GT Church Podcast

Andrew is joined by Pastors Scott, Maritza, and Rodney, for a midweek discussion on Sunday's message about family, highlighting baptisms, the importance of fighting for marriages and children, and trusting God to rebuild broken areas in family life. They share how Christian families need to be intentional—staying united in the Spirit, standing on biblical truth, and refusing to let culture or the enemy define what God has already designed.

Brandon shares a message on the importance of family.

Maritza shares a message on the importance of being "all in" for families, discussing God's purpose for the family, healing from wounds, and becoming part of God's family.

In this message, Pastor Rodney talks about how much family matters to God and why we need to fight for our families with prayer, forgiveness, humility, and love instead of pride or conflict. He also reminds us that even if our family story has been painful, God can heal our wounds, break unhealthy cycles, and welcome us fully into His family.

This midweek conversation between Andrew, Kim, and Pastor Scott unpacks Sunday's message on serving, emphasizing that serving isn't about earning God's love but responding to Jesus' love with gratitude, humility, and a willing heart. They encourage us to move from simply attending or consuming to getting connected and using our gifts to serve others in the church and beyond.

Pastor Scott shares how being “all in” with Jesus means following His example by choosing humility, serving others, and using the gifts God has given us. We don't serve to earn salvation or impress God—we serve because we've already been loved, saved, and invited to be part of His work.

Andrew's conversation with Tonie, Pastor Maritza, and Pastor Eric, recaps GT's GroupLink Sunday across all locations and highlights why life groups matter so much: they help a big church feel smaller and give people real community beyond Sunday mornings. They connect this to the “All In” message and explain that believers need people beside them—like Aaron and Hur supporting Moses—to stay focused on Jesus, grow deeper roots, and walk through life together.

Pastor Maritza encouraged the church to be “all in” for community, reminding us that God designed believers to grow together through fellowship, prayer, discipleship, and doing life with one another. Using the image of a plant that can't grow because it needs to be re-potted, she challenged people to stop staying spiritually stuck and make room for deeper roots by joining community and investing in others.

Pastor Eric's message encourages everyone to get connected in a group, because who we have surrounding us in life matters when we need encouragement and accountability. Sundays are important, but being all-in for Jesus means we need real community throughout the week with people who help us keep our eyes on God and support us when life gets hard.

Sundays are important, but following Jesus all-in means we need real community throughout the week with people who share our faith and support us when life gets hard. Tonie's message encourages believers to intentionally join a group, because who we have “to our left and right” matters when we need encouragement and care.

Andrew is joined by Pastors Scott, Eric, and Maritza for the first midweek podcast for GT's “All In” series, focusing on the first step of fully following Jesus: truly knowing God through a personal relationship with Him, not just knowing facts about Him. They also discuss practical ways to stay connected to God daily—like prayer, Scripture, worship music, community, and regular reminders that help re-center your life around Jesus.

Pastor Maritza encourages us to be "all in" by knowing Jesus, doing His will, and living a life that glorifies God.

Pastor Eric challenges people to be “all in” with Jesus by truly knowing God, surrendering what they've been holding back, and trusting Him with every part of life.

Pastor Scott kicks off this new sermon series with a message that encourages us to go “all in” by truly knowing Jesus, trusting Him for salvation, and living a life that glorifies God.

In this midweek episode Andrew is joined by Pastors Scott, Dan, and Rodney to wrap up the Ephesians series by talking about how to stand strong in Christ when life gets hard and the spiritual battle feels real. Their conversation points us back to prayer, Scripture, and the truth of the gospel as the way we recognize the enemy's lies and live in the freedom Jesus has already won.

Pastor Scott wraps up the Ephesians series, sharing how we face a real spiritual enemy, but God has fully equipped us with the armor of God to stand firm against the devil's schemes. Through truth, righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation, God's Word, and prayer, we can live strong in our identity in Christ and walk in spiritual victory.

Pastor Scott, Pastor Maritza, and Andrew have a conversation that takes a closer look at Ephesians 6:1–9, discussing how Christian parenting is about raising children to love and follow Jesus, not just training them to obey. They highlight modeling faith at home, using discipline with wisdom and grace, and relying on prayer, Scripture, and Christian community.

Pastor Maritza shares a message on Paul's instructions in Ephesians 6 calling children to obey and honor their parents, while calling fathers and parents to lovingly train, instruct, and disciple their children in the Lord rather than provoking or neglecting them. She also shares that God can heal broken family relationships, redeem parenting failures, and bring reconciliation when believers respond with humility, forgiveness, prayer, and renewed commitment to live differently from the world.

Pastor Eric's message teaches from Ephesians 6 that children are called to obey and honor their parents, while fathers and parents are called to lead with grace, godly wisdom, protection, and consistent instruction in the Lord rather than harshness or provocation. It also applies Paul's teaching on servants and masters to all areas of authority, urging believers to serve and lead wholeheartedly as unto Christ, rebuild family relationships, and return fully to Jesus.

Pastor Scott's message on Ephesians 6:1-9 explores how God has created order and structure in the home and in every sphere of life, calling children to honor and obey their parents, parents to disciple and discipline with grace and truth, and all people to serve and lead under His authority. He also points to the Father's love shown through Jesus, inviting everyone to receive forgiveness, salvation, and life as a child of God.

Missionary Jessie Harshbarger shares how God called her to missions as a child and describes how King's Castle in Honduras is raising up young people to evangelize, disciple children, and bring hope to communities. She challenges the church to ask God to “break my heart for what breaks yours,” reminding them that missions is for every believer—whether by going, giving, praying, or reaching the people God places in front of them.

In this week's episode, Andrew is joined by Pastors Scott and Maritza, along with Jessie Harshbarger, a missionary with King's Castle in Honduras, who shares how God is using young people to reach their generation for Jesus and challenges listeners to ask God to break their hearts for the lost. They discuss how missions is not just for missionaries overseas but for every believer, calling Christians to obey God, serve where they are, and take action through prayer, giving, going, and sharing Jesus with others.

Pastors Scott, Maritza, and Eric join Andrew for this midweek discussion of Sunday's message on Ephesians 5, emphasizing that biblical marriage is built on mutual submission, respect, sacrificial love, and covenant oneness under Christ's lordship—not control, manipulation, or cultural stereotypes. The pastors emphasize that healthy marriage requires intentionality, gratitude, forgiveness, honoring one another as children of God, and relying on the Holy Spirit to live selflessly.

Pastor Maritza preached from Ephesians 5:21–33, emphasizing that Christian marriage is meant to reflect Christ and the Church through mutual submission, sacrificial love, service, and reverence for Jesus. She urged husbands and wives—and all believers—to reject cultural distortions of marriage, surrender to Christ's lordship, die to selfishness, and let their relationships display God's grace, protection, forgiveness, and love.

The sermon teaches from Ephesians 5 that marriage is God's covenant design, built on mutual submission, sacrificial love, respect, humility, forgiveness, and keeping Christ at the center. Pastor Eric challenges husbands, wives, and singles to reject selfishness, pursue restoration, communicate, compromise, and prepare to love and serve one another according to God's Word.

Pastor Scott taught from Ephesians 5:21–33, emphasizing that God's design for marriage begins with mutual submission “out of reverence for Christ,” not selfishness, control, or weaponizing Scripture. He encouraged wives to respect and voluntarily cooperate with their husbands' leadership, husbands to love their wives sacrificially as Christ loved the church, and singles to prepare for marriage by learning God's design now.

Evangelist Greg Hubbard shares a message based on Psalm 126 about the importance of missions and all people hearing the gospel message.

Andrew talks with Pastors Eric and Rodney about powerful stories from their recent Baptism Sunday across all campuses, highlighting life change testimonies and the significance of water baptism as a public declaration of faith. They then unpack Ephesians 5:15–20, focusing on walking in wisdom, using time well, avoiding anything that masters us (like alcohol, fear, or pride), cultivating thankfulness, and relying on Scripture, the Holy Spirit, and Christian community to live out a Spirit‑filled life.

Pastor Maritza shares from Ephesians 5 during this series, encouraging believers to encourage one another, be discipled, grow in their faith, and make Jesus known. Christ calls us to be his witnesses.

Pastor Eric preached from Ephesians 5:15–20, urging believers to “be very careful how you live” by walking in wisdom, redeeming the limited time God gives, and seeking true wisdom from Scripture—especially Proverbs—rather than from culture or social media. He challenged the church to avoid foolishness (including drunkenness), be continually filled with the Holy Spirit, live as useful “tools” in God's hands for others' good, and cultivate a habit of daily gratitude and praise to God in every season.

Pastor Scott teaches from Ephesians 5 that believers must live wisely and carefully—redeeming the time, rejecting foolishness and drunkenness, and actively seeking God's will through Scripture, holiness, and Spirit-filled living. He urges constant gratitude, intentional witness to “one more” person, and invites those far from God to repent and place their faith in Jesus for forgiveness and new life.

Pastors Scott, Eric, and Maritza join Andrew to explore some key themes from Ephesians—anger, forgiveness, sexual purity, and greed—discussing that believers must uncover the heart roots of these sins, refuse even small compromises, take practical and sometimes drastic steps to flee them, practice generous giving and open accountability, and forgive others as fully as Christ has forgiven us in order to walk in true freedom.

Pastor Maritza exhorts believers, from Ephesians 5:3–14, to live as holy children of light by rejecting even the slightest hint of sexual immorality, impurity, greed, and corrupt speech, allowing the Holy Spirit to eradicate sin so they do not forfeit their inheritance in Christ.

Pastor Eric's sermon calls Christians to live as “children of light” by rejecting all sexual immorality and greed, starving sinful appetites instead of feeding them, and lovingly helping others out of darkness so they can fully follow Jesus.

Drawing from Ephesians 5:3–14, Pastor Scott's sermon calls believers to reject all sexual immorality and greed, submit to Scripture as the unchanging standard, and walk as children of light in the freedom and purity Christ provides while lovingly inviting others out of darkness.

Pastor Scott teaches that we, as believers, are called to honor God by using pure, edifying speech, avoiding behaviors that grieve the Holy Spirit, and speaking in ways that build others up and reflect our identity in Christ. Flowing from the gospel, we must also walk in continual forgiveness, cancelling others' debts just as God has fully forgiven and freed us through Jesus' sacrificial death.

Pastor Maritza unpacks Ephesians 4:17–28, stressing that Paul's letter calls believers to leave behind the futile, sinful patterns of the world and live out a truly “new life” in Christ, not just a patched‑up version of their old one. The preacher urges listeners to let God soften hardened hearts, take every thought captive, walk in integrity and honest work, and embrace visible transformation so their lives reflect Jesus to the world.

This Father's Day sermon uses a golf-ball illustration to teach that Christians are “set apart” and called to leave worldly ways behind, be renewed in their minds, and live out a new identity in Christ marked by integrity, self-control (especially over anger), and honest work. The pastor especially challenges parents—fathers in particular—to model Christlike living at home, guard their children from worldly ideologies, and rely on the Holy Spirit's power to break patterns like unresolved anger.

This episode honors fathers and challenges men to reject worldly patterns—like deceit, laziness, lust, and uncontrolled anger—and instead “put on” the new life in Christ marked by integrity, service, holiness, and responsible work. Pastor Rodney concludes his message by inviting people to surrender their old lives to Jesus, be transformed by the Spirit, and live as godly examples for their families and the world.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Pastor Scott and Kim to unpack Ephesians 4, showing that every believer is meant to keep growing spiritually—moving from “baby Christian” to maturity through daily time with God, Bible engagement, and learning to think biblically about life's challenges. They also discuss the role of community and serving in the church, where gifted leaders equip believers so they won't be deceived by false ideas but instead speak the truth in love and build one another up.

Pastor Scott teaches from Ephesians 4 that God gives grace and spiritual gifts to every believer and raises up leaders (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers) to equip the church so all can grow from spiritual infancy into mature Christlikeness.

Pastors Scott, Eric, and Maritza join Andrew for a closer look at Ephesians 4:1–6, sharing that all Christians—not just ministers—are called to live lives worthy of Jesus' name by choosing humility, gentleness, and patience, especially in difficult relationships. They discuss how these traits grow through abiding in Christ and self-reflection and are essential for true unity in the church that visibly reflects Christ to the world.

Pastor Maritza's message calls believers to live in a way that truly reflects Jesus—marked by humility, gentleness, patience, and unified love—so that Christ's sacrifice is honored and the watching world can see that He is real.

Pastor Eric's message encourages believers to move from merely learning to actively living out their faith by representing Jesus well—through humility, gentleness, patience, love, gratitude, and unity—so that their everyday lives reflect the cost of His sacrifice and represent Jesus to the world.

Pastor Scott's message based on the beginning of Ephesians 4 shares how our lives in Christ should be a reflection of Him, including traits of humility, gentleness, patience, and unity of the Spirit.

Pastor Scott Nagle joins Andrew for this week's episode, recapping GT Student Ministries' Road Trip—where over 300 teens gathered to seek God, many chose to be baptized, and those baptisms and 60+ grads were celebrated on Student Takeover Sunday. They then take another look at the message from Ephesians 3:20–21, which highlighted that God can do more than we imagine, that His power is already at work in believers, and that the church is strongest when every generation works together and older leaders intentionally raise up younger ones.

Pastor Scott Nagle shares a message on Student Takeover Day based on Ephesians 3:20-21 about God's power and what He can do in our lives.

In this midweek episode Pastors Scott and Eric join Andrew to discuss Pentecost, sharing the ongoing importance of the Holy Spirit as the believer's “advantage” for conviction, guidance, power, and boldness, including the Pentecostal belief in a subsequent baptism in the Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues. It also addresses Christian identity—warning against worldly labels, urging parents to actively disciple their children, and stressing that true identity and security come from Scripture and being rooted in God's love.

Pastor Maritza shares how Pentecost is the day God sent the Holy Spirit to live in and empower believers, beginning the church, and also that the Spirit's gifts and power are still for today. Using Ephesians 3, she encourages us to root our identity in God's love, be continually filled with the Spirit's power, and move from an “empty” or half-full spiritual life to the full, surrendered life Christ offers.

Pastor Eric explains in his message that Pentecost means believers now have a unique “advantage” through the Holy Spirit—God's personal presence, love, and power living in them to strengthen, guide, and send them to make disciples. He encourages us to root our identity in being God's children (not in past labels), stay grounded in Scripture and God's love, and respond by coming to Christ or seeking a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Scott explains Pentecost as the historic Jewish feast celebrating the giving of the law and, for Christians, the day God poured out the Holy Spirit to personally indwell and empower believers, marking the birth of the church. Preaching from Ephesians 3, he teaches that our identity is received from the Father, our lives must be rooted in God's unconditional love, and our strength comes from the Spirit within.