Lakepoint Church with Brian Hofmeister

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A Messiah was promised to us so many times, but then they there were 400 years that people were left waiting in the silence with no word or progress from God.  When Jesus came, few realized it, and even fewer were impressed by it.  Finding hush for our souls often means becoming okay with the wait. Support the show

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We sing O Little Town of Bethlehem most of the time with this notion that everything was "still." The somehow the "deep and dreamless sleep" was the reality for the people there, when it was actually a local center for commerce. There was plenty of hustle. There was plenty of rush.  The beauty of revelation came to some men who were outcasts. They were "outside the rush.&q...

Another holiday season is upon us, and there's a lot of things that MUST be done! We've got this tight window of time to pull off many thing and if something is not done, that will ruin the holidays for everyone around us, right?  As many times as we've heard the phrase "Jesus is the reason for the season," maybe we need to take a different perspective on balancing our sel...

"From the gravest of all valleys Come the pastures we call grace A mighty river flowing upwards From a deep but empty grave" - Hillsong United This is the final week of a 3 week series considering the stories in Mark 5. We've looked at how the stories of a 12 year old girl and a broken and rejected woman collided in a river of grace when they met Jesus.  This week, special guest Tyl...

This week, Pastor Cammie brought a new perspective on Mark 5:21-43. She talked about fear and anxiety. Sometimes fear and anxiety are not necessarily a bad thing. Fear can help us clearly see the need for God and some anxiety can keep us safe. Both can help lead us to faith. Support the show

This Sunday Pastor Brian made the focus about one. Just one person that is special. Jesus cared about this person and they are special to us all. The one person who maybe doesn’t get the attention they deserve. This Sunday, it was about - YOU! Support the show

Anxiety gets you restless enough to pray for something. Abiding brings you back to rest as you pray for it.  Back in April, we had a prayer initiative that was similar to what we are doing right now. Out of that week, we noticed that there were 7 themes in people's "heavy prayers." Each one of the 7 themes could be a sermon, but Pastor Brian and Pastor Cammie did their best to disti...

It’s a defining shift in our discipleship when we learn that we can sit down with God and not get up until he gives you something that is from his voice and his heart.  Talking with God not to God. The one thing anyone should always get from their prayers, is God as their gift, his presence. Support the show

Name the problem. That's the beginning of finding a solution, right? You can't fix something when you haven't identified what's broken. When it comes to faith, how do we understand our own lack of belief? How do we diagnose our cynicism, our hesitancy or our flat out unbelief? Support the show

Looking back, looking forward and soaking in the now. God is moving and shaking things up. He has a good plan in this world, and Lakepoint gets to be a small part of that. We don't know exactly what it looks like, but we've got enough direction to take the first step. This is a short and special sermon from pastor Brian as he teaches at the 10 Year Anniversary party on October 8th, 2022....

The 21st century has not equipped humanity for the art of waiting. We have our groceries delivered, our food ready before we get to restaurants, our newspaper delivered to our pocket and our children magically transformed into perfect little humans immediately after attending public schools (insert eye-roll here). We just aren't equipped for the long, slow process of letting something grow un...

Most of us have a place in our hearts that is "good ground," another part that's "weed infested" and others that are a matted, stony path. The core of the issue is obedience. When you obey, the ground of your heart becomes more ready for future seeds. If you're listening to this, you probably want for your heart to be "good ground."  Support the show

Weeds.  What you let grow next to you outgrows you.  Worry and Anxiety, deceitfulness of wealth, and everything else you 'want' are weeds growing next to you. These 'weeds' in its many forms are in us and in others and, like weeds, will choke out the gospel if we let it grow side by side. When mature, one will win.  And we all know that weeds always grow faster and uglier, than...

Seed comes from Harvest. Harvest comes from Growth. Growth comes from Roots. Roots come from Good Soil. Jesus talked about "fruit" a lot. He wasn't known as a vegetarian, but maybe you'd think he was by reading his teachings. The funny thing is that Jesus never clearly defined what the metaphor of fruit, in his teachings, was referring to. He left it up to our imagination. What...

Pastor Brian & Melissa explain a parable, teaching us that not everyone is ready to grow.  ROCKS. They can keep a good seed (gospel) from soil and creating strong roots (faith). Many of us have been given the seed and received it, but what is in our way to make space for it to grow? Support the show

Pastor Ed called this week's sermon one of the most important of his career. He laid out scriptures that challenged our natural tendency to become insular and complaisant. Walking in the compassion of Jesus is not going to be our natural bent, but with the power of the Holy Spirit, we can be world changers if we obey the Holy Spirit in moments where compassion is needed.  Support the show

When Jesus showed up, he really showed up! After he was baptized by his cousin John, Jesus seemed to just travel around and heal people. Everywhere he went, it seems, he healed people. How do we make sense of these stories? How do these stories affect life in the 21st century? Pastor Aaron digs into multiple passages from the Gospel of Mark to start the conversation...why did Jesus heal, who did h...

Remember when your parents would stop you in your tracks and remind you to say "thank you"? They were trying to teach us to express our gratefulness when we received things. When scripture says, "In everything give thanks..." what does it mean? Are we seriously supposed to thank God for struggle, for death, for injustice? Pastor Ed brings us a timely word about what it looks li...

In the 21st century, we tend to put God in a box. God does this. God doesn't do that. And so on. But, what if God can do ANYTHING? What if God rules over everything? And, add to that the possibility that God is the definition of love, where does that put us? So... God has complete control, He is completely love and somehow I think that I can say what God will/won't do? Today, we dig into...

Pastor Aaron gave us an honest reading into the stories of Jesus and we see Him quite perturbed.  Often.  What are those things that frustrated Jesus?  And why do we always try to read those text with a smiley face emoji that isn’t there? Pastor Aaron read passages relating to Jesus being upset at Religious Leaders, His Own People, those who don't produce 'fruit' and those who build...

Scripture is full of people who surrendered everything to God, but oftentimes, we neglect to look at the circumstances that led to our hero's "big faith." If we look closely, we see patterns of a process. The process of faith is that of continual growth. Just when you think you've arrived, God calls you to reach higher.  This week, we have a special guest, Jerod, who has been o...

Throughout history, children have been seen as either a means to an end or an inconvenience. When Jesus showed up on the scene, children were seen as a liability in first century Rome. They were just in the way of the power hungry political religious systems.  When Jesus showed up on the scene, he spoke to women, healed the sick and celebrated the poor. After all of that, he says, 'you guys r...