The Mission North Shore - Current Teaching

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's Podcast! What does it truly mean to live a blessed life? Psalm 1 opens the book of Psalms with a striking contrast between two ways of living, and the imagery it uses is more radical and more personal than we might expect. 

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's podcast!  In Matthew 5, Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount by making a striking declaration: he did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. When Jesus taught, the crowds were amazed because he spoke with authority, not like their scribes. He was teaching the word of God and showing how it applied to real life. That same contrast challenges us today. Are we engaging with the actual word of God, or have we allowed layers of tradition, denominational habit, or cultural preference to sit between us and the text?

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's podcast! What does it mean to be salt in a world that is decaying? That question sits at the heart of one of the most vivid and practical teachings Jesus ever delivered. Drawing from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5, we are reminded that our calling as followers of Christ is not passive or private.

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's podcast! Every believer will one day stand before Christ to have their life's work evaluated. Listen along as Dave Swanson dives into 2 Corinthians 5 and shows that rewards are God's idea, and that today is the day to start living for what will last forever.

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's podcast! After three chapters on everything God has done for us in Christ, Paul says “therefore, walk.” Taoa unpacks what it means to walk worthy of the calling we’ve already received: with humility, unity, and every gift at work. We don’t walk this way to become children of God; we walk this way because we already are.

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's podcast! What if the disciple we have written off as the weak link is actually one of the most relatable and instructive figures in all of the Gospels? Thomas, forever branded with the label 'Doubting Thomas,' turns out to be far more complex and far more like us than we ever gave him credit for. This message walks us through all four of Thomas' recorded quotes in Scripture, revealing a man who was courageous enough to follow Jesus into danger, humble enough to admit he did not understand, honest enough to voice his doubts, and ultimately broken enough to fall in full worship before his risen Lord. 

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's podcast! The story of Gideon in Judges 6 and 7 pulls us into one of the most dramatic and counterintuitive military campaigns in all of scripture, where an army of 32,000 is whittled down to just 300 before the battle even begins. The central message is not about strategy, strength, or numbers. It is about the transforming reality of God's presence.

Aloha and welcome to the Mission North Shore's podcast! What does it truly mean to live as a follower of Christ in a world that is often indifferent or even hostile to faith? In this message drawn from the final verses of the Beatitudes in Matthew 5, we explore three defining qualities that mark a genuine disciple: a pure heart, a peacemaking spirit, and an unshakeable faith in the face of opposition.

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's podcast! What if everything about the way we gather, the places we worship, and the temporary nature of our surroundings is actually pointing us toward something eternal? That is exactly the thread we pull on in this message, beginning with the striking reminder that we are sojourners and strangers in this world, not settlers. Heaven is our home, and we are simply passing through. From that foundation, we are drawn into the story of the Old Testament tabernacle, a tent in the desert where God chose to dwell among his people.

Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore's podcast! What does it mean to truly hunger and thirst for something? We all know that feeling of physical hunger, that primal, consuming drive that takes over our thoughts and demands to be satisfied. In this teaching drawn from Matthew 5:6, we explore what it looks like when that same intensity is directed toward righteousness and the things of God. The Sermon on the Mount was never meant to be comfortable. Jesus was deliberately flipping the values of a fallen world right side up, and this Beatitude is no exception. We are challenged to ask ourselves an honest question: do we pursue God with the same urgency and passion that we pursue food and water every single day?