Genesis Collective

This week at Genesis, we kick off our new series: Summer of Simplicity—a four-week journey through prayer, scripture, worship, and prophecy. In this first episode, Deana and Chris sit down for an honest, interview-style conversation on the heart and practice of prayer.   Week 1: Prayer Subscribe to follow the full Summer of Simplicity series Topics coming up: Scripture, Worship, Prophecy

This week Chris dives into the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. 

This week at Genesis, Kai unpacks the reality of spiritual warfare through the lens of Daniel 10, reminding us that every decision to follow God is a decision to engage in battle. Kai reminds us through Genesis that we are created to bridge the gap between heaven and earth—not to live in evil, but to reflect God's reign in a world of opposition.

This week at Genesis, we explore what it means to live faithfully in exile. Like Daniel in Babylon, we face the pull of compromise and assimilation—yet we're called to stand firm in God's calling on our lives.

This week at Genesis, Chris dives deeper into the life of Daniel as a prophetic model for today. This message challenges us to grow in our character with God, embrace the cost of obedience, and tune our hearts to God's voice as we step into the future He's preparing.

This sermon explores what it means to be a prophetic people—those who listen to God, speak truth, and live out an alternative future shaped by faith and obedience in Christ.

Chris celebrates mothers by connecting into hope in Christ and motherhood.

In this standalone Sunday Conversation, Chris takes some time to talk about the Genesis Collective—what we call an apostolic household. At its core, it's a group of churches that: 1) puts Jesus first, and 2) is deeply connected through relationships."

We welcome Chris back from his travels with the Collective. He dives into powerful stories explaining why we as Genesis exist, as well as, challenging us to a choose a life of courage or comfort.

Closing out the book of Titus Terry overviews the end of Titus while fully unpacking the role of an Edler in the church.

In this Sunday conversation DJ leads us through the book of Titus and focuses on Leadership in the church.

In this Sunday conversation Jordan leads us through Titus chapter 3:3-7 and focuses on the ideas of Rebirth and Renewal. 

In this Sunday conversation Haylee Cockrum, in her FIRST full teach at Genesis, leads us through Titus 3:1-8.

In this Sunday conversation, we were able to have Hannah read the entirty of Titus with Kai walking us through Titus 2:11-15.

To start us off in our next Sunday Conversation Series we will be continuing our serise Letters from a Father but now using that lens through the Book of Titus. In this first message Tyler overview the book of Titus while contrasting the difference between Yahweh and the gods of Crete.

In our last day of our Grace of Giving series, our day of Celebrate Generosity, Chris leads us in an overview of what we have talked about this past month. At the end of this gathering, we were able to annouced that our community has given over $100,000 for our 1st ever Celebrate Generosity. We are so astonished and beyond proud of our community. A group of mostly college students and early 20-30 year olds rallying together to bless others. Every dollar of that money will be sent out from us to non-profits and church plants around the World. Below is a list of where the money will be going specifically going for Celebrate Generosity. LOCAL: Love Costa Mesa NorthEast of the Well (Costa Mesa) Wilson St. Learning Center (Costa Mesa) Jesse's House (Orange) GLOBAL: Voices of Hope Zoe International Rainbow Orphanage (Sri Lanka) Hansen Family (Middle East) CHURCH PLANT Vivified Church (Kenneth & Chisom in Nigeria)

In this Sunday conversaion Chris speaks more into the idea of Generosity and brings the people / orginzations to the community that we will be giving to next sunday on Cellebrate generosity.    To safeguard the confidentiality of individuals in vulnerable regions, we have omitted this section of the message. Below is a list with general locations of the people we will partner with.   LOCAL: -Love Costa Mesa -NorthEast of the Well (Costa Mesa) -Wilson St. Learning Center (Costa Mesa) -Jesse's House (Orange)   GLOBAL: -Voices of Hope  -Zoe International -Rainbow Orphanage (Sri Lanka) -Hansen Family (Middle East)   CHURCH PLANT -Vivified Church (Kenneth & Chisom in Nigeria)

In this Sunday Conversation we have the privilege of Matt & Kristen Larson speaking into the idea of generosity and why we value generosity as followers of Jesus.   The concept of Celebrate Generosity, which we will practice on March 2nd this year, has been a practice Anthem Church in Thousand Oaks has been doing for the last 15+ years.

For the month of February we will be talking about what it means to be a community that practices Generosity.  On the first Sunday of March we will have what we are calling Celebrate Generosity, where every donation given will go out of our community.  In this Sunday conversation Chris gives us an overview of 2nd Cor 9:5-15

In this finally conversation around 1st Timothy, Kai leads us through chapter 6:11-12.

In this Sunday Conversation Tyler leads us through a honest and possibly diffcult message from 1st Tim 6, on a topic we might not always talk about: MONEY.

In this Sunday conversation Chris leads us through the passage in 1st Timothy around Eldership and Leadership in the church.

Happy New Year everyone!!! Welcome to 2025! This was our first sunday back from Christmas break. In this sunday conversation Christ leads us through a few key highlights of God working in our community this last year while also looking forward to areas of growth in 2025.

In this conversation Chris intros the text, giving an overview of what Paul is writing. Meryl then narrows in and we keep the majority on this conversation around one key idea: Gossip. 

In this conversation, as we get close to the end of our Letters from a Father series, Stu leads us through 1st Tim 4:6-16 and we focus on the idea of training.

In this conversation we had the privillage of our deer friend Matt Larson from Anthem Thousand Oaks preaching from 1st Timothy 3:14 - 4:5. 

In this conversation Chris gives us an overview of chapter 3 and showcases how Paul is telling Timothy that we need a NEW type of leader; someone who is different from the rest of the world. 

In this conversation, Daena unpacks the section in 1st Timothy 2:9-15 where Paul gives instruction to Women in the church of ephesus. This is a very loaded passage with many things that make us feel uncomfortable in our culture. After diving into the historical context, culture, and original language we find Paul is speaking to something very different than what we may have first assumed.

In this Sunday conversation we go through 1st Timothy 2:1-8 where Chris talks about the second calling.

In this Sunday conversation Chris leads us through 1st Timothy 1:12-17 and how Jesus invites us into freedom. From our past to our future.

In this conversation Chris leads through 1st Timothy 1:3-11 and talks about challenges that Paul tells Timothy to watch out for: 1) False Doctrines 2) Breaking the Law.

This past Sunday we started our new Sunday Conversation series: "Letters from a Father" where we will be journing through the book of 1st Timothy. In this first conversation Chris walks us through an overview of the book and how, at the core of this letter, Paul urges Timothy that its all about Jesus.

In this Sunday conversation we are in John 6:24 - 70 with Daena talking through the current state of human desire in the USA and how culture is forming us to treat Jesus as a thing to be consumed.

In our last episode of the Contend Series, Kai walks us through Who God is, What is His name, and Why God cares for the lost. Kai also touches on the community weekend fast we had where we prayed for breakthrough our Nation, our community, and ourselves.

In this Sunday conversation Tyler invites us to the value of scripture and contending for their importance in our lives.

In this installment of our Contend series, Meryl discusses the significance of mental health and the impact of the words we use about ourselves.

Within our Contend Conversation (what does it mean as followers of Jesus to fight for our faith) Chris highlights the practice of fasting. This serves a dual function, to better understand fasting, for a Genesis whole community water fast Oct 4th - 6th.

In this conversation, continuing off of last week's topic of how the enemy lies to us, Chris leads us through the idea of how the enemy uses shame to discredit us.

After a beautiful month of focusing on worship for our Sundays in August we are coming back to the text to focus on the word in Jude 1:3... CONTEND. In this Sunday conversation Chris starts off the series with the context that we are a people at war.

As we finish our Origins series, Chris lands the series with two main ideas: 1) Beauty 2) Radiancy.

As we get close to the end of our Origins series Tyler walks us through the story of Acts 1 - 11 so far, and the beginning global impact of the the early church.   PS: We did unfortantly have a technical error with our camera this weekend so there will be no video for this conversation.

In this conversation Kai unpacks the first half of Acts Chapter 11 and focuses on why Luke seems to repeat the story of Peter's vision from the last few chapters. 

Jordan takes us through Acts 10 – following the stories of Peter and Cornelius – and leads us in a conversation around diversity in the Kingdom of God.

We take a interesting turn in Acts 9, where we have been following the story of Saul, to an abrupt switch to a section of stories involving Peter. In this conversation Chris walks us through these stories.

Picking up from last week where Hannah left off, Chris continues through the early moments of Paul's story.

Moving onto Chapter 9 in our Origins Series, through the book of Acts, Hannah leads us through Saul's journey on the road to Damascus.

In this conversation Chris leads us through the majority of Acts Chapter 8; telling the story of the Apostle Philip. 

Finishing out the story of Stephen from Actcs Chapter 7, Tyler leads through the text and the idea that in this life, even for followers of Jesus, we can not escape suffering.

Continuing in the message that Stephen gives the religious rulers in Acts Chapter 7, Sam brings us through the story of Moses, highlighting his early life, and unpacking the idea of going out before we are ready.

In this conversation we finish out the story of Stephen in Acts 7.

With Chris and Meryl away in Australia visiting family, Terry Fouche from Unseen Hope, came and shared with us. If you don't know, Terry and his wife Linda have been outside Elders to Genesis since the early beginnings of our community. In this conversation, through our Origins series in Acts, Terry leads us through the section in Acts where Stephen is arrested; possing us the question: What do we do when we are under pressure?