Genesis Church Podcast

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Here at Genesis we are not defined the four walls that we meet in, so wherever you are listening from today, we are glad that you could join our podcast! We pray that what you experience today will guide you closer to the ways of Jesus and bring transformation to your life. We want to connect with you and there are many simple ways! 1. Go to our website: www.genesischurchorlando.com and click the NEW HERE card 2. TEXT us! Text “Genesis Connect” to 94090 as one of our team members are waiting to hear follow up with your questions 3. Follow us. Click that subscribe button on YouTube, or follow us on Facebook and Instagram @genesischurchorlando

  1. 1d ago

    Dry Does Not Mean Dead | Psalm 126

    You've prayed and prayed, and nothing has changed. The marriage is still struggling. The kids are still wandering. The diagnosis is still there. Stay in a hard season long enough and it starts to convince you it's permanent. Psalm 126 is six verses, written for people who know what it's like to wait, to weep, and to watch God turn everything around. Pastor Chad preaches it from inside his own season of tears and walks through three ways to find joy in the middle of your pain: remember His faithfulness, request His restoration, and rely on His promise. The Negev is a dry, barren wasteland with no permanent rivers, right up until it rains. Then, in an instant, what looked dead is flooded. That's the picture behind verse 4. Dry does not mean dead. Some of us have put a period where God only wants a comma. And the tears you're sowing right now are not the end of the story. ----------------------- Download our free Psalms journal and discussion guide at genesischurchorlando.com. 🙏 Go Deeper: 📥 Download the Psalms Journal & discussion guide: https://genesischurchorlando.com https://linktr.ee/genesischurchorlando 🎙️ Join us on the Post Sunday Podcast — LIVE Mondays 10:30am on Instagram & X, on-demand Tuesdays on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

    Dry Does Not Mean Dead | Psalm 126

  2. Sep 29

    Who Owns Your Mouth? | Psalm 12

    "Who is master over us?" That's not a line from an atheist. In Psalm 12, it's coming out of the mouths of God's own people. Pastor Tim opens a new stretch of the Psalms focused on spiritual formation. The psalmist cries out that the faithful have vanished. Not the religious, the faithful. People still call on God and still show up to church, but they speak with a "double heart," in the Hebrew literally a heart and a heart. One says what people want to hear. The other does whatever it wants. Then God stands up and speaks. His words are pure, like silver refined seven times, and they're what forms faithful people in a wicked generation. Your speech reveals your allegiance. Death and life are in the tongue. The question isn't what words you're allowed to say. It's who owns your mouth. Scripture: Psalm 12, Deuteronomy 6, Proverbs 18:21, Matthew 12:34-37, James 3. ----------------------- Download our free Psalms journal and discussion guide at genesischurchorlando.com. 🙏 Go Deeper: 📥 Download the Psalms Journal & discussion guide: https://genesischurchorlando.com https://linktr.ee/genesischurchorlando 🎙️ Join us on the Post Sunday Podcast — LIVE Mondays 10:30am on Instagram & X, on-demand Tuesdays on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

    Who Owns Your Mouth? | Psalm 12

  3. Sep 20

    Loud Songs, Hard Hearts | Psalm 95

    "If You would just do this, then I would." Most of us have prayed some version of it. Psalm 95 was written for the people who already got their answer, and still asked. Pastor Tim opens in Exodus 17, at a place called Massah and Meribah, where a nation that had watched ten plagues, walked through a parted sea, and eaten bread off the ground asked out loud, "Is the LORD among us or not?" Then he turns to Psalm 95 and shows you that the psalmist buried that story inside a worship song on purpose. The psalm starts loud. Sing. Shout. Make a joyful noise. Halfway through it drops to its knees. And then God Himself starts speaking, and it stops being a worship song and becomes a warning. Three layers of thanks: gratitude, acknowledgement, confession. Most of us only ever practice the first. And you can sing loudly in a service and still listen poorly to the voice of God. Scripture: Psalm 95, Exodus 15, Exodus 17, Numbers 14, Hebrews 3-4. ----------------------- Download our free Psalms journal and discussion guide at genesischurchorlando.com. 🙏 Go Deeper: 📥 Download the Psalms Journal & discussion guide: https://genesischurchorlando.com https://linktr.ee/genesischurchorlando 🎙️ Join us on the Post Sunday Podcast — LIVE Mondays 10:30am on Instagram & X, on-demand Tuesdays on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

    Loud Songs, Hard Hearts | Psalm 95

  4. Sep 14

    I'd Rather Be (Kickoff Sunday) | Psalm 84

    Nobody puts "doorkeeper" on a business card. Kickoff Sunday looked different this year. Worship and the Word together, and five pastors on one stage answering the same question: what actually makes this a lovely place to dwell? Psalm 84 was written by worship leaders. Temple platform, real titles, real influence. And what they wrote down was this: I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. Blessed doesn't mean comfortable. It means to flourish, to be deeply well-positioned. And whatever owns your heart will eventually direct your feet. Scripture: Psalm 84, Ephesians 4, Acts 1. Free study guide at genesischurchorlando.com. Genesis Church Orlando — we think life the way God intended.

    I'd Rather Be (Kickoff Sunday) | Psalm 84

  5. Sep 6

    Don't Mistake Speed for Strength | Psalm 92

    You walked in tired. Not sleepy — tired. There's a difference, and a three-day weekend isn't going to touch it. Labor Day started in 1883 with a crowd of people in New York City saying, "We are being worked to the bone and we cannot survive this." You don't work twelve-hour days seven days a week. But you walked in this weekend saying the exact same sentence they did. In this message, Pastor Tim opens Psalm 92 — the only psalm in all 150 written specifically for the Sabbath, and written not just to be read but to be sung. And instead of teaching about rest, we practiced it. This is a full hour of the church stopping together: writing down the season we're actually in, naming the Shepherd we actually need, declaring God's goodness out loud, singing, praying, and taking communion. The heart of it is a comparison David makes and most of us skip right past. The wicked, he says, flourish like grass. Green, fast, everywhere — and gone by the next season. The righteous flourish like a palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Palms take decades. Cedars take generations. And when the hurricane comes through, the palm is still standing. So when you look around and the people cutting corners seem to be winning, you have two choices. Chase their pattern and burn out running a race God never entered you in. Or plant yourself, dig your roots down, and flourish for a lot longer than a season. Don't mistake speed for strength. And don't mistake productivity for the presence of God. Because Sabbath didn't start in Egypt — it started in Eden. Before Adam ever lifted a finger, God told him to rest, and the reason was simple: God was already working before you got here, and He'll keep working when you're gone. You are not the one holding it together. This one is meant to be participated in, not just listened to. Get a card or open your notes app. Write the season you're in. Write the Shepherd you need. Write His goodness. Then stop. Scripture Reference: Psalm 92 · Psalm 23 · Genesis 2 · Exodus 20 · Romans 12:2 · Ephesians 4:12 · Mark 2:27 · Hebrews 4 · Matthew 26 · John 3:16 ----------------------- Download our free Psalms journal and discussion guide at genesischurchorlando.com. 🙏 Go Deeper: 📥 Download the Psalms Journal & discussion guide: https://genesischurchorlando.com https://linktr.ee/genesischurchorlando 🎙️ Join us on the Post Sunday Podcast — LIVE Mondays 10:30am on Instagram & X, on-demand Tuesdays on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

    Don't Mistake Speed for Strength | Psalm 92

  6. Aug 30

    You Built God a Box | Psalm 23:6

    You didn't decide one day to shrink God. You just built columns — faith over here, work over there, money, marriage, entertainment — and only one of them has His name on it. Then you wondered why God felt distant in the rooms you locked. Pastor Tim Grandstaff closes a month in Psalm 23 with the verse most of us never finish. Along the way: a sheep found in Australia under ninety pounds of wool he could no longer walk under, what "goodness" and "mercy" actually mean in verse 6, and why the Hebrew says they aren't following you — they're chasing you. A faith you keep in one column was never what Psalm 23 was offering. ----------------------- Download our free Psalms journal and discussion guide at genesischurchorlando.com. 🙏 Go Deeper: 📥 Download the Psalms Journal & discussion guide: https://genesischurchorlando.com https://linktr.ee/genesischurchorlando 🎙️ Join us on the Post Sunday Podcast — LIVE Mondays 10:30am on Instagram & X, on-demand Tuesdays on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

    You Built God a Box | Psalm 23:6

  7. Aug 24

    Your Mind is Infested | Psalm 23:5

    A nose fly lands on a sheep. It doesn't bite. It lays eggs in the sheep's nose, and the larvae travel up into its head — and the sheep, driven out of its mind by something it cannot shake loose, runs into dangerous places and beats its own skull against a tree until it kills itself. The shepherd's answer was oil. Poured over the head, before the season ever started. This message sits inside one verse of Psalm 23 and asks what David actually meant by "You anoint my head with oil" — and why that line lands so hard for anyone walking around with a mind that won't quiet down. Fear. Criticism. Comparison. Anxiety. Financial pressure. Unfinished conversations you keep rehearsing. Regret. Something at home nobody knows about yet. Along the way: why the only route to the tabletop runs through the valley, why the Shepherd takes His sheep in circles instead of straight up the mountain, why He arrives at the table months early to pull the weeds and drive out what's living there, and why the most dangerous threat to a flock isn't the wolf outside it — it's two sheep inside it. He never said the enemies would go away. He said He'd prepare a table in front of them, anoint your head, and fill your cup to the brim while they watch. Name it. Declare it. Release it. Scripture: Psalm 23:4–5, Romans 12:2, Philippians 4:6–7, Proverbs 23:7 ----------------------- Download our free Psalms journal and discussion guide at genesischurchorlando.com. 🙏 Go Deeper: 📥 Download the Psalms Journal & discussion guide: https://genesischurchorlando.com https://linktr.ee/genesischurchorlando 🎙️ Join us on the Post Sunday Podcast — LIVE Mondays 10:30am on Instagram & X, on-demand Tuesdays on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

    Your Mind is Infested | Psalm 23:5

  8. Aug 16

    The Dark Is Where God Does His Best Work | Psalm 23:3-4

    "He restores my soul." We know the words. Most of us learned them young enough that we can rattle off the whole psalm forwards and backwards — which is exactly why we miss what's in it. In this message, Pastor PJ Charles sits inside two verses of Psalm 23 and asks the uncomfortable question underneath them: if God is leading me down the right path, why does the right path run through the valley of the shadow of death? Along the way: what restoration actually costs, the difference between being valuable and being valued, why Paul describes us as willing losers in a triumphal procession, what the Hebrew behind "valley of the shadow of death" really says, and why a seed has to be buried in the dark before it can grow toward the light. The takeaway isn't that the darkness will pass. It's that the darkness has a purpose — and if your Shepherd led you into it, He fully intends to walk you out of it. Restore. Refine. Repeat. Scripture: Psalm 23:1–4, Psalm 8:4, 2 Corinthians 2:14–15, Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 12:2 Download our free Psalms journal and discussion guide at genesischurchorlando.com. 🙏 Go Deeper: 📥 Download the Psalms Journal & discussion guide: https://genesischurchorlando.com https://linktr.ee/genesischurchorlando 🎙️ Join us on the Post Sunday Podcast — LIVE Mondays 10:30am on Instagram & X, on-demand Tuesdays on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

    The Dark Is Where God Does His Best Work | Psalm 23:3-4
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Here at Genesis we are not defined the four walls that we meet in, so wherever you are listening from today, we are glad that you could join our podcast! We pray that what you experience today will guide you closer to the ways of Jesus and bring transformation to your life. We want to connect with you and there are many simple ways! 1. Go to our website: www.genesischurchorlando.com and click the NEW HERE card 2. TEXT us! Text “Genesis Connect” to 94090 as one of our team members are waiting to hear follow up with your questions 3. Follow us. Click that subscribe button on YouTube, or follow us on Facebook and Instagram @genesischurchorlando

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  • Creator
    Genesis Church
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    69
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    © Genesis Church 2022
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