Sacred + Unfiltered

That's Not Discernment!

Discernment is one of the most powerful — and most misused — words in church culture. We say “God showed me…”We say “something in my spirit feels off…”We say “I’m just discerning…” But what happens when what we’re calling discernment… isn’t actually from God? In this episode of Sacred + Unfiltered, Genesis challenges the way spiritual language is often used to label, judge, or distance ourselves from others — and explores the difference between true discernment and personal discomfort dressed up as something spiritual. Following last week’s conversation on jealousy, this episode goes deeper into what can come after it — how comparison, insecurity, and misunderstanding can quietly shape the way we “discern” people. Because real discernment requires humility. It requires maturity. And it should always point back to truth — not control. Not everything labeled discernment… is from God. Sometimes what we think we see in others…is actually revealing something in us. 📲 Follow Sacred + Unfiltered - Instagram/TikTok: @sacredunfiltered📺 Subscribe on YouTube🎧 Listen on all podcast platforms⭐️ If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, please rate, review, and follow the show - it helps this conversation reach who needs it.Powered by: @ThePlugNtwrk Season 2 Sponsor: 9th CrownNew episodes every Thursday at 2:13pm (podcast) and 7pm

Church Girls Are Jealous Too.

Jealousy isn’t something we talk about often in church spaces — especially when it comes to women. We talk about sisterhood. We talk about support. We talk about lifting each other up. But if we’re honest… Comparison shows up. Insecurity shows up. And sometimes, so does jealousy. In this episode of Sacred + Unfiltered, Genesis unpacks the quiet ways jealousy can exist in church culture — how it hides behind politeness, how it’s often left unaddressed, and what it actually reveals beneath the surface. Through the story of Leah and Rachel, this conversation explores how identity, worth, and the need to be seen can shape the way we relate to one another — even in spiritual spaces. Because ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. And pretending we’re above it doesn’t make us whole. 📲 Follow Sacred + Unfiltered - Instagram/TikTok: @sacredunfiltered📺 Subscribe on YouTube🎧 Listen on all podcast platforms⭐️ If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, please rate, review, and follow the show - it helps this conversation reach who needs it.Powered by: @ThePlugNtwrk Season 2 Sponsor: 9th CrownNew episodes every Thursday at 2:13pm (podcast) and 7pm

Let This Mind Be In You--From Fear-Based Faith to Christ-Centered Consciousness

What does it actually mean to have the “mind of Christ”?In this episode of Sacred + Unfiltered, Genesis explores the difference between a mind formed by fear and a mind renewed by love. Drawing from Philippians 2 and Romans 12, this conversation unpacks how church culture often confused obedience with compliance—and how the invitation of Jesus was never about control, but transformation.This episode dives into the theology of kenosis, the psychology of fear-based faith, and the slow, sacred work of renewing the mind.Because if fear, shame, and performance are stripped away…What actually replaces them?📲 Follow Sacred + Unfiltered - Instagram/TikTok: @sacredunfiltered📺 Subscribe on YouTube🎧 Listen on all podcast platforms⭐️ If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, please rate, review, and follow the show - it helps this conversation reach who needs it.Powered by: @ThePlugNtwrk Season 2 Sponsor: 9th CrownNew episodes every Thursday at 2:13pm (podcast) and 7pm

Parenting While Unlearning Fear-Based Faith

Some of us were taught to fear God before we were taught to trust Him.Now we’re raising children.In this episode, Genesis explores what it means to parent from healing instead of hyper-vigilance. From church culture that equated obedience with silence to theology that wired the body for anxiety — how do you raise kids in faith without handing them your fear?This is about trauma-informed spirituality, discernment without paranoia, reverence without terror, and the courage to admit:“I don’t want to pass this down.”Because generational cycles don’t just live in behavior.They live in belief.📲 Follow Sacred + Unfiltered - Instagram/TikTok: @sacredunfiltered📺 Subscribe on YouTube🎧 Listen on all podcast platforms⭐️ If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, please rate, review, and follow the show - it helps this conversation reach who needs it.Powered by: @ThePlugNtwrk Season 2 Sponsor: 9th CrownNew episodes every Thursday at 2:13pm (podcast) and 7pm

My Truth vs. God's Truth

What happens when “my truth” gets labeled rebellion…and “God’s truth” gets used as a weapon?In this episode, we reclaim language that’s been mishandled in church spaces—especially in Black church culture—where lived experience has too often been silenced in the name of submission. We unpack the difference between God’s truth (ultimate, divine reality) and my truth (lived experience, testimony, perception), and why the two were never meant to compete.Through John 1:14, John 8:32, and the raw honesty of the Psalms, we explore how truth in Scripture is embodied, freeing, and spacious enough to hold grief, doubt, trauma, and testimony. We also confront how suppressing experience creates spiritual disconnection—and how “my truth” only becomes dangerous when it replaces humility, not when it names reality.This conversation asks the question many are afraid to say out loud:Can God’s truth and my lived experience coexist without canceling each other?The answer may be the freedom you didn’t know you were allowed to have.📲 Follow Sacred + Unfiltered - Instagram/TikTok: @sacredunfiltered📺 Subscribe on YouTube🎧 Listen on all podcast platforms⭐️ If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, please rate, review, and follow the show - it helps this conversation reach who needs it.Powered by: @ThePlugNtwrk Season 2 Sponsor: 9th CrownNew episodes every Thursday at 2:13pm (podcast) and 7pm