Kipona Aloha – Week 10 | Overcoming The World

You’re chasing a good life — more comfort, more pleasure, more satisfaction — and still feeling empty, lonely, or anxious. Relationships feel transactional, commitments thin, and the promise of “just be happy” keeps slipping out of reach. The sermon cuts straight to that tension: why the pursuit of personal happiness so often leads to more wanting, not more life. The message names three Greek words for life — survival (bios), the inner, satisfying self (psuche), and Zoe, the divine, shared life God offers — and shows why only Zoe breaks the cycle. Rather than a pep talk, it traces how life comes by “water and blood”: God becoming one of us and giving his life so we might die to self and enter true communion. Expect an honest, unexpected invitation to trade a self-centered comfort for a life that surprises you in its depth and generosity.