C4 Church Hawaii

As we close the DESIGN series, we wrap up our journey of discovering the good works God created each of us to do by meditating on 1 Corinthians 15:58: Your Labor in the Lord Is Not in Vain. Because Jesus' resurrection means what we do today matters to God's future, Paul calls us to give ourselves fully to the Lord's work, even when it feels futile and frustrating. God can use even o...

Every follower of Jesus has a Spiritual Gift — but discovering it isn’t the finish line. In this message from our DESIGN series, Pastor Brett unpacks what Spiritual Gifts actually are, how they’re different from natural talent and learned skill, and why the real goal isn’t just to discover your gift — it’s to discover it, develop it, and deploy it. Whether you’ve taken a spiritual gifts assessment...

The burdens and joys God places within us aren’t random—they can serve as a compass, pointing us toward where He is calling us to serve (avad), glorify Him, and build up others. In this message, we’ll reframe what it means to have a God-given passion. More than a hobby or interest, it can be a stirring from the Holy Spirit—a burden for a person, a need, or a situation that moves us to respond. As...

What if the answer to "what's my purpose?" isn't complicated, it's just one word: serve? In this message, we unpack the Hebrew word Avad, which means to serve, but both "to tend" and "to toil," and we'll discover why the very same act of service can either bring life or burn you out. Through the tension between servanthood and servility, "I ge...

In this opening message of the DESIGN series, we explore how God uses his saved and redeemed people to participate in God's work in the world. Every follower of Jesus is a "minister," and every arena of life is a mission field. DESIGN will help us understand our passions, spiritual gifts, and personal style so we can align them to serve from who God created us to be. Join us as we a...

Everything changes. Buildings, seasons, styles, and even the people around us. So what do we hold onto when God is the one leading us into something new? As C4 Church steps into its anniversary weekend, Pastor Chad takes us through the seasons of our church and then straight into Hebrews 13, where a seasoned church was caught between two dangers: the pull to retreat into the familiar past, and the...

This Sunday we celebrate our anniversary, 22 years as a church! Pastor Creighton and Pastor Keane will be sharing a vision message, looking at where we are headed and how we are getting there. Discussion Questions: C4's vision starts with a family that helps people experience Jesus before it ever asks them to be formed. Who was the person or the room that let you belong before you had it toge...

When we live on mission, as witnesses to Jesus in our everyday lives, God will often lead us into new circumstances that challenge us to move out of our comfort zone. Christians have experienced this throughout history, from the first generation through us today. When the Holy Spirit does a new work, we're faced with the choice: will we bend the Spirit's work to fit inside our own expect...

Most of us stay quiet about our faith for one reason. We're convinced we don't know enough. In the final week of our Sent series, Pastor Chad opens John 9, where Jesus heals a man born blind and that man ends up in a theological interrogation he has no training for. Cornered by the experts, outmatched on every point, he says one of the most freeing sentences in the Bible: "One thing...

God has not only called us to be sent into our workplaces and communities, but also into one of the most challenging mission fields we have: our families. Sharing our faith with those closest to us can be difficult because our family members know our past, our failures, and our weaknesses. Yet God often chooses to use the very places where we have experienced brokenness as places where He brings r...

Words carry the power of life and death—and most of us are still carrying both: the sentence that built us up years ago, and the one that still stings. In this Father's Day message, Pastor Chad makes the case that most father wounds are actually word wounds—something that was said, or something that was never said. Through the ache of Esau's stolen blessing in Genesis 27 and the voice th...

You might call it chance. God calls it placement. In Acts 17, Paul walks into a city full of idols and instead of retreating, he shows up in the marketplace, day after day, with “those who happened to be there.” No platform. No podcast. No book deal. Just presence. And an entire city couldn’t stop talking about him. In Week 3 of our series “Sent: Everyday Witness in Everyday Life,” Pastor Brett un...

What if the reason evangelism feels so awkward is that we've misunderstood the assignment? In this message from our Sent series, Pastor Chad starts somewhere unexpected, your favorite food spot,  to uncover a simple truth: we share naturally what we believe is worth sharing. Anchored in John 10 and John 20, this message reframes evangelism not as selling a product but as sharing a Person, and...

Jesus hasn’t just placed you in your life; He has sent you to it. Living on mission entails loving and blessing others, building relationships with them, and eventually inviting them into the “Kingdom of God.” There are  many ways to witness. Sometimes it does feel daunting, maybe you’re unsure or maybe we’ve made this much more complicated than it is. OR maybe you feel like you’ve BLOWN your witn...

Words carry the power of life and death—and most of us are still carrying both: the sentence that built us up years ago, and the one that still stings. In this Father's Day message, Pastor Chad makes the case that most father wounds are actually word wounds—something that was said, or something that was never said. Through the ache of Esau's stolen blessing in Genesis 27 and the voice th...

Our human condition gives us the tendency to live our lives according to what’s best for ourselves.  When we become Christians, the Holy Spirit turns us outward and empowers us to live lives marked by loving service to one another. Spirit-empowered service is the natural overflow of a life increasingly surrendered to the Spirit, who is himself always moving outward, always giving, always other-cen...

In a world that never stops pressing, most of us quietly wonder if we're spiritual enough — and many of us have already decided we're not. In this message, Pastor Shea explores what it actually means to be filled with the Spirit in the ordinary, depleted, demanding seasons of real life. Drawing from Ephesians 5 and Acts 4, he reframes Spirit-filled living not as a mountain top moment to...

In this message from our Poured Out series, we dig into Galatians 5 to wrestle with one of the most honest questions the Christian life raises: how do you actually love people who are genuinely hard to love? Pastor Ryan walks through Paul's letter to a church that was biting and devouring each other — and shows why the answer isn't more effort, more guilt, or more rules. The breakthrough...

Poured Out: The Holy Spirit is our “Down Payment” of the Future The Holy Spirit was poured out, so that we can pour ourselves out in love and service to others. On this Pentecost Sunday, we explore and celebrate how the Spirit is our “down payment” of our future inheritance (Ephesians 1:13 -14), given to us now so that we can live like God intends us to live. Discussion Questions:  Can you think o...

Every one of us will face crossroads — moments where we need more than information; we need wisdom. The good news? You don't have to chase wisdom down. She's already calling out to you. In this message, Pastor Wayne unpacks how to grow from knowing right and wrong into walking in the power of God, why obedience (not just agreement) is what unlocks the blessing, and how the friends waitin...

Life rarely turns out exactly the way we imagined, and the gap between what we hoped for and what actually happened is often where our deepest pain lives. In this Mother's Day message, we dive into the story of Hannah from 1 Samuel 1–2, a woman who faced years of heartbreak, provocation, and unanswered prayer, and whose response to all of it became one of the most powerful pictures of faith i...

In this sermon, Pastor Chad tackles one of the most honest tensions in the Christian faith: if Jesus really defeated death, why does it still feel like our bodies are losing? Drawing from 2 Corinthians 4, he walks through Paul's raw, unfiltered confession that "outwardly we are wasting away" and shows why that's not a crisis of faith, but actually the very place where resurrect...

Jesus conquered death, and yet we still die and we still grieve loved ones. Because Jesus rose as the “firstfruits,” death is not the final word, and we can grieve with real and certain hope for bodily resurrection.  In this sermon we will #1. Recognize our time on earth is temporary, #2.Answer the question How can we live in Jesus’ victory over death when we & our loved ones die?” #3. If we a...

Jesus conquered sin, and yet we still experience temptation and choose to sin. But sin no longer owns us! Jesus broke its power, and by His Spirit you can walk in real freedom today. But maybe even as a Christian you might say, “I’m a believer but sin still has got a hold on me.” OR “I don’t feel so victorious.” “I understand that Jesus paid it all – but I feel stuck in sin. So what does it mean t...

Easter Sunday feels electric, but what happens on Monday? In this message, we tackle an honest question that many of us are afraid to ask: If Jesus already won, why does my life not always feel like it? The answer might change the way you see everything. Drawing from Romans 8 and 1 Corinthians 15, we explore one of the most practically powerful ideas in Scripture, the "Now and Not Yet,"...