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Weekly messages from Brian Hofmeister and other speakers from Lakepoint Church in Muskego. For more information visit lakepointmuskego.org.

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Weekly messages from Brian Hofmeister and other speakers from Lakepoint Church in Muskego. For more information visit lakepointmuskego.org.

    Deeper Journey: Owning Your Part in Making it Right - Forgiveness Part 2

    Deeper Journey: Owning Your Part in Making it Right - Forgiveness Part 2

    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 opportunities for growth and restoration between us and others, recognizing that this process may not always lead to immediate reconciliation. We also understand the need for differentiation, allowing each person to have their own response and setting boundaries when necessary. We acknowledge that forgiveness is not always easy, but it is ultimately an act of obedience and a reflection of God's reckless love for us. Through the power of forgiveness, we can experience healing and reconciliation, balancing ourselves at the foot of the cross where both the body of Christ and His blood were shed for us and for those who have hurt us.
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    Deeper Journey: The Wounds You’ve Become - Forgiveness Part 1 (Leviticus 19.17-18, 2 Corinthians 4.7-10)

    Deeper Journey: The Wounds You’ve Become - Forgiveness Part 1 (Leviticus 19.17-18, 2 Corinthians 4.7-10)

    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 our stories as the hero or the victim (and accentuate either highlight). We should see and tell it as rescued and redeemed.

    Salvation is deeper by surrendering to forgiveness.

    Personal Question: How have the wounds I’ve carried shaped my story, my identity, my decisions, and my mind, for better or for worse?
    Community Question: How has the cross of Jesus shaped the way I forgive?


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    Deeper Journey: Being Lonely is a Stupid Choice

    Deeper Journey: Being Lonely is a Stupid Choice

    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 the 2 questions that we were asked to process alongside someone we trust spiritually (or in your Missional Community). 
    Personal Question: Are any of my attempts to manage my loneliness actually taking me into a greater place of loneliness? (notice any relational pattern that’s second-rate to real love).
    Community Question: What story do I have that I want to celebrate with a faith community?  (notice how God met a prayer, gave more than asked for, or just adds joy to everyday life).
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    Deeper Journey: The Shame You're Smarter Than (Leviticus 2, Romans 6-7)

    Deeper Journey: The Shame You're Smarter Than (Leviticus 2, Romans 6-7)

    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?  Or are you boldly living your life as the person you were created to be?

    Intimacy is at stake here and not an intimacy in human form. An intimacy so much more freeing and pure- like Adam and Eve, naked and feeling no shame in the garden. With a strong sense of who they are and a close communion with God. As we continue to chip away pieces of our false self, we are becoming more and more aware of ourselves as God’s creation and less of ourselves as our own creation. As we continue to chip away pieces, we will be tempted to find a new way, a new comparison. As we continue to chip away pieces, we will find, in our vulnerability the desire to take control.

    And it’s a constant battle for truth. 
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    Deeper Journey: Tiny Choices Every Single Day (Leviticus 2, Romans 12:1-2)

    Deeper Journey: Tiny Choices Every Single Day (Leviticus 2, Romans 12:1-2)

    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 organization, not just to a good cause. Generosity, giving our first and our best, should be the posture of our lives. This goes far beyond money. This principle touches our time, our attitude, our gratefulness, our family priorities and a hundred other things.

    This is the point where idea of "surrender" turns into a regular spiritual "practice." We engage in this practice by consistently offering small aspects of our lives to God as a form of worship. As time passes, we begin to realize that there are additional small things that can be joyfully given to God. A lifelong commitment to this type of progress can lead to a life where what we've gained far exceed what has been given. 

    Here are the 2 questions that we were asked to process alongside someone we trust spiritually (or in your Missional Community). 
    Personal Question: What’s the smallest thing that I’m having the biggest problem surrendering to God? 
    Community Question: What small thing surrender (10%) would make me more alive and surrendered to God in the big things (90%)?
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    Deeper Journey: Burn it All and Start Over (Leviticus 1 & Matthew 3)

    Deeper Journey: Burn it All and Start Over (Leviticus 1 & Matthew 3)

    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 journal time: 
    Personal Question: What evidence in my life is indicating that I am placing inordinate value in 1) What I have, 2) What I do, 3) What others think of me?
    Community Question: Where am I at in surrendering my whole self to God?  (my faith, my baptism, my return to that faith & baptism)
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