In Love Always

by Pastor Dale Saito

Weekly Devotionals

  • A Thanksgiving Prayer Like No Other

    Dear Family and Friends, Someone hit our parked car in a parking lot this week. And chose to not leave a note. Our grandson first saw the damage – it was eye level for him. As for me, I was a grouch for the rest of today. Then I read this verse to prepare our

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  • When The Day After Means More Than The Day

    Dear Family and Friends, I had a very scary thought yesterday. It was so startling I have to ask – am I the only one who’s thinking this way? What was I thinking? I found myself looking forward to the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, rather than the day set aside for giving thanks –

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  • What To Do When Things Don’t Go Your Way

    Dear Family and Friends, We have been through many changes over the past five years. The pandemic started, abated and left us with another annual vaccine. We no longer have shortages of toilet paper and other goods, just shrinkages. Extreme weather, 100+ year storms and rising sea levels are the new norms. The lessons learned

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  • Why There Will Be A Wednesday This Week

    Dear Family and Friends, We went trick or treating with our two-year-old grandson this week. He was adorable. I’m not sure who received more treats – him or us. Let me share two observations from our Ala Moana SC experience.  Honolulu does NOT have a child birth problem as does Japan and Korea. And although

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  • The Library And The Brothel

    Dear Family and Friends, Have you ever visited a place and found it was not how you imagined it would be? For me, that was Ephesus in modern day Turkey. As we all know, Ephesus is mentioned all over the New Testament – in Acts, Ephesians, 1 Corinthians, 1 & 2 Timothy and Revelation. Yet

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  • What Are You Hoping For On November 5th?

    Dear Family and Friends, In case you were wondering, we just returned from visiting sites in Greece and Turkey where Paul preached, planted churches and was even run out of town. There is much to share but let me start with the site mentioned in the Bible that is most pertinent to us today –

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  • Warning, Dangerous Times Are Ahead

    Dear Family and Friends, As a pastor of a church, I took Paul’s directives to Timothy to heart. “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.”  ‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭4‬:‭13‬ ‭NIV‬‬ For this reason, the messages to the church centered on the Bible. Our practice was to avoid topics

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  • How We See Ourselves, Then And Now

    Dear Family and Friends, I recently did something for the first time in years. I read a secular book, a bestseller by David Brooks, called How To Know A Person. I was curious to learn about building relationships from a secular point of view. I’ve since learned this book is not quite secular. Mr. Brooks

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  • Why Is My Transformation Taking So Long?

    Dear Family and Friends, One of the duties of my past life was playing the game of golf. In my line of business, it was expected. I enjoyed golfing, but to me it was just a game. Unlike one my colleagues who, quite honestly, I didn’t care to golf with. Why? He was overly competitive.

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  • A Good Name

    Dear Family and Friends, One of the benefits of being a two year old is when Papa and Nana are calling your name, you can totally ignore them and act like you have no idea what they’re saying. I have a confession: God called on me to share the following quote from Saint Augustine of

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