04/17

Sampling the Seder - a walk through the Passover Meal

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Palm Sunday - Time for a Parade

FaithIsland ·

2025/04/10

If you knew Someone would save you when you died - would you be afraid of dying? In a preview of that grace-filled and merciful unbinding that will take place on Easter Sunday - Jesus throws a parade today. It's a simple thing to show people what the world sees as an end is really just the beginning. If, by God's gift of faith, you believe the cross is more than a fairytale - there is a happily ever after waiting for you.

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17:22

Fifth Sunday in Lent

FaithIsland ·

2025/04/05

When People Knock our Rocks Down. My life, like yours, is what it is today because of what we believe. Like St. Paul, I don't know everything - and still have some "aha" moments. Theology and doctrine are not moving targets - but our life and this world is always moving - which is why when people knock the stacked rocks down - and we find ourselves a little lost - we need to make sure we know who to trust and not be afraid to ask the right questions.

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Fourth Sunday in Lent

FaithIsland ·

2025/03/28

Is this a parable - or is it the real-life story of God and prodigal children? And if we're talking about the word prodigal (spending resources freely and recklessly; being wastefully extravagant) - is it the son or the Father who is more extravagant? One thing is certain from the text - whether we are the prodigal or the older, self-righteous, brother - God doesn't give up on us.

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17:09

Third Sunday in Lent

FaithIsland ·

2025/03/21

Justice and Mercy are not opposites. They are both necessary parts of our earthly life. Henri Nouwen wrote, “We tend to be compassionate to the extent that we have suffered the Passion in our own lives.” If we view life through the cross of Jesus, our own pain and suffering and failures and losses - the manure of our life - tend to make us more understanding of others - and the "grammar of justice is softened by the poetry of mercy."

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Second Sunday in Lent

FaithIsland ·

2025/03/12

When the pastor speaks - who do you hear? What rules are there for pastors when they say things like, "thus saith the Lord?" And so - part of what is supposed to happen when we come to church is our hearts and minds and souls are to be continually baptized - not with water - but with grace and mercy and peace so we are able to take all that we are - and all that the world is made of and use it for the sake of the Gospel. I forget to remind you as often as I should - I do not expect you to be

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17:08

First Sunday in Lent

FaithIsland ·

2025/03/07

We live in the wilderness - and as long as we are on this earth the wilderness will be where we lay our head, scratch out a living and try to make sense of this life. satan and sin will always be here. There is a reason Jesus went into the wilderness immediately after His baptism - He was reminding us of what we have through that simple water and few words. At baptisms, the pastor asks everyone present to "renounce satan and all his empty promises" - what an amazing moment that is for us. As Luther

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Wednesday of Ashes

FaithIsland ·

2025/03/07

Once a year, on a Wednesday, we mix ashes with oil. We light candles and confess to one another and to God that we have sinned by what we have done and what we have left undone. We tell the truth. We smear the ashes on our foreheads and together acknowledge the single reality upon which everyone agrees: “Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.” It’s the only thing we know for sure: we are going to die. But grace teaches us to ask the most important question: "then what?"

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Sunday of the Transfiguration

FaithIsland ·

2025/02/28

You don't need a mountaintop or voice from the clouds or even Elijah and Moses showing up. Transfiguration Sunday is about how we don't need to "Climb to Glory" (sorry 10th Mountain Div) God's holiness came to dwell with us - in the valleys and plains of our existence. It isn't about where we are or what's happening around us - God is with us in all of it.

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