Lakepoint Church with Brian Hofmeister

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Realizing the depth of the Fatherly connection with God is key, and it's all about embracing our roles as good daughters and sons. Jesus fully embraced his sonship, and he lived in perfect sync with the Father's guidance. In this teaching, we took Jesus' words and his example, and we unpacked how to nurture a close bond with our Heavenly Father.  Support the show

We all have obstacles in coming to God.  Some are the hurts we carry for Christmas, other’s are hurts and voids people have done to us.  We miss the mark in letting a Father be at home by expecting God to give without relationship (prodigal 1), or to let us earn it by what we give (prodigal 2).  Jesus leaned into God’s constant love. Support the show

We learn about our faith through Jesus, but the real goal is to understand and feel the love of the Father. Last week, we talked about the adventure that God gives us in our faith journey. He is leading us somewhere amazing, and when our Heavenly Dad is with us, the adventure is just beetter. This week, we will focus on changing our perspective on Jesus and what he came to do. He is the savior of...

If Dad’s with you, and loves you, everything is different.   That is the point of Christmas.  You have a God who is also a Father.  This Father sent his son, to tell you and the whole world, how much he loves you. It’s going to be fun Christmas season here at Lakepoint, getting to know Father of Christmas.  God the Father, his love, the adventures he's preparing for you.  Support the show

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Knowing what you believe comes from knowing everything the Bible has to say about any given topic. You cannot get the Bible to say anything you want it to say, you get to gather what it does say.  This is as an exercise of surrendering your opinions/preferences to the authority of scripture even more than it is a study skill.  This practice is called Systematic Theology, and we’re going to practic...

Every single belief formed by scripture may be equally true, but they're not equally important. This sermon forms a framework and practice for majoring on the majors, and minoring on the minors.  Support the show

One of the beauties and burden-breakers of interpreting scripture, is that it’s not all on you, it’s meant to be interpreted alongside others.  That’s what makes the church so special; it’s a place for truth and grace to surface in community.  We’re doing extended table time this Sunday to experience what every Missional Community is doing on a weekly basis - group interpretation.  You’ll be equip...

All scripture is God breathed, useable, and authoritative on matters of faith and pratice, but what do you do on all those sticky spots where the faith it teaches seems inconsistent, and the practice it teaches just doesn’t make any sense at all?   Did Jonah really have a whale?  Do women really not get to speak in church?  Was there one angel or two at the tomb? Is the God of the Old Testament re...

Have you ever met a Christian who sounded like they knew the Bible really well, but you really couldn’t stomach being around them and the way they acted toward people?  It’s a sticky spot of interpretation - when people arrive at the right words of what scripture says to be true, but don’t end up living the right ways that scripture is aiming at. None of us want to be hypocrites.  None of us think...

We have dedicated this Fall to the Practice of Scripture, and lots of families are engaging with scripture every day in various ways. It's been fun to hear stories of people who have been reading scripture for their entire lives and people who are just starting the journey. This week's sermon will give you some very helpful insights into your journey of reading/understanding scripture. W...

An ancient ancient practice that’s been around since the 4th Century is called Lectio Divina (“Divine Reading”), and it’s being reclaimed for our time.  You may have already heard of it or have tried it.  The practice, as we’re receiving it from tradition, is intending to give us a little structure for reading the scripture with a slow - active - attentive LISTENING ear to the Holy Spirit.  Severa...

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Ok. So, you've decided to give The Practice of Scripture a chance in your daily life. You've committed to a "daily 20" with God, and you started reading. Now what? This week's teaching is aimed at helping you understand what you're reading, the very basics. How do I know the context of this story? How does this piece of scripture contribute to the entire library of sc...

Do you feel like your plan for spiritual growth is resilient? Do you have a plan for spiritual growth? Maybe these questions make you squirm with a little bit of Catholic guilt, but those questions can totally translate to any other area of our life. Is your plan for getting into better shape resilient? Do you have a plan to be physically healthy? You get the idea. If we hope for growth in any are...

For the next 12 weeks, we will be focusing the Sunday morning teaching on one spiritual practice, scripture. If you are interested in becoming a disciple of Jesus or growing in your discipleship to Jesus, scripture is  critical to your development! This week, Brian guides us through the story arc of scripture, and guides us to an understanding of how to hold scripture as a whole story instead of f...

Pretty much every Sunday we get together. We enjoy an hour together and we go home. Most of us have been a part of other churches. For some, Lakepoint is our first church experience. We are a hodge-podge group of people who are trying to figure out how to live a spiritually vibrant life in our everyday life. If you look around on a Sunday, that's exactly what you're going to see. Very di...

Trace the story of God throughout millennia, and you'll find examples over and over again where it seems like people talked God into changing His plan. Why would the creator of the universe and the architect of time itself change his course, for anyone?  Even though we will never quite grasp how or why God would respond to our prayers, it's probably worth our time to study the instances...

We sometimes think the goal is to be dry, untouched by the environment/circumstances. But the greater victory is to be soaking wet and still standing. Then you know that what you’re made of won’t wash away when things get difficult. This week, we have the gift of a pastor swap. Pastor Brian McKee is the lead pastor of City of Light Church in Milwaukee. In 2016, Lakepoint had the privilege of suppo...

Do you feel like things are shifting? Like "different" is coming your way? Are you looking into binoculars and seeing the last couple months of 2023, and thinking, "wow, looks like big changes are coming!"?  Do you feel like things need to stay the same? Like for once in your life, you just want to know what to expect? Are you feeling the small, subtle movement of God nudging y...

As each of us spend more time with Jesus, as we go deeper with him, we will hear him say some pretty crazy things. Today, in our second to last sermon in the book of Mark (we've been mainly studying the Gospel of Mark for the past 2 years), we look at the impossible command that Jesus gave to his apprentices, "you feed them." Support the show

Words are such a powerful part of the human experience! They can lift up, tear down, point to truth and mislead. Sometimes, words can bring great clarity and sometimes confusion. Today, we study a word that is very common in our language even though many of us have different definitions of it. As a community that is rooted around scripture, we've got lots of scripture packed into this teachin...

Jesus said, "you are the light of the world." The very same voice that made light called his disciples light. And yet, if we are light, couldn't we expect that we would be welcome to illumine darkness around us?  This week, Pastor Ed takes some time to go through the various reasons that people in our culture would prefer darkness over the light of Jesus. Jesus said, "if the wo...