Building faithfully in broken kingdoms | Pastor Will Hawk | 12 April 2026

Apr 12, 2026  •  Pastor Will Hawk

We start a new series in Daniel by tracing how God’s people end up in Babylon and what it means to live faithful lives inside a broken kingdom. We wrestle with God’s discipline, the pain of paying for sins we didn’t choose, and the hope that God never wastes sacrifice because he did not waste his Son. 

• why the church turns to the Book of Daniel now and what faithfulness can look like in a fractured culture 
• the storyline from creation to exile and the warning against wanting the best of God and the world 
• Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, and the pressure to treat God as one option among many 
• the core theology of Daniel: one God over all places, all times, and all power 
• why God oversees discipline needed for good ends 
• suffering reframed as God removing goodness rather than simply adding pain 
• a clear picture of hell as the absence of God’s good gifts 
• Manasseh, leadership sin, and why judgment can be appropriate 
• the reality of paying for the sins of parents and rulers we did not pick 
• God never wastes sacrifice and God never wastes faithfulness 
• how Daniel’s story echoes Jesus through Psalm 22 and the promise of hope 



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