Genesis Costa Mesa

This week at Genesis, Chris sits down with a panel of our worship leaders—Stu, Danea, and Tyler—for an authentic conversation on worship. They share their personal backgrounds with worship, powerful stories, and their vision for how it can continue to shape and strengthen the Genesis community. 🗓 Week 4: Worship Panel 🎙 Guests: Stu, Danea, and Tyler 🔔 Follow along—next week, we dive into the theo...

This week at Genesis, we continue our Summer of Simplicity series with a message on worship. Centered on 2 Samuel 6, this sermon reflects on David’s undignified worship, the presence of God at the center, and how true worship is less about performance and more about presence, dependency, and alignment with who God is. From personal stories to honest reflections on worship, this message invites us...

This week in our Summer of Simplicity series, Terry Fouche takes us deeper into the practice of prayer. Exploring the Lord’s Prayer, simple breath prayers, the beauty of memorizing scripture, and building daily habits of prayer, Terry shares practical ways to stay connected to God with intentional prayer throughout normal moments in our day. This message invites us to slow down, train new habits,...

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...

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...

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.