Episodes
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What Is the Holy Spirit Doing in the End Times?
What is the Holy Spirit doing as history moves toward its end? This message from The Grove Church in Kingston, TN wraps up the Holy Spirit in the series "The Ghost, The Pilgrim, and The Savior," Pastor Phillip Martin's fall walk through the Trinity. Built on Revelation 22:17 — "The Spirit and the...
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Will the Holy Spirit Ever Leave You?
Will the Holy Spirit ever leave you? This message from The Grove Church in Kingston, TN continues the series "The Ghost, The Pilgrim, and The Savior," Pastor Phillip Martin's walk through the Trinity. Picking up in John 14, it traces the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament — resting upon David,...
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Who Is The Holy Spirit?
Who is the Holy Spirit — a person, or just a force? This message opens a brand-new three-month series at The Grove, "The Ghost, The Pilgrim, and The Savior," walking through the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Pastor Phillip Martin starts with the Ghost, tracing the Spirit from Genesis 1 —...
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Called To Influence | Dr. Gary Alley
What is God's will for your life? You don't need a special sign. This 1 Peter 3 sermon from The Grove walks through 1 Peter 3:8-17, where Peter gives believers a prescriptive five-part code of conduct: unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.Dr. Gary Alley shows...
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Parenting Is Hard | Raising Difficult Children (Week 8) | Dr. Phillip Martin
FREE 5-DAY DEVOTIONAL WORKBOOK:Want to go deeper this week? Download "Raising Difficult Children Well," our free 5-day devotional workbook — one short reading, reflection, and prayer each day, made for parents, grandparents, and guardians. Download it free here: https://tinyurl.com/27vs9dns What…
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Speak Lord For Your Servant Hears | Dr. Gary Alley
Does God still speak today, and how can you hear God's voice? This episode walks through 1 Samuel 3 — the night God called young Samuel — and asks the question every believer faces: is your prayer life powerful or pitiful? Discover three biblical truths about hearing God: (1) God speaks — from...
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Parenting Is Hard | Divorce, Step Parents, Co-Parents (Week 7) | Dr Phillip Martin
Show Notes: What happens to kids when mom and dad stop talking to each other, or when they never stop fighting? This message from The Grove Church in Kingston, TN digs into co-parenting after divorce, using Proverbs 22:6 as a starting point and 1 John 2:4-6 as the real measuring stick: do you...
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Parenting Is Hard | Divorce, Step Parents, Co-Parents (Week 6) | Dr Phillip Martin
What does the Bible actually say about divorce, and how do you parent well when your family has already been through it? This message opens the Parenting Is Hard series' hardest topic yet, walking through Psalm 139's picture of being formed by God with purpose, before turning to the statistics...
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Grove Life Sunday | Dr. Phillip Martin & Grove Leadership
In this message from The Grove Church in Kingston, TN, Pastor Phillip Martin walks through Acts chapter 2, tracing the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came, transformed a room full of frightened disciples, and launched the church with 3,000 new believers in a single day. From there the…
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Parenting Is Hard | Even Our Heroes Struggle (Week 5) | Dr. Philip Martin
In this message, Pastor Phillip Martin continues the "Parenting Is Hard" series by looking at two parents who got it right: Abraham and Eunice. Using Genesis 22 and Psalm 78, he shows how Abraham's own trust in God is what taught Isaac to trust his father, even when Abraham was asked to sacrifice...
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Parenting Is Hard | The Passive Parent (Week 4 )| Dr. Phillip Martin
Why does a parent who's present every day sometimes lose their kids just as badly as one who's never around? This message tackles that question through the story of King David, a warrior and king who could face down giants and armies but couldn't bring himself to confront his own son. The sermon...
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Parenting Is Hard | Even Our Heroes Struggle | Part 3 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What happens when the greatest leader in the Bible misses the moments that mattered most to his own kids? In this message, Pastor Phillip Martin continues the "Parenting Is Hard" series by looking at Moses, the man who led Israel out of Egypt and parted the Red Sea, and the decision he made that...
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Parenting Is Hard | Week 2 | Forgiving Mom and Dad | Dr. Phillip Martin
Why do so many of us swear we'll parent differently than our own mom or dad, only to catch ourselves repeating the same patterns? In this sermon of the "Parenting Is Hard" series, Pastor Phillip Martin at The Grove Church in Kingston, TN tackles that question head-on in a message called…
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Parenting Is Hard | Week 1 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What does the story of the prodigal son actually teach us about being a parent? In this message, Pastor Phillip Martin of The Grove Church in Kingston, TN launches a new series called "Parenting Is Hard" and reads Luke 15 not as a salvation story but as one of the most honest pictures of a messy...
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The Gospel Legacy | Tyler Brown
What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? In this message from The Grove, Pastor Tyler Brown breaks down 2 Timothy to challenge how we measure true success. He emphasizes that the accomplishments on our resumes will eventually be forgotten, but a life lived for the gospel has eternal...
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A Common Reality and Uncommon Perspective | Dr. Gary Alley
Have you ever noticed that history just keeps repeating itself? The truth is, human nature doesn't change. The self-centered, status-driven culture of the ancient Roman world looks a whole lot like the world we live in right now. In this message, we dive deep into Luke 12 to unpack Jesus'...
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Freedom | Dr. Phillip Martin
It’s easy to celebrate living in a free country while quietly serving time in a prison of our own making. From the trap of unresolved bitterness to the heavy burden of living up to other people's expectations, many of us are locked up without even realizing it. In this episode, Dr. Phillip Martin...
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Defending Your Days and Maximizing Your Life | Week 2 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What would you do if you found out a thief was trying to break into your home? You’d lock the doors, secure the perimeter, and take immediate action. But what do you do when the enemy is actively breaking into your spiritual life? In this message, Dr. Phillip Martin unpacks the sobering, everyday...
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Defending Your Days and Maximizing Your Life | Week 1 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What would you do differently if you knew the exact date and time your life would end? In this message, we introduce a new series at The Grove: Defending Your Days and Maximizing Your Life. Diving into Proverbs 29:18, Dr. Phillip Martin unpacks how a lack of vision causes individuals, marriages,...
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Revelation | Week 7 | Dr. Phillip Martin
In this sermon, Dr. Phillip Martin brings us to a temporary pause in our verse-by-verse study of the Book of Revelation as we examine the breaking of the sixth seal in Revelation chapter 6. Up until this point, humanity has lived through the preliminary warning signs carried by the Four Horsemen....
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Revelation | Week 6 | Dr. Phillip Martin
In the message, Dr. Phillip Martin guidse us through the gripping reality of the fifth seal in Revelation chapter 6. We live in a society that has watered down the image of God into something soft and one-sided, focusing strictly on "puppies and rainbows." But what happens when we look honestly…
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The Reality Of The Gospel | Dr. Gary Alley
Is there actual evidence for the existence of God? And if so, how do we know the Gospel is true? In this message, Dr. Gary Alley tackles the biggest questions of faith by looking directly at the evidence. We explore the historical weight of the Apostle Paul's radical conversion on the road to...
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Revelation | Week 5 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What happens to the earth when the Antichrist's false peace is abruptly removed? In this message, Dr. Phillip Martin walks us through the catastrophic events of Revelation Chapter 6 as the Lamb breaks the next sequence of seals on the heavenly scroll. This deep dive into eschatology covers the...
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Am I Enough | Tyler Brown
Do you ever struggle with feeling like you aren't good enough? In this message, Pastor Tyler Brown tackles the insecurity that plagues so many of us, pointing directly to the truth found in Ephesians 2. This message strips away the world's standard of self-help and comparison, reminding believers...
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Revelation | Week 4 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What kicks off the seven-year tribulation on earth? In this episode, Dr. Phillip Martin unpacks the monumental shift from the heavenly throne room in Revelation 5 to the outpouring of God's judgment in Revelation 6. This teaching breaks down the complex subject of eschatology, exploring what...
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Revelation | Week 3 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What happens in heaven just before the tribulation begins? In this episode, Dr. Phillip Martin of The Grove examines Revelation Chapters 4 and 5, uncovering the monumental shift that sets the end times into motion. Dr. Martin walks listeners through the Apostle John’s vivid account of the throne...
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Revelation | Week 2 | Dr. Phillip Martin
In this message, Dr. Phillip Martin walks through Revelation 4 verse by verse and takes the throne room of God completely apart. You'll hear: What the Jasper stone (clear as diamond) and the Sardius stone (blood red as a Ruby) reveal about who God is — his brilliance and his coming wrath Why…
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Revelation | Week 1 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What do you do when life won't stop beating you down? Dr. Phillip Martin walks through three powerful pieces of Scripture to show why the single greatest thought you can have in the middle of pain is the thought of heaven. Paul was lowered out of a building in a basket to escape people trying to...
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Back To Eden | Easter 2026 | Dr. Phillip Martin
Every human being is searching for peace — in relationships, in vacations, in achievements, in escapes. But most of us never stop to ask why. In this Easter Sunday message, "Back to Eden," Dr. Phillip Martin answers that question by taking listeners from the very first garden in Genesis to the…
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Live On Bedrock | Dr. Gary Alley
Most of us say we believe in the resurrection — but does the way we actually live our lives show it? In this message from 1 Corinthians 15, Dr. Gary Alley walks through the ancient Christian Creed embedded in Paul's letter to the Corinthians and presents compelling historical evidence that the...
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Becoming The Man He's Never Seen | Week 5 | Dr. Phillip Martin
Biblical manhood is under pressure—from pride, from isolation, and from desires that feel too strong to control. In “The Man Who Stands – Part 2,” Dr. Phillip Martin continues the Becoming the Man He’s Never Seen series in Psalm 15 and unpacks three men we’ve all seen (and often have become): the...
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Becoming The Man He's Never Seen | Week 4 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What kind of person can stand in God’s presence and know they belong there? In this sermon, “The Man Who Stands,” from the series Becoming the Man He’s Never Seen, Dr. Phillip Martin walks through Psalm 15 and paints a clear picture of the “Psalm 15 man,” a person marked by integrity, loyalty…
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Becoming The Man He's Never Seen | Week 3 | Dr. Phillip Martin
What kind of parent are you really raising your children to become? In this sermon — "The Man Who Is Followed" — part of the series "Becoming the Man He's Never Seen" — we open Proverbs 20:7 and take an honest, sometimes uncomfortable look at how the way we live shapes the children we raise. Dr....
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Becoming The Man He's Never Seen | Week 2 | Dr. Phillip Martin
Outside of salvation, the greatest step of faith you'll ever make is who you marry. So why do so many marriages end up in survival mode instead of thriving? In this message from the Becoming the Man He's Never Seen series, Pastor Philip gets brutally honest about the state of marriage — the...
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Becoming The Man He's Never Seen | Week 1 | Dr. Phillip Martin
A new sermon series on biblical manhood starts here. Pastor Phillip Martin opens up about the crisis facing men today: the absence of godly role models, unspoken struggles with anxiety and depression, and the cultural confusion about what it means to be a man. If you're a man feeling lost or...
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The Day The Lord Stopped Listening | Dr. Phillip Martin
Have you ever felt like God isn't listening to your prayers? Or worse...have you considered that maybe you've stopped listening to Him? In this convicting and encouraging message,Dr. Phillip Martin tackles one of the hardest questions in the Christian life: What happens when we stop listening to...
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6 Ways To Waste Your New Year | Week 4 | Dr. Phillip Martin
Discouragement is more dangerous than most people realize—because it rarely stops at discouragement. In this Sunday message, we finish the series “Six Ways to Waste Your New Year (or Waste Your Life)” with a powerful final point: when discouragement lingers, it can turn into disheartenment, then...
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6 Ways To Waste Your New Year | Week 3 | Dr. Phillip Martin
In this message from John 16:33, we confront one of the most common ways believers waste their year and their life: living in discouragement. Jesus never promised a trouble free life. He promised peace in the middle of pressure. This sermon explores how fear, stress, failure, and outside voices...
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6 Ways To Ruin Your New Year | Week 2 | Dr.Phillip Martin
In this Sunday message, we continue the series “Six Ways to Waste Your New Year” with a full walk through Romans 12. This episode tackles two common patterns that derail spiritual growth and relational peace: 1) Remaining stubborn and refusing to change 2) Feeding comparison and contempt Romans…
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6 Ways To Waste Your New Year | Week 1 | Dr. Phillip Martin
Life is short. Time is limited. And God has entrusted every one of us with something. In this message from Matthew 25, Pastor Philip launches the series “Six Ways to Waste Your New Year” by confronting one of the most common spiritual traps: playing it safe. Using the Parable of the Talents, he...
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Active In Sharing Your Faith | Tyler Brown
Are you praying generally or specifically? In this message, Pastor Tyler explores the "one-page" book of Philemon and a specific prayer that has the power to transform our families and our church. It is easy to stay within the safety of church walls, but the Great Commission calls us to go where...
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Carry The Light | Dr. Gary Alley
Christmas may be over, but the light of Christ is not seasonal. In this Sunday-after-Christmas message, we explore John 1:1–5 and the powerful truth that Jesus is the Living Word—fully God, present before creation, active in creation, and present with us today. John teaches that in Him is life…
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Salvation | Week 3| Dr. Phillip Martin
What is salvation, really? Not the version we repeat, assume, or reduce, but the version Jesus actually teaches. In this sermon from the Salvation series, Pastor Philip takes listeners deep into John chapter 3 and the late-night conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus. This message connects the...
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Salvation | Week 2 | Dr. Phillip Martin
This message presses past surface level Christianity and challenges what salvation actually is. Pastor Philip Martin walks through Genesis 3, John 3, Romans 5, and Numbers 21 to show why sin always produces shame, hiding, and self-covering, and why those patterns still shape religious culture...
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Salvation | Week 1 | Dr. Phillip Martin
This sermon opens our salvation series by challenging the assumptions that many people carry about what it means to be saved. The message walks through creation, the fall, the entrance of death, and God’s first promise of redemption in Genesis 3:15, setting the stage for why rebirth is essential...
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Isn't Life Grand | Week 5 | Dr. Phillip Martin
In this week’s sermon, Pastor Phillip teaches from Luke 19 as Jesus meets Zacchaeus in Jericho. This message breaks down the journey from Capernaum, the cultural context of tax collectors, and the contrast between Zacchaeus and the rich young ruler. You’ll hear why salvation is more than a…
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Isn't Life Grand | Week 4 | Tyler Brown
Pastor Tyler walks through 2 Corinthians 9 and explains how gratitude and generosity shape the life of a believer. This message breaks down why Paul challenges the church in Corinth, what cheerful giving really means, and how a mindset of abundance grows when we practice thankfulness. Tyler…
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Isn't Life Grand | Week 3 | Dr. Phillip Martin
Pastor Philip Martin teaches from Acts 27, walking through Paul’s violent storm at sea and what it reveals about gratitude, faith, and endurance. If you’re battling an emotional storm, fighting fear, or trying to hold your life together while everything shakes, this message will speak directly to...
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Isn't Life Grand | Week 2 | Dr. Phillip Martin
In this message, Pastor Philip Martin walks through the story of the rich young ruler and the hard truth Jesus taught about giving. The man didn’t walk away because he was poor—he walked away because he had too much. Jesus doesn’t need what’s in your hands. He wants your heart. When you’re…
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Isn't Life Grand | Week 1 | Dr. Gary Alley
In this message, Dr. Gary Alley teaches from Colossians 3 using the analogy of a recipe to show how God shapes our character. Every believer is a work in progress, and what we put into our hearts determines who we become. Paul’s call to the Colossian church was simple: take out the wrong...
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