FaithIsland – Podcast

by Pastor Mitch

Whenever someone says, no one lives on an island alone – at OSHi, Aiea we are living proof. We live on an island, but we are never alone. We welcome you to journey with us as we follow Jesus – through this life – finally arriving at the life to come. Aloha ke Akua!

• Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost Audio
  November 15, 2025
  On occasion, when I am meeting with the family of someone who died, they ask the unanswerable: "are they are in heaven?" The problem with the question is – I'm not God. I do not know the secret things or their last thoughts or if they just pretended to believe […]
• Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost Audio
  November 8, 2025
  When someone says that all religions are the same and lead to the same place – that is like saying all drinks taste the same because they are all water based. To believe anyone can believe anything and wind up in the same place is illogical and dangerous. It does […]
• All Saints Sunday Audio
  November 1, 2025
  Frederick Buechner said, “their sainthood (and ours) consists less of what they have done than what God has for some reason chosen to do through them. When you consider that St Mary Magdalene was possessed by seven devils, that St Augustine prayed, "Give me chastity and self-control, but not now," […]
• Sunday of the Reformation Audio
  October 25, 2025
  The time to read God's Word – to let it dwell in your heart and soul and marinate – is not when the lightning is flashing and thunder is booming and the world is coming apart. The time to read God's Word is when all is well – or at […]
• Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost audio
  October 18, 2025
  To sentimentalize something is to cling to how we feel about something or someone instead of holding to the truth. The greatest challenge is accepting that WE are the problem. We may try to point to a particular person or group or church or belief system and how they need […]
• Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost audio
  October 11, 2025
  We carry around the darkness and sin and pain of this world like a snail carries his shell. We know it's there – but we don't have to look it. We feel the weight of the shell but can still pretend it isn't there. We occasionally try to slide underneath […]
• Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Audio
  October 4, 2025
  It takes faith to trust in this Book and I know that doesn't always come easy. Just a reminder – this book doesn't save you – no book on earth or in the heavens can do that. What saves you is Jesus and only Jesus. This book just opens up […]
• Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost audio
  September 27, 2025
  Can you see what Jesus is sharing with us? If we want to build a perfect kingdom on earth – and put a big gate around it to keep all the bad people out – God will let us. But it may be all we get. Lazarus didn't have to […]