Paul is mistaken for a god, then stoned, and then he gets up and goes back into the city. What drove Paul to go back? In week two of Witness on Daybreak Audio Vox, Pastor Geoff looks at Acts 14 and asks how much of our lives is led by conviction and how much by emotion. Along the way, staff member Tory Johnson shares how spiritual conversations became part of his everyday rhythm, Matt Lockett tells the story of a friend who shared Jesus with him in an Indiana cornfield, and Pastor Geoff invites us to say yes to an intentional spiritual conversation before November 29.

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Daybreak | November 1, 2026
Witness | Week 2
Conviction vs Emotion | Geoff Eckart

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0:00 Welcome and prayer
2:01 Compassion when you don't have to
5:14 Christmas Village, the ballot box, and Never the Same
9:17 From Saul to Paul - Acts 14
13:19 Everybody wants to be known
16:49 From gods to stoned
20:02 Tory Johnson on sharing your faith
26:06 Push through the opposition
27:36 Conviction vs Emotion
29:59 Matt Lockett's story
32:55 The moment that changed me
35:10 A heart of compassion
37:35 Will you say yes?

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Scripture Referenced:
Acts 14
Matthew 28.19-20
John 3.16
Matthew 9

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What kind of person drives toward the storm everyone else is driving away from? In week one of Witness, Pastor Geoff starts with storm chasers and asks what it would look like to be the one who goes in for someone else. Then he walks through Saul's encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus in Acts 9 - a man who knew the Scriptures inside and out, yet had to ask "Who are you, Lord?" - and shows the difference between knowing about God and knowing him.

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Daybreak | October 25, 2026
Witness | Week 1
Knowing vs Experiencing | Geoff Eckart
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0:00 Storm chasers
5:24 Meet Saul
7:18 Acts 9 - the Damascus road
8:41 Knowing about God vs. knowing God
10:48 Who are you, Lord?
14:21 Where does your truth come from?
17:38 What do I do?
20:03 Ananias - go find Saul
25:33 Marcie's story
32:11 Compassion and the harvest
35:22 Sent on mission

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Scripture Referenced:
Acts 9
Acts 22
Matthew 9

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Some things have to be buried before you can move forward. In week six of Obsession, Pastor Rachel follows Jacob back to Bethel in Genesis 35, where God calls him to bury his idols under an oak tree and keep the promise he made there. From phones and calendars to money, achievement, and control, we look at the everyday things that quietly take God's place, why we hold onto them, and what it looks like to grieve with hope, pour ourselves out in worship, and end a generational cycle.

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Daybreak | October 18, 2026
Obsession | Week 6
Posterity & Prosperity | Rachel Reigard

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0:00 The Angel Oak and oaks in Scripture
3:18 Where we left Jacob - Genesis 35
6:29 Everyday idols
11:41 Numbing out
13:46 Why we cling to idols
15:46 Burying the idols under the oak
17:39 The terror of God - and Genesis 34
21:10 A generational struggle
23:56 The oak of weeping - grieving with anticipation
26:17 Israel again - pouring out in worship
28:49 Pouring it out - a staff story
34:20 Ending the cycle

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Scripture Referenced:
Genesis 3.5
Genesis 18
Genesis 34
Genesis 35.1-9
Isaiah 61.3
2 Corinthians 10.5
Galatians 5.24
1 Thessalonians 4.3

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Alone at the Jabbok, with his past waiting on the other side, Jacob wrestles with God and walks away with a limp and a new name. In week five of Obsession, Pastor Geoff looks at the most pivotal night in Jacob's life and what happens when we stop trying to manage our own outcomes and trust God with who we are and where our story is going.

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Daybreak | October 11, 2026
Obsession | Week 5
Persona and Providence | Geoff Eckart
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0:00 Trying every sport
2:35 When sports become an obsession
8:32 A moment of prayer
11:21 Jacob's story so far
14:51 God leads Jacob back
16:58 Vulnerable places
22:01 April 17, 2020
23:55 Wrestling with God
27:26 Bless me through the struggle
30:00 Jacob becomes Israel
31:38 Breadcrumbs
37:41 Deceiver to overcomer
40:16 A prayer of surrender

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Scripture Referenced:
Genesis 32
Genesis 31
Psalm 121
2 Corinthians

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Gas prices are up, everything costs more, and people are chasing any shortcut to get ahead - from online gambling to betting on anything. In week four of Obsession, Pastor Geoff continues through the life of Jacob and looks at his growing wealth in Genesis 30 and 31 to show the difference between trusting what we can gain for ourselves and trusting God to provide.

Obsession is a six-week series through the life of Jacob in Genesis - a story about what we chase, why we chase it, and what it costs us when we won't let it go.

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Daybreak | October 4, 2026
Obsession | Week 4
Possession Obsession | Geoff Eckart

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0:00 Obsession and the race to get ahead
1:41 A short history of gambling in America
4:50 Polymarket - betting on anything
8:41 Jacob - a quick review
9:28 Genesis 31 - Jacob and Laban's deal
13:05 When life isn't fair
17:08 The strange story of the branches
19:54 The dream behind it
21:53 Macon, Georgia - the unconventional
26:45 Jacob's heart is changing
28:38 Where is God leading you?
29:55 Closing prayer

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Scripture Referenced:
Genesis 30
Genesis 31
Psalm 34
Proverbs 3.5-6

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Would you notice if a screen started replacing your real relationships? Pastor Geoff opens week three of Obsession with a live conversation with AI, then turns it into a bigger question - what happens when the things we chase (power, acceptance, significance, sex) start making our decisions for us? He walks through one of the messiest family stories in the Bible - Jacob, Laban, Leah, and Rachel in Genesis 29 and 30 - and lands on a choice every one of us has to make: the pain of obsession, or the pain of discipline that actually goes somewhere good.

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Daybreak | September 27, 2026
Obsession | Week 3
Playing for Keeps | Geoff Eckart

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0:00 A conversation with AI
5:06 Obsession, week 3 — Jacob the trickster
7:44 Jacob meets Rachel — Genesis 29
9:31 Tricked into marrying Leah
10:50 Laban's obsession — power
14:56 Leah's sons — an obsession with acceptance
18:58 Stockholm Syndrome and finding acceptance in God
21:49 Rachel's obsession — significance
24:37 Duke Reginald III — an obsession with appetite
26:52 Jacob's obsession — sex
28:48 What the research says about faith and marriage
31:41 The pain of obsession vs. the pain of discipline
33:15 What's your obsession?

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Scripture Referenced:
Genesis 29
Genesis 30
Proverbs 14
Hebrews 12

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We chase a lot of things - trends, collections, money, whatever promises to satisfy next. In week two of Obsession, Pastor Geoff picks up Jacob's story in Genesis 28: a man running for his life with a stone for a pillow, and a God who makes promises he hasn't earned. Along the way, Pastor Geoff asks what happens when we try to make a deal with a God who already has everything, and what it looks like to build a house in the middle of hardship.

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Daybreak | September 20, 2026
Obsession | Week 2
Promises, Promises | Geoff Eckart

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0:00 A culture of obsession
4:20 A prayer army and The Chosen
7:00 Jacob's story - Genesis 28
9:43 God's promise stands
13:06 Whitney Martinez and no condemnation
16:04 Bethel - you are not alone
20:11 The desk
23:41 Build a house in the hardship
26:05 Jacob's vow
29:42 Don't make a deal with God
33:21 What I'm asking of you
35:46 Prayer

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Scripture Referenced:
Genesis 28
Genesis 22.17
Romans 8.1
Psalm 103.10-13
Deuteronomy 31.6
Hebrews 13.5
James 1.17
2 Corinthians 9.6-8

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It's World Impact Sunday at Daybreak - the one Sunday we stop and look at everywhere God is using this church, from a bag of food packed a few miles from here to a well going in on the other side of the world.

Then Pastor Geoff pulls out a wall of Oreos and uses it to kick off a brand new series: Obsession. Starting in Genesis 25, we meet a man named Jacob whose whole story is a warning about what happens when we chase the wrong things - and a picture of what it looks like to finally have enough.

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Daybreak | September 13, 2026
Obsession | Week 1
Power Play | Geoff Eckart

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0:00 Welcome to World Impact Sunday
3:01 Hand2Hand — feeding kids in our own community
4:37 Cure Portal — meeting needs close to home
5:50 Dominican Republic — Eric's story
8:36 World Hope International
10:03 Team Hope and the road to 113 wells
18:04 Liberia — building the youth camp
19:48 Introducing Obsession
22:48 Genesis 25 — the birth of Jacob and Esau
24:41 What's in a name
26:44 The birthright — traded for a bowl of soup
34:48 A world obsessed
40:04 Genesis 27 — the stolen blessing
43:43 What if what you have is enough?
49:49 A prayer to surrender
52:57 Homework: Luke 15

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Scripture Referenced:
Genesis 25
Genesis 27
Romans 12
Luke 15

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