Join us for weekly episodes of hope and encouragement from Generation Church in sunny Pensacola, Fla. where we want to help you to be firm in faith, to fulfill the call of God on your life, and to finish well.
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Bryan
Tune is as we're encouraged not to “mistake God's silence for God's absence.” In this passage, we see how seasons of waiting and obscurity can be God's workshop—developing character, refining gifts, and preparing a person for future responsibility—so that sudden promotion serves God's purposes rather than mere human ambition. Key Takeaways: - Remain faithful in obscurity; God may be shaping character and gifting. - Release past hurts so they don't hinder future fruitfulness (Manasseh). - Be fruitful in your current place of suffering (Ephraim). - Remember: even when people forget you, God does not.
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Loïs
Let's look at Genesis 38-39 with primary attention to Joseph's “crucible”: how private obedience under temptation shapes character and points forward to Christ. Pastor Lois contrasts Judah's moral failure in the Tamar episode with Joseph's faithfulness in Egypt and extracts practical and theological lessons about resisting sin when no one is watching. Key Takeaways: Resist temptation privately; character is formed in solitude. When tempted, remember the stakes, call the sin by name, and see that sin offends God. Endure trials with an eye to the crown of life promised to the steadfast. -Featuring Loïs Renaud
Pastor Roger uses the life of Joseph to argue that God's providence governs even the confusing and painful chapters of our lives. Preaching from Genesis 37 with Genesis 50 as an interpretive lens, we see Joseph's dreams, betrayal, and exile as part of a larger redemptive plan rather than meaningless misfortune. Key Takeaways - Trust God's providence even when the process is painful. - Be faithful in ordinary obedience; God uses small faithfulness for big purposes. - Rejoice with those who receive blessing; avoid envy. - All things work for good for those called according to God's purpose. -Featuring Roger Hirth
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
In this sermon, we're introduced to Joseph as a type of Christ. Joseph is loved and sent by his father, rejected and sold by his brothers, falsely accused and imprisoned, then exalted and used to save those who once rejected him. This pattern mirrors the sending and saving mission of the Son, who was sent by the Father to redeem the world, and it echoes Christ's humility and exaltation as described in Philippians. The point is emphatic: Joseph is not Jesus, but he is a divinely placed sign pointing forward to Christ. -Featuring Bryan Ost
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Genesis 35 opens not with God's rejection, but with His gracious call. In this message, we follow Jacob's journey back to God and discover that God's grace not only calls His people to return, but also reminds them who they are, sustains them through life's deepest sorrows, and warns them against the rival paths that promise quicker progress apart from Him. Key Takeaways: -God graciously calls His people to return—no matter how far compromise has taken them. -Our identity in Christ shapes our purpose and practice, producing lives that reflect His greatness. -God's promises are always worth the wait, even when rival paths seem to offer faster progress. -Featuring Ray Grubbs
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Loïs
Tune is as Pastor Loïs unpacks the tragedy of Genesis 34. We see that private sin and failed leadership have communal consequences, and that Christ alone rightly addresses such ruin. This sermon is organized around three character-types to show how lust, apathy, and vengeance combine to devastate families and nations, then points forward to Jesus and calls the congregation to repentance and active faith. Key Takeaways: - Flee sexual sin; it binds and harms beyond the individual. - Do not lightly compromise or intermarry with systems that will pull you from God's way. - Repent of passivity, take righteous responsibility, and find restoration in Christ. -Featuring Loïs Renaud
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Bryan
Jacob's long flight ends when God stops the runner and begins a slow, costly transformation from fear-driven schemer to dependent worshiper. Pastor Bryan traces Genesis 32–33 to show how God interrupts Jacob's patterns, confronts his self-reliance, and leads him into a new identity, a new way of walking, and restored relationships with God and others. Key Takeaways: - Stop running; surrender rather than scheme. - Make honest prayer and repentance your first response. - Accept God's reshaping—even the “limp”—as daily dependence. -Featuring Bryan Ost
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Pastor Greg looks at Genesis 31 and the theme that God brings blessing out of brokenness while calling us to trust and obey rather than manipulate. The sermon traces Jacob's decision to leave Laban, the divine confirmation he receives, the family's secretive flight (including Rachel's theft of the household idols), Laban's pursuit, and the eventual confrontation and covenant between the families. Key Takeaways: - Obey God's call to return and trust his presence. - Engage Scripture as guidance and weapon—believe, receive, release. - Resist fear; let faith, not manipulation, shape your choices. -Featuring Greg Sexton
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Pastor Loïs examines Genesis 30, focusing on the family drama to show how God meets people in the mess of their lives. Through the births of Jacob's sons, we see the deeper “wrestlings” of Leah, Rachel, and Jacob—each wrestling with idols of validation, identity, and control—and traces how God's faithful, impartial sovereignty governs even the tangled consequences of deception and desire. Key Takeaways: - God notices and acts for the rejected (Leah's womb was opened). - God remembers and grants grace to the afflicted (Rachel and the birth of Joseph). - God calls us back to himself as the God of Bethel—surrender and trust rather than striving. -Featuring Loïs Renaud
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Roger
This week, Pastor Roger unpacks Genesis 28-29 by talking about the amazing grace of God. As Jacob is sent to his uncle Laban's to find a wife, we find from this account 7 characteristics of grace. To summarize, grace pursues, reveals, guides. Corrects, and restores. -Featuring Roger Hirth
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Pastor Bryan looks at Genesis 27 as a chaotic chessboard where family dysfunction—Isaac's appetite, Rebekah's fear, Jacob's deception and Esau's bitterness—appears to rule the day, yet God's sovereign purpose prevails. The chapter's drama is framed around the tagline “God never reacts. He reigns,” where we see the sensory-driven choices of humans are moves that God ultimately weaves into his covenantal plan. -Featuring Bryan Ost
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Loïs
Pastor Loïs develops the meaning of the altar—our intentional place of surrender and worship. The altar is the locus of true blessing and the access point to Christ's living water. Using Isaac's response to God in Genesis 26 as the primary Old Testament case study, we then see the New Testament fulfillment and invitation to return to a cultivated life of worship and dependence on Christ. -Featuring Loïs Renaud
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Roger
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
We're half way through Genesis! This week, Pastor Roger looks at chapter 25. Don't trade what matters—eternal covenant, calling, and legacy—for the immediate pleasures of appetite or convenience. Using Abraham's final decisions, God's faithful movement across generations, and the Esau–Jacob episode, the sermon argues that small, habitual choices form destiny and that finishing well requires clarity, trust, and intentional handing off of spiritual momentum. -Featuring Roger Hirth
Happy Mother's Day! Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Tune in as Pastor Bryan unpacks the longest chapter in Genesis. Chapter 24 is presented as a layered story: a historical account of how Isaac met Rebekah, a covenantal bridge for Abraham's promise, and a typological foreshadowing of the gospel. The sermon unpacks the chapter through four characters—Abraham, the servant, Rebekah, and Isaac—drawing practical lessons for discerning God's will and living by faith. -Featuring Bryan Ost
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Roger
This week Pastor Roger looks at the second half of Genesis 22 and all of Genesis 23. He looks at how Abraham experiences the grief of Sarah's death-- intentionally, deeply-- and then appropriately moving on. We see in these chapters what it looks like to have hope in the midst of life's challenges, looking to our hope of a future with God. -Featuring Roger Hirth
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Ray and Fam
Tune in as Pastor Ray unpacks Genesis 21:9-22:14 where he unpacks two scenes-- Hagar and Ismael in the wilderness of desperation and Abraham and Isaac on the mountain of testing. Where human provision runs out and where things don't make sense, God provides. Ultimately, God provides Himself. In Christ, we have all we need! -Featuring Ray Grubbs
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Pastor Loïs unpacks Genesis 20 to contrast the tension found between Abraham and Abimelech to show how we often rationalize sin. In our mess-ups, God intervenes and extends mercy. We then hear of the birth of the promised son, Isaac in Genesis 21:1-8. It's finally happened; God was faithful to His promise! -Featuring Loïs Renaud
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Bryan
Let's listen as Pastor Bryan unpacks Genesis 19. This may indeed look like a bleak story but it is full of God's mercy. Here we unpack four dramatic scenes that show the importance of keeping our eyes on Jesus through the windshield of life instead of trying to "walk into resurrection life while staring into yesterday's mirror." -Featuring Bryan
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
What a wonderful Easter Sunday! Tune is as Pastor Roger unpacks the crucifixion and resurrection from the perspective of the disciples that encounter Jesus on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. Let's consider these things as we seek to be those whose hearts burn for Jesus. -Featuring Roger Hirth
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Roger
Pastor Roger unpacks chapter 18 looking at Abraham as a friend of God. What does it take to have such a relationship with our Lord and Savior? Abraham embraced the unexpected, displayed humility, and served. Thankfully, Jesus calls us friends (John 15:15) by grace and through faith. -Featuring Roger Hirth
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Tune in as we unpack Genesis 16 by looking at God's promise, man's failure, and God's grace and mercy despite our failures. God is faithful to His promises; they are INVINCIBLE! -Featuring Michael Lepinay
Join us each week for a brief encouraging word from Pastor Roger Hirth or one of our associate pastors.
Welcome to the “Wrap Party” where we dive a little deeper into Sunday's message. Tune in as we discuss the sermon. -Featuring Pastor Loïs
As Pastor Loïs continues our series, we get into a key passage of Genesis, the covenant God makes with Abraham. Tune in as Pastor Loïs unpacks what impact this has for us today. We see in Abraham a model of trust in the promises of God. Here, a promise God makes to uphold both sides of the covenant. The LORD swears by Himself, there is not higher authority! We can trust His faithfulness! -Featuring Loïs Renaud
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