01/17/10 - The Rabbit Hole of Repentance

01/10/10 - Embracing Repentance

01/03/10 - The Normal Alternative

12/27/09 - New Rings for a New Year

12/13/09 - Marginal Christmas

Steve explores the real radical Christmas story beyond the fluff & marketing.

12/06/09 - Advent 2009 - Week 2

11/29/09 - Advent 2009

11/15/09 - Poetic Praise

11/08/09 - Brazen Praise

11/01/09 - Learning, Receiving, Hearing, Seeing

10/25/09 - Passionate, or Merely Excited?

10/18/09 - Worship and Passion

09/27/09 - Fig Leaves

09/20/09 - Living Life as if You Were the Only Car on the Road

09/06/09 - Life and Limitation

08/23/09 : Sustainable Sabbath

Steve goes deeper into the topic of the Sabbath by examining the health-giving aspects of such a practice on our lives.
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0816/09: A Sabbath for Workaholics

Steve explores the reasons and problems of the Sabbath, and why we need Sabbath times in our crazy lives.

08/02/09 - Work, Creativity and Care

07/19/09 - "Would Someone Please Read this Passage? Anyone... Anyone..."

06/28/09 - Viva la Difference, Part Deux

06/21/09 - Viva la Difference

06/14/09 - Leading, Submitting, Jamming

06/07/09 - Rethinking Things

05/31/09 - Doin' the Tango

05/24/09 - Soulish Dignity / Sinful Tragedy

05/17/09 - On Being Soulish

05/10/09 - Regroup! Part 2

The community continues the discussion on "Where do we go from here?" after our two consecutive "Incarnational Sundays."

05/03/09 - Regroup!

The community regroups with an "open mic" session to share the successes, surprises, and struggles of our "Incarnational Sundays."

04/12/09 - Easter 2009 - Easter Eyes

Steve digs deep into the Easter message--a message of redemption via the life of Saul, and a message of hard faith via the eyes of Ananias.

04/05/09 - The Way of Incarnation - Living "Sabbatically"

Guest speaker, Joshua Hayashi, teaches on the "rule" of Sabbath as a path to the Jesus life.

03/29/09 - Missional Month: The Business of Being Missional

Community members Colin and Robin Kumabe and Roy Sakuma share about their businesses as missional work.

03/22/09 - Missional Month: Reaching the Tormented in Thailand

Missionaries in Thailand, Shaun and Angie Futch, share about their work in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to bring the light of God to the many lying in the torment of their own torches.

03/16/09 - Missional Month: A Year in Their Shoes

Guest speaker Dallas Walker shares from his experience of choosing to live on the street for one year in order to serve the homeless community in Honolulu.

03/08/09 - Missional Month: Fighting Human Trafficking Here and Now

Guest speakers share about their brave, gritty work fighting tho sex trade and human trafficking in our own backyard. Also, community member Michele Leong shares about the efforts she and Trina Orimoto are making in our own community to help the enslaved.

03/01/09 - Missional Month: Will McClatchey and Taian Miao

Community members Will McClatchey and Taian Miao share their insights on becoming proactive, incarnational priests.

02/15/09 - Wisdom and Weighing: Tools for being Proactive, Incarnational Priests

02/01/09 - Part 2: Thinning the Crowd in a Consumer Culture

02/01/09 - Part 1: Of Seeds, Soil, and Bread

01/25/09 - Moving Toward the Future Through Our Past (audio)

01/18/09 - The Evolution of "Priesthood"

01/11/09 - "Sí se puede" (Yes We Can) - A Morning with Julie Chávez Rodriguez

01/04/09 - Where Are We Headed? (Audio)

01/04/09 - Where Are We Headed? (Handout)

12/28/08 - More Mary

Following up on last week's message ("Wounded Blessedness & Christmas Hope") Steve explores more on Mary's life & attitude towards being the "Christ-bearer" in Luke 1:26-38 & Luke 1:46-55

12/21/08 - Wounded Blessedness and Christmas Hope (audio)

Steve shares a not-so-usual Christmas message of pain and hope from Luke 1:26-38

12/14/18 - Culture Shock (audio)

11/06/08 - Changing into a Holy Priesthood (audio)

11/09/08 - Ecclesia Semper Reformanda and Wisdom from the Cracks (audio)

11/02/08 - Acts 4 - Reversing the Curse

10/26/08 - Guilt, Grace and Religion

Josh Hayashi looks at the parable of the Good Samaritan with an eye to digging deeply into our motivations and fears in being Christ to others.

10/19/08 - Courageous Concern (handout)

10/19/08 - Courageous Concern (audio)

10/12/08 - Of Forests and Trees (audio)

10/05/08 - Passionate Clarity / Courageous Boldness (audio)

10/05/08 - Passionate Clarity / Courageous Boldness (notes and quotes)

09/21/08 - Exclusive Boldness, Inclusive Love (audio)

09/21/08 - Exclusive Boldness, Inclusive Love (handout)

08/24/08 - (rough edit) Morning with the Kapurs

08/17/08 - (rough edit) Joe's Excellent Adventure

08/10/08 - (rough edit) Dislocation and Relocation

08/03/08 - How to Make a Custom-Made Jesus (rough audio)

08/03/08 - How to Make a Custom-Made Jesus (handout)

07/27/08 - Odd Partners - Worship and Justice (rough-edit)

07/27/08 - Odd Partners - Worship and Justice (handout)

07/13/08 - Basic or Bonus in the Christian Life

Steve shares about balancing the different actions of the first century church in our lives today.

06/22/08 - Lightly Salted - Part 2 (rough-cut)

Guest speaker Richard Ross continues his teaching from the Beatitudes.

06/22/08 - Lightly Salted - Part 2 (handout)

06/15/08 - Lightly Salted (audio)

Community member Richard Ross guides us through Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, challenging us to live purposefully--usefully--as salt and light in the world.

06/15/08 - Lightly Salted (handout)

06/08/08 - The Berean Balance (audio)

Steve deepens the discussion on the characteristics and discernment of sound teaching and urges us to consider the consequences for both Christian and non-Christian communities when we fail to live with a balance between receptivity and critical examination.

06/08/08 - The Berean Balance (handout)

06/01/08 - Full-Bodied Belief (handout)

06/01/08 - Full-Bodied Belief (audio)

Steve exhorts us to be committed to the pursuit of careful theological reflection, because good teaching is just as powerful as bad teaching.

05/25/08 - Radical Pentecostalism (audio)

Steve cautions the community against seeking after the Pentecost experience not accompanied by Pentecost action and meaning in community, and reminds us that a chief purpose of the Spirit is to empower us to live into His kingdom agenda.

05/25/08 - Radical Pentecostalism (handout)

05/18/08 - The Kingdom in the Streets (audio)

Steve challenges the smallness of our understanding of the kingdom of God as "Christian ghetto" in light of a post-resurrection world, and calls us to take the kingdom message to the "streets"!

05/18/08 - The Kingdom in the Streets (handout)

05/11/08 - Waiting For the Right Time...

On this Pentecost Sunday, guest speaker and community member Jonathan Wong challenges us to live now mirroring the kingdom that is even as we wait for the kingdom that is to come.

05/04/08 - On a Mission From God

Steve urges us to be agents of the process of renewal that began with Christ's resurrection; to concern ourselves with the renewal of all creation, not merely so-called spiritual renewal.

04/20/08 - The Way of Hope in Sacred Wounds

Richard Ross shares a message of pain, awe and hope of how God works through our weaknesses and our wounds.

"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." 1 Corinthians 1:27 (NIV)

04/13/08 - The Way of Hope, The Way of Thorns (Audio)

Steve challenges us to get past the pollyanna's view of the "always-sunny" Christian life and look at serving the kingdom of God even through our wounds and hurts.

04/13/08 - The Way of Hope, The Way of Thorns (Handout)

04/06/08 - The Way of Hope in the Vortex (Audio)

Steve continues to examine the Christian life through brokenness by looking at the vortex of authentic faith and doubt.

04/06/08 - The Way of Hope in the Vortex (Handout)

02/03/08 - Fear, Failure, Faithfulness

Steve confronts us with the Odd Trinity of fear, failure, and faithfulness, and challenges us to embrace God's perspective of our failures in order to step towards a life of faith.

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Handouts: Notes & Quotes

01/20/08 - The Way of Faith

We look at the life of Abraham to better understand and pursue the life of faith--the life of risk.

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Notes & Quotes
Sunday Circle Questions

8/13/06 : Community Values

Steve continues the discussion on Imago Dei's values by looking at our need for an authentic community where we can be loved, even with our weaknesses.

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"no masks!"

8/6/06: Spirituality of the Vine

Steve shares more on Imago Dei's values, including deep Spirituality in the Christian life (from John 15:1-9)

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7/30/06: A New Kind of Church

Steve discusses Imago Dei's values & purpose for the current times: one that looks to serve God in the world. (Note: much of his discussion refers to the handout that can be downloaded below)

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Imago Dei is now meeting at the new Oahu Veterans' Center in Foster Village on Sundays 9-11 am. The center is located at 1298 Kukila St. near Radford High. Click HERE for a map.
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