Wind Ministries Podcast

What happens to us when we see Jesus as He is? What teaches us to respond to His presence? Our culture? Our religious upbringing? Our skills? When Peter sees the glory of God and the law and the prophets he immediately attempts to put a plan into action, he tries to respond. The proper response in hindsight was to sit in silence and listen, not to pontificate, but that is what we tend to do. When we catch a sight of the glory of God we want to do something about it, but often we need direction, instruction, and formation. We are to simply wait and listen.  Tune in as Joshua Hoffert talks about how our culture fails when it comes to responding to the presence of Christ.

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"A young boy who is berated and beaten by his father  learns the valuable lesson that he is the problem. Its a valuable lesson because it becomes the value of his life. The value of his life is that my father doesn't love me, I'm a danger, and I'm unlovely. Then the easiest assumption to make is that the Heavenly Father doesn't love him.  But it's not his fault and he never had anyone to tell him that. At least not as a young boy."

Trauma is not so much understood as the traumatic event that took place, but as the symptoms that have lingered for years. Tune in as Joshua Hoffert talks about trauma, recovery, fight/flight/freeze, and where Jesus fits in it all.

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The six characteristics of a healed identity are: spontaneous love, spontaneous generosity, people of peace, less thinking about you and more thinking about others, loving without withholding, and loving without the need to be loved in return. However, we often get stuck on the path to maturity. What does it look like to overcome the obstacles and move into maturity?

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Come, my Light, illumine my darkness.
Come, my Life, and revive me from death.
Come, my Physician, and heal my wounds.
Come, Flame of divine love, and burn up the thorns of my sins, kindling my heart with the flame of thy love.
Come, my King, sit upon the throne of my heart and reign there.
For thou alone art my King and my Lord.
St Dimitrii of Rostov, Oxford Book of Prayer

How do we move our identity from fear to joy? What roles do community and relationships play in our formation? How does Christ use others to form us in His image? Join Josh Hoffert and explore some thoughts about these questions and more.

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"Everything pertaining to healing begins in the beauty of God...it also ends in the beauty of God. All of life is the beauty of God. The grand call of your life is to behold Him in His glory and in His beauty. Nothing else makes life so meaningful and worthwhile."

God does not divorce your identity from your history. We separate our identity from our history making us less than real persons. We think of ourselves esoterically or in broad labels. We label ourselves as courageous, fearful, peaceful,  or loving and never even consider the compilation of memories and events that have made us the people we are today. God does not think of you in generalities, but longs ot engage with your story and forge His goodness within you.

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With the ongoing death of cultural Christianity, what does it look like to become the people of God? What does it mean to have our identity formed and healed?

Ephesians 2:1-5 "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)."

The culture that we grow up in (the course of this world) and the spirit of this age (the prince of the power of the air) have informed the people that we have become. How have I been formed by these powerful influences? Listen as Joshua Hoffert talks about how we have been formed and what we can do about it.

This talk was recorded at Summerside Community Church on January 9, 2022.

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