Lakepoint Church with Brian Hofmeister

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In a world of quick fixes, we are consistently tempted to seek a silver bullet for our spiritual ruts. The journey of becoming like Jesus doesn't really include quick fixes, but when you want to change, there is a pathway for you. It looks a lot like dinner. It looks a lot like traveling and spending time together. It looks a lot like every day life.  Support the show

The scripture that we study is over 2,000 years old, and we often find ourselves either confused or glossing over references to ancient ideas or practices. This week, Pastor Brian tackles a topic that makes everyone a little uncomfortable, circumcision. It's mentioned a LOT in our Holy Scriptures, and many of us would have a hard time explaining why. This explanation also led us to talk about...

In Christian language, we often sing words like, "all to Jesus, I surrender" or "Christ is enough for me" or "You are everything to me." It's important to say things like that, but what does it mean for each of those phrases to actually be fully realized. The great evangelist Apostle Paul said that "Christ is everything and in everything." This week, we...

How do people see you? Mostly people make a first judgement about you by the style of clothes you wear and even how you wear them. It's a first impression that may or may not reflect who you actually are, but sometimes, first impressions matter.  As disciples of Jesus, we are admonished over and over in scripture to be known for exceptional, over the top, positive character traits. How do we...

In this sermon, Pastor Ed  deliveres a powerful and challenging message that resonates deeply with all of us who want to do our best at work (whether you get paid for your work, you're a stay at home parent, in school or retired). If you missed the sermon or would like to revisit it, you can watch it [here](insert link). The invitation of scripture is to do everything with a singleness of hea...

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This message, although it was sketched out months ago, before we made plans to celebrate high school graduates, was the perfect send-off, the perfect charge for a whole bunch of budding adults. The charge was to go, with confidence, into a world that could very  well  be hostile to their faith.  As a believer, whether you're a high school graduate or a grandparent of those graduates, you can...

Only the Holy Spirit can make what’s dead come alive in you God doesn’t need you to prove yourself as a great person, Christ already proved that for you.  Because of this, you can live free of striving, free of pressure, and you can focus your eyes on the people that Jesus has placed around you to disciple.  In the middle of trying to do all the things for everyone else and still take care of ours...

So many need a circle of everyday relationships to find Jesus. So many need a circle of everyday relationships to follow Jesus further. We truly believe that we can give every man woman and child in Muskego (and the surrounding area), a repeated chance to experience Jesus --- one circle at a time.   Our goal as a church...to connect people with Jesus in everyday life through everyday relationships...

Not being able to feel or see God like you used to?  Maybe it’s because the self-examination took you so deep and dark in the pit of the false self that you couldn’t see anymore.  Maybe it’s because you’re in a dessert between two lands, cut off from other necessities you no longer feel or know your true self.   This sermon is actually a mixture of music, scripture readings and teaching. The inten...

We can do better.  And that makes us feel worse.  Everything we do seems to reinforce at some time or another that “I am a bad person.”  Which is actually true, but the false self is untrue when it says, “I’m an unloveable person.”  We need to learn to repent, but as much or moreso we need to learn that we are loved even as the sinful selves we are, love is not waiting for us to repent before he l...

“Love costs, love hurts, love engages the whole of the self.  Indeed, love, as a slowly unfolding process, involves self-giving and self-transcendence that can only happen if there is already a healthy self-possession and a secure sense that self-gift will not become self-destruction.” - Philip Sheldrake Your surrender can make a difference in the life of someone else. Whether it's systemic c...

In a world obsessed with productivity and achievement, Jesus invites us into a different path—a path of rest and surrender. This Sunday we explored the radical concept of Sabbath and how it could be the next invitation of your spiritual journey. Sabbath is a time to come back to Jesus, sync up with the Holy Spirit, and connect with our truest selves. It allows us to peel back the layers of protect...

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Through the  story of Jesus' crucifixion and his proactive forgiveness to those murdering him, we discover the boundless mercy and love God has for us, even in our darkest moments. If Jesus extends that kind of forgiveness to that group of people, we can trust him when he says "if we confess sin, he is faithful and just to forgive." When we choose to trust the promise of scripture,...

This week, we explore the concept of owning our own part of forgiveness. Forgiveness starts with us, in our own hearts. Just as Jesus paid the price for our sins on the cross, we are called to extend forgiveness at our own expense. We must own our part in a conflict or situation, offering sincere apologies, understanding, and explanations to the person who has hurt us. Our goal is to create opport...

In this sermon we learned how to examine the wound someone else caused you. We can own how it feels, own what to do about it, but blaming the incident never make a healing treatment.   In many cases, we’ve become our wounds (false self).  We know ourselves by the hurts we carry.  Others notice us by the hurts we carry (Hurt people keep hurting people - and you’re one of the them). We tend to tell...

As we have been for a few weeks, we encourage you to review, re-listen and journal alongside this sermon.  The false self keeps people out, the true self welcomes people in alongside Jesus. That’s the difference… Jesus is in the middle and makes a safe playground, otherwise we’re constantly afraid of getting hurt (again).  Salvation is deeper by surrendering self to God alongside others. Here are...

How often are you seeking God’s truth in your feelings, in the information you receive?  Do you pay attention to your feelings when they warn you? Or are you numbing out and absorbing them, allowing them to stick? Are you allowing yourself to live up to the standard of the people around you, comparing yourself, doing what you “should” do by other people’s standards? Does culture have a hold on you...

The grain offering was a “tithe” symbolizing the surrender of the first 10% of our harvest to God. This offering connects to the overarching theme of surrendering a part of our lives upfront, to open up surrender in the rest of our lives. This is the first and best, not the leftovers. As New Testament Christians, we are called to give more than the Old Testament tithe. Not just to a church organiz...

We started Self-Examination in our first sermon of the series ( just by jumping in), but in this teaching we learn what Self-Examination is and how to practice it. We take a big look within at who we’ve become with regular looks thereafter (practicing daily/weekly Examen). It’s a sin thing, but not so simple as a sin thing.  It’s surrendering the false self that’s “working for you.”   For your jou...

A false storyline has been given to you.  Something you had to be or do to be loved in this world.  Maybe it was repeated enough, or maybe it hit you when you were young and fragile enough - but one way or another you believed it.  And as you lived out that belief it was confirmed to be true - the more you lived that false storyline the better it went for you - more love, or at least more acceptan...

Moses and Jeremiah, despite feeling inadequate at the beginning of their ministry, grew closer to God through openness, questioning, and sometimes confrontation.  A relationship with God requires daily presence, vulnerability, and surrender to His plans, rather than the formula of a religious checklist.  God has called you to make a difference on the earth. His call might not be easy, but he promi...

We don't have a lot of annual traditions at Lakepoint, but Vision Sunday is a very important one to us! Yesterday, Pastor Brian shared all about Lakepoint's vision, who we are as a church and how we interact with our community during the week (as a Community Center).  If you are new to our church family or if you are considering a visit to Lakepoint, this talk will give you a good pictur...