Harbor Church Honolulu

There’s been a time in your life (maybe right now) when you hit rock bottom. When you felt like you were at the deepest, darkest point of the Mariana Trench and the pressure was slowly crushing you. You have two options in that place: give up all hope , or passionately cry out to God with hope that he’ll rescue and redeem.

Sometimes following Jesus doesn't look or feel like winning. Instead, you get overlooked or pushed back because of your faith, while the people who reject Him seem to be the ones getting ahead. So how do you respond when life feels like a loss, even though the Bible calls you "more than a conqueror"?

What’s your mission in life? David spent his life pursuing one mission: building a temple so God would have a house in Jerusalem. But God did something way beyond what David could have imagined when he made his house in each one of us through his Holy Spirit. Now our mission is to be the temple, and bring God’s presence to our families, workplaces, and friend groups,

Quick - what comes to mind when you hear the word blessed ? Maybe you picture the promotion. The platform. The post with the family photo in the south of France. Most of us picture something extraordinary, but most of life is lived in the ordinary. And that’s just how God designed it! According to Psalm 128, the blessed life is going to work to provide for your family. Sitting around the dinner ta...

Most of us are building something: a career, a family, a life worth living. But what happens when the thing you're building starts to feel like it's crushing you? Psalm 127 speaks right into that. If you're grinding and wondering if it's worth it, tune into this message.

You know those songs DJ’s play at weddings when it’s getting empty on the dance floor and they want to get everybody back on the dance floor? Psalm 126 was that song for Israel. It fired them up to keep dancing, whether they were rejoicing or mourning.

It’s shocking how fast our stable, comfortable lives can go sideways. A diagnosis can rearrange your whole world in half a minute. A financial plan that looks fine on Thursday can fall apart by Friday. A friendship can seem rock solid until it isn’t. A job can feel secure until it isn’t. But God promises that even in this unstable world, we can be as un-moveable as a mountain.

Ever feel like you’re completely outgunned, outclassed, and outmaneuvered? Maybe you’re up against a government agency, a corporate bureaucracy, or a hostile group, and you don’t stand a chance. The good news is you have the creator of the universe on your side. According to David, God is always protecting you and fighting for you.

Life can feel like one long hike up Olomana, Three Peaks. Draining, uncertain, and full of moments when you wonder if you’re going to make it. In Psalm 121, we’ll see that the provision we need won’t come from the “mountains” we trust in today like comfort, hustle, or power, but from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Life with God is a journey. He’s always taking us from death to life, from worldliness to holiness, from the law to grace, from isolation to fellowship, from independence to interdependence. So what do you do when you feel stuck in a valley of depression, loneliness, distress, or helplessness? The Psalms will help us begin our ascent up the mountain to God’s grace, power, and goodness.

As we close out this sermon series, we’ve been answering many questions about Christianity using the Bible. But what if you’re not sure you can believe the Bible? Isn’t it full of contradictions and out-of-date assumptions? Well, Jesus believed even the craziest parts of the Bible, so if we want to follow Jesus we need to follow his lead.

When C.S. Lewis thought about hell, he said, “There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power.” Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that a loving God would sentence people to an eternity of suffering, but Jesus spoke about hell twice as much as everyone else in the Bible combined. He describes hell as a place we choose to go, but...

In a world quick to label, divide, and write people off, it’s easy to believe some matter more than others. But Jesus tells a different story. He doesn’t avoid people or sort them into categories, he moves toward them.

People who only come to church on Easter might think, “Why are they always talking about the same thing? This whole resurrection thing?” It’s because the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our faith. If the tomb is empty, everything changes for the world. And if the tomb is empty, anything’s possible for your life.

There’s a brand new public health crisis physicians have identified in the last few years. They’re calling it the loneliness epidemic and it affects more than half of us, especially in younger generations. Fortunately, Jesus gave us the cure to this ailment when he invited us into the community of the Trinity, and gave us the church as its physical embodiment.

Some people think God the Father is the strict one, God the Son is the nice one, and God the Spirit is the weird one. Other people think the Spirit is the only one who matters. We’ll see in John that it’s better to have the Spirit in us than Jesus beside us, because the Spirit brings the Father and Son to us.

Most people assume there are many ways to reach God. Just live a good life, believe something spiritual, and hope it works out. But Jesus makes a bold claim: He alone is the way to the Father. We’ll look at why Jesus is uniquely qualified to say that and how His love changes everything.

There’s one message every motivational speaker and social media influencer wants to give you: You Are Enough. Life is hard, but you’ve got this. Only problem is, we know that’s not true. We feel our inadequacy every day in our work, parenting, and DIY home repairs. Thankfully, Jesus came to meet us in our inadequacy and make us more than enough.

In life, we all experience unmet expectations, natural suffering, and even human evil. When it happens, we all ask the same question: Why? Why did you let this happen, God? Why should I trust you, God? The disciples were asking the same questions when they faced the death of their hero and the end of their movement. Jesus answered their questions with the Farewell Discourse in John, starting with...

In Honolulu, life can feel easygoing, so it’s tempting to just cruise. The weather rarely goes below 65, violent crimes are lower than most major cities, and unless you paddle out to Kewalos at dusk there’s no animals that want to kill you. But Peter reminds us that real growth and change require spiritual vigilance.