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		<title>Respecting Cultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a little over three years me and my family have been living on Maui, Hawaii, and it has been an amazing experience (which of course could mean a lot of things). But even though we live in Hawaii, we don’t really experience paradise every day, because we are not tourists on vacation.

One thing that is really interesting, coming from Brazil, is to understand the differences in the many cultures here in the Islands. This morning, listening to the radio we started laughing about the local jokes, but it only took three years for us to understand these cultures enough to get it and laugh!]]></description>
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		<title>A New Look on Salvation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our lives we do a lot of things that we are not really proud of, but as I was reading the most recent message from my spiritual father, Gary Hargrave, an amazing picture of Salvation came to me. I hope I can help you to see what I saw:]]></description>
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		<title>Be My Imitators, as I Am of Christ</title>
		<link>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/be-my-imitators-as-i-am-of-christ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Oliveira</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[example]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Be imitators of me. For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.” I Corithians 4:16-17

When I read these verses I can feel the heart of the Apostle Paul and his fatherly love for the people at Corinth. He was revealing his heart and giving them an example to follow. Having an example is the best way to learn. That is why little children love to imitate everything they see us doing. 
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		<title>Now I Know in Part, Then I Will Know Fully</title>
		<link>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/now-i-know-in-part-then-i-will-know-fully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pastor's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. ” (1 Corinthians 13:12, NAS)
 
I thought of picking up again the thread from the last blog. I kept thinking that we always think we know everything, you see that with children when you try to introduce some new food, a vegetable for instance, and at first they may say they don’t like that, but then sometimes with time they learn to like the new. I remember saying that “I don’t like this” and my mother would say “how do you know you don’t like this if you have never tried before?”
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		<title>When the Perfect Comes, the Partial Will be Done Away</title>
		<link>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/when-the-perfect-comes-the-partial-will-be-done-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“...but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. ” (1 Corinthians 13:10, NAS)

Last week as I was talking to my daughter the Lord started talking to me about how life is one big and long transition. When you think you have things figured out, there comes the next change in our lives!

Isn’t it true, a baby is born and is already crying because of the change of environment, the body functions also are not always comfortable, the baby has to learn how to feed and digest the milk, and then when the baby finally reaches a place of balance it is time to be weaned! And then come school, a brother or a sister, different foods and the changes that come with time and growth never stop.]]></description>
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		<title>If You Hear His Voice, Open the Door!</title>
		<link>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/if-you-hear-his-voice-open-the-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.'” (Revelation 3:20, NAS)

As I read this verse, I was thinking that it is not enough to have God standing at the door and knocking. When He is speaking and I hear His voice, it is still up to me to take the action of opening the door to let Him in. Without the corresponding action as a result of hearing the Word, nothing happens.

If you hear His voice, open the door!]]></description>
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		<title>The Word Works In Who Believes</title>
		<link>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/the-word-works-in-who-believes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/the-word-works-in-who-believes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[believe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Hargrave]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.” (1 Thessalonians 2:13, NAS)

In a recent message, Gary Hargrave used this scripture and what really stood out to me is that there are two things that need to happen when we hear a Word. First, we need to get over the barrier of receiving a Word through a human vessel, and second we also have to believe in that word for it to work in us.]]></description>
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		<title>It Is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive</title>
		<link>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/it-is-more-blessed-to-give-than-to-receive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/it-is-more-blessed-to-give-than-to-receive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pastor's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always heard this but never really stopped to think about this to actually understand the principle behind this blessing: "‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’" (Acts 20:35, NAS)

I read this verse last week, and did a little study on it, but instead of applying it to material things, I actually was thinking about how much it is more blessed to give forgiveness than to receive forgiveness. Somehow the Holy Spirit led me to read Luke 6 in connection with this verse, especially verses 30-38.]]></description>
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		<title>Being Filled Up to All the Fullness</title>
		<link>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/being-filled-up-to-all-the-fullness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/08/being-filled-up-to-all-the-fullness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. ” (Ephesians 3:19, NAS)

I have been living in this verse for a while now and there are two things that come to my mind: one is that the love of Christ surpasses knowledge, which means that I can’t understand how much He loves me, and two is that it is His plan for us to be filled up to all the fullness of God.

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		<title>Transformation</title>
		<link>http://www.haleokaula.org/2010/07/transformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Oliveira</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pastor's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2, NAS)

This is a verse that I have read and heard so many times in my life, but it is interesting to take a closer look in the word transformed and find the meaning in the Greek. It is also interesting to read this verse in other translations, like for instance the New Living Translation:]]></description>
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