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On this first Sunday of Advent, Pastor Billy Waters invites us to begin the season with a heart check—not merely preparing for Christmas, but preparing our hearts for the second coming of Christ. Walking through Jonah 1, he shows how the prophet’s reluctance exposes the gap between knowing God’s heart and actually sharing it with the world.

Jonah is called to preach to Nineveh, a violent enemy of Israel, yet he runs—fast and far. Not out of simple fear, Pastor Billy explains, but because Jonah knows God is merciful… and he doesn’t want that mercy extended to people he considers undeserving. Even still, God’s mercy moves relentlessly: toward pagans, toward enemies, toward stubborn prophets who would rather drown than obey.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 Advent as a season of heart preparation—aligning our hearts with God’s mercy

🔹 Jonah as the “anti-prophet” whose resistance reveals God’s unwavering compassion

🔹 Why we often flee from the people God calls us to love

🔹 The irony of pagans crying out to God while God’s prophet sleeps

🔹 God’s mercy reaching pagans, enemies, and even a reluctant prophet

🔹 Our calling to move with Jesus into brokenness, bringing light, salt, and freedom

Pastor Billy shares the powerful story of a Rwandan pastor whose congregation now includes people who killed his own family—an embodied picture of mercy that refuses to stay away from “the other.” Likewise, we are called to move toward those we find difficult, different, or even painful to love.

Faith isn’t passive. We are ambassadors, fishers of people, salt, and light—sent into dark, hurting places with Jesus to reveal the mercy that changed us first.

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As we come to the end of our long journey through Deuteronomy, Pastor Billy Waters invites us to consider a crucial question: What happens when we wander from God’s ways—and how does God bring us back? In this final message of the series, he explores the heart of spiritual renewal and the deep mercy of a God who restores, reforms, and revives His people.

Walking through the final section of Deuteronomy, Pastor Billy shows that renewal isn’t abstract or mystical—it’s God’s gracious process of bringing His people from death back into life. Personal renewal awakens us to God’s love. Restoration begins to rebuild what sin has torn down. And formation reshapes the very structures of our hearts until Christ is at the center again.

Along the way, Pastor Billy shares stories from a recent visit to churches in West Oahu—dilapidated buildings filled with vibrant faith, teenagers encountering hope for the first time, and communities being changed not from the outside in, but from the inside out. Renewal always starts with God stirring hearts.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 What spiritual renewal truly is—and what it isn’t

🔹 How God restores what sin has stolen

🔹 Why formation requires uprooting old heart-habits and planting new trust in Christ

🔹 Stories of revival breaking out in unlikely places

🔹 How God’s promises become alive again when renewal takes root

Spiritual renewal is God bringing His people back to life. When we love and listen—even after seasons of wandering—God reshapes us, restores us, and fills our communities with His presence and power.

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What does it mean to live a blessed life? In this message, Vicar David Norris continues our journey through Deuteronomy 28—moving from last week’s focus on curses to the surprising, expansive generosity of God’s blessing.

David reminds us that blessing isn’t a shallow hashtag or a material upgrade; it’s the deep, soul-level fullness that comes from living in right relationship with God. From creation to Abraham to Jesus himself, Scripture shows a God who is eager and unrelenting in His desire to bless His people.

Blessing stretches across the whole of life—“in the city and in the country… when you come in and when you go out.” And yet, we often miss it when we seek God’s hand more than His face. The pathway into blessing is the pathway of obedience, listening, love, and repentance—turning from our idols and legalisms and allowing the Spirit to search our hearts.

Ultimately, David points us to the One who fulfills every promise: the seed of Abraham, the Son of David, the obedient King—Jesus. He is the One who comes to make His blessings flow as far as the curse is found, restoring us to the presence of God. And this is our hope: the fullness of life in His presence now and forever.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 God’s eagerness—not reluctance—to bless His people

🔹 Why true blessing goes deeper than material comfort

🔹 The call to seek God’s face, not just His hand

🔹 Obedience as the pathway into life with God

🔹 Jesus as the One who removes the curse and restores blessing

🔹 The fullness of life found in God’s presence—now and in the age to come

The invitation today is simple and profound: seek His face. As we grow in listening, we grow in loving—and as we grow in loving, we grow in listening.

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What does the Bible really mean when it speaks of curses—and what does Jesus’ cross have to do with our freedom from them? In this message, Pastor Billy Waters unpacks how curses work, where they come from, and how God, in His mercy, has provided a way out.

From Genesis to Deuteronomy to Galatians, Scripture shows that curses aren’t random punishments but the natural outworking of life outside God’s blessing. They are spiritual consequences meant to restrain sin and call us back to covenant faithfulness. Yet in Christ, every curse meets its end. Jesus became the curse for us so that the blessing of Abraham might rest on us instead.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 Understanding curses as spiritual realities that reveal God’s holiness and justice

🔹 How disobedience opens the door to destruction—but obedience restores covering

🔹 Jesus’ victory on the cross as the breaking point of every curse

🔹 Living under God’s blessing through repentance, surrender, and covenant faithfulness

Freedom isn’t achieved through striving—it’s received through Jesus. As we walk in obedience and trust His Word, we remain under His blessing, protected and empowered to live as people set free.

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It’s Baptism Sunday—a joyful celebration of new life in Christ! Pastor Billy Waters continues the Deuteronomy series, focusing on what it means to live a consecrated life before God. Drawing from Deuteronomy 14, he explores how God calls His people to be set apart—holy, devoted, and distinct from the world around them.

Through a story about discovering a hidden banquet, Pastor Billy illustrates how often we settle for less when God offers us something far greater. Consecration, he said, is not about restriction but about relationship and renewal—turning away from the world’s false promises to feast on the riches of God’s grace.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:
🔹 Consecration as relational—belonging wholly to God as His treasured possession
🔹 Consecration as ethical—living out holiness in daily choices and integrity
🔹 The call to renewal—rejecting spiritual apathy and returning to first love
🔹 Baptism as covenant—a visible sign of our union and devotion to Christ

True revival, Pastor Billy reminds us, begins with consecrated hearts—those who love the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. As the church participatesin baptism and communion, it is an invitation to reconsecrate our lives to Jesus, declaring once again: “Lord, I am Yours.”

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This week, Pastor David Norris continued our Love and Listen series in Deuteronomy 16:18–20, exploring God’s call for His people to be marked by justice rooted in love. As Moses prepared Israel to enter the Promised Land, he reminded them that prosperity without righteousness quickly decays—“milk and honey plus bribery and theft and murder and injustice is gonna wear out real soon.”

Pastor David helped us see that justice in Scripture isn’t simply a legal system—it’s a way of life that reflects the very heart of God. While modern culture tends to define justice through our own experiences or ideologies, biblical justice begins with God’s character—His steadfast love for the vulnerable and His willingness to step into human suffering.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 God’s justice flows from His compassion and covenant love

🔹 True justice requires proximity—drawing near to those in need

🔹 The church is called to embody “costly proximity” and “radical generosity”

🔹 Love is not abstract—it’s active and sacrificial

🔹 Justice is not just about fairness but restoration and wholeness

Pastor David pointed to God’s own example in Christ—how He entered our brokenness to make our problem His problem. As the early church lived this out in Acts 2 and 6, caring for widows, orphans, and the poor, they revealed the heart of God to the world.

Faithful justice, Pastor David reminded us, is not about having the right opinions—it’s about getting close enough to love.

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This Sunday, Dr. Mark Young joined us with a message from Deuteronomy 25:5–10, continuing our Love and Listenseries. He explored how Israel’s unique family laws were not random or archaic, but deeply reflective of God’s redemptive character—calling His people to restore, protect, and make whole those who are vulnerable.

Dr. Young highlighted that the laws in Deuteronomy were never meant to earn redemption; they were given to the already redeemed as a pattern for living out God’s salvation in community. Just as Israel was to embody the compassion and justice of their Redeemer, the Church today is called to express the presence of Christ in tangible, restorative ways.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 God’s laws reveal His character—justice joined with mercy

🔹 Redemption is both personal and communal

🔹 The call to step “redemptively into the lives of people in need” with compassion and wisdom

🔹 Living out God’s justice by helping make people whole

🔹 Families and communities as places where God’s redemption is meant to be seen

Dr. Young commended Wellspring for already living out this calling—supporting families, nurturing children, and caring for those at risk socially, financially, or relationally. Our obedience in these things, he said, testifies to the world who our God is.

Faith is not abstract—it is embodied in love, service, and faithful presence. As we live out our redemption, we make God known in our city.

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How should we think about our work? In this message, Pastor Billy Waters continues our journey through Deuteronomy by exploring how chapters 12–26 shape our understanding of work—not as a necessary evil or an idol, but as a sacred calling.

God’s Word reveals a compelling vision of work rooted in love and listening. Instead of compartmentalizing our jobs and our faith, Scripture calls us to see our work as worship, formation, and redemption.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 Work as worship: every task is an offering to God

🔹 Work as formational: the Spirit uses our 100,000+ hours on the job to shape us

🔹 Work as redemptive: we’re called not just to fairness, but to sacrificial generosity

🔹 The danger of making work an idol—or treating it as a necessary evil

🔹 Why integrating our work and faith reflects the heart of God

Our jobs aren’t just about paychecks or productivity. They’re part of how we bear God’s image, love others, and live as His people in the world.

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In this message, Bishop Thad Barnum reminds us that we don’t live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Drawing from Deuteronomy, he shows that Scripture is never meant to be lifeless ink on a page—the Word becomes alive only when the Holy Spirit breathes through it.

When the Spirit enlivens the Word, it does more than inform us—it transforms us. God’s Word, spoken and alive, feeds our souls, shapes our hearts, and draws us deeper into communion with Him.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 “Man shall not live by bread alone”—learning dependence on God’s living Word

🔹 Why Scripture without the Spirit remains empty and powerless

🔹 How the Holy Spirit breathes life, meaning, and direction into God’s Word

🔹 Living on what God speaks, not merely what we see or feel

To listen to the Word is to invite the Spirit to make it living and active within us. As we open our hearts, God speaks—not just words to remember, but life to be received.

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What heals the world? Pastor Billy Waters led us into Deuteronomy 6 with this question, reminding us that true healing doesn’t come from political programs, policies, or human achievement—it comes from God’s kingdom. When heaven meets earth through Jesus’ reign, all that is broken will be restored.

In this message, we were called to consider our role as God’s covenant people. Israel didn’t conquer the nations with armies or influence, but by living as a people who listen to God and love Him wholeheartedly. That same call is ours today: listening and loving are inseparable. Love comes first, and from love flows obedience.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 God’s kingdom, not worldly power, is what brings healing to the world

🔹 Listening and loving are our greatest contribution as God’s people

🔹 Obedience flows out of love, not performance or striving

🔹 The danger of distractions—like affluence, comfort, and noise—that choke out God’s word

🔹 Reframing the series: not “Listen and Love,” but “Love and Listen”

The gospel is not about earning God’s approval through obedience. Instead, it proclaims that God loved us first—and in that love, we respond with obedience that reveals His presence to the world.

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