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The Grove Church
by The Grove Church
Honest sermons about faith and doubt.
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Peace as Fruit | What kind of war brings real peace?
“Peace is not a project. It’s a person.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES Life is not supposed to be this way, and we all know it. So we blame: the other party, the boss, the spouse, the kids. But Paul says the war is not out there. It is in us. The flesh is a two-faced monster, self-reliance on one side...
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Joy | Why joy isn’t something you can find
“Joy isn’t found. It finds you.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES We were made for Eden: a land of delight, a table of friends, and the face of God. Then we bit the fruit and the gates closed. Now the flesh, the monster within, chases joy on its own terms, squeezing delight out of thorns, and we either...
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To Kill the Monster Within | Why fighting the monster within only makes it stronger
“Self-reliance grows the monster within.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES Carl Jung was right that every one of us carries a monster within. Paul says it is worse: self-reliance feeds it. Ignore the monster and it grows; fight it in your own strength and it grows more. Religious or irreligious, we each...
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The War Within | Why freedom is not a license to sin but a license to love
“Freedom is a license to love.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES We long for a city on a hill, a people who have our back, yet too often we are known and rejected. When we are not loved as we hoped, the flesh stirs and we bite. Biting becomes a habit, the habit becomes devouring, and a sheep becomes a…
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Just a Little Leaven | How one small addition to Christ can quietly cost you everything
“Adding to Christ is changing allegiance.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES We were running well. Then a break in the road stops us, and a persuasive voice says Christ is good, but you also need this: the moral resume, the voting record, the practices. It never sounds like opposition; it sounds like…
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Unmistakably Free | How to find the only Yoke that sets you free
“Yoked to Christ & unmistakably free.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES We are all yoked to something. Obedience, the family code, the career, or the law of freedom itself, each one promising the good life if we will only keep it. But the law has no legs. One failure and its weight pins us where we stand,...
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Sing, O Barren One | How to cast out what’s keeping you from the good life
“When life’s hard; Sing His Promises.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES The good life does not arrive on our timeline, so we begin to scheme. Like Sarah, we stop waiting and take matters into our own hands, using rules, effort, and even the quality of our own faith to force God’s hand. It never works....
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Spiritual Leaders | How to know what leaders to trust
“True Spiritual Leaders Labor to form you in Christ.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES A serpent came into the garden clothed in light, claiming to guide us, and we lost the people we were given. Ever since then we feel isolated, wounded, unsure we can trust even our friends. To this day, spiritual…
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From Slaves to Sons | How Rule Breakers and Rule Followers Are Both Slaves
“The Father is the good life.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES Everyone wants the good life, and we chase it down two paths: rule keeping and rule breaking. They look like opposites, but both are the same bite of the same fruit, the good life without God. Both enslave. WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE When the...
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Heirs At Last | Why Christ Is Your Only Long-Awaited Hope
“Christ the Son made us heirs.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES Believers and skeptics alike know something is not right here. Sin lost us the land, divided the people, and cost us the blessing of God’s presence. And the law, our guardian, cannot carry us home. So we live like heirs locked outside the...
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Yeah, But God Promised | How to Reconcile God’s Law and God’s Grace
BIG IDEA “The law imprisons. The promise frees.” WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES We keep living in a two-party deal we cannot win. The law was never given to save us; it exposes sin and imprisons everything under it. So we hide from the God who comes to bless, or we go on pretending our sin does not…
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The Cursed God | Why Trying to Be a Good Person Is Slowly Killing You
FALLEN CONDITION We live by an invisible ledger, sure that if the good outweighs the bad, God will bless us. But the law does not grade on a curve. It demands perfect keeping. One failure chains us to the cursed mountain. SOLUTION IN CHRIST Christ left the mountain of blessing to come to ours. He...
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What Can’t Be Earned | Why Good Works Might Be Your Greatest Enemy
BIG IDEA “The good life isn’t earned, only received.” FALLEN CONDITION We trust our works for what only God can give. Like the bewitched Galatians, we know the gospel and yet live as though our performance, our persistence, and our religion will finally earn what was always meant to be received....
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How to Be Free from the Opinions of Others, No Matter Who Is in the Room
BIG IDEA “Approval through Christ sets you Free.” FALLEN CONDITION We walk into every room as slaves to the opinions of others. Their praise goes to our head and their disapproval goes to our heart, and we wear ourselves out performing for a verdict we can never finally win. Even our religion can...
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The War Room | How Gospel Clarity keeps you Free
“Gospel Clarity keeps you free.” FALLEN CONDITION We keep trading the freedom Christ has won for chains of our own making. Gatekeepers from the outside say “Jesus plus ___”. Keep the rules, perform, prove yourself. The voice from the inside whispers we still aren’t enough. Either way, we step…
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They Glorified God Because of My Story | Why You Can’t Find Truth, But It Must Find You
BIG IDEA “Truth revealed produces transformation and worship.” FALLEN CONDITION We are all searching for truth about God, ourselves, and how to live, but every source we turn to (institutions, tradition, the inner voice) proves insufficient and leads us further from the God we seek. SOLUTION IN...
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Our Real Need for Approval | How to Be Free from the Fear of Rejection and the Lust for Approval
“Live from approval, not for it.” FALLEN CONDITION We are slaves to the fear of rejection and the craving for approval. A few people’s opinions carry enormous weight, and without realizing it we let them rule our lives; shrinking, performing, and comparing to win a verdict we can never secure....
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No Other Gospel | What you might be getting wrong about Christianity
BIG IDEA “Grace plus anything is no longer grace.” FALLEN CONDITION We are restless self-saviors. Even when we believe in Jesus, we keep trying to add our performance, politics, or tribe to His finished work — and in doing so we defect from the very grace that set us free. SOLUTION IN CHRIST On…
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Secret Kings & Signet Rings | There's a Secret King Wrecking Your Home
Big Idea: Crown Christ & your house flourishes. Problem: We want the kingdom without the king, therefore we loose both Solution: Jesus comes to dismantle all false kings hidden deep in our homes, so we might crown Him Vision for The Grove: Become a community where the secret rooms of our hearts…
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A Pure House | Why Your Obedience Isn't Bringing God's Blessing
Big Idea: In Christ, holiness becomes contagious. Problem: Obedience without a pure heart keeps the blessings from God’s presence from us Solution: Christ came to be defiled in death so we can be brought into the pure presence of God. Vision: The Grove becomes a pure house. Not a community of...
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God’s Presence our Obedience | How to Have a Full Life
Big Idea: Building God’s house produces abundant life Problem: We disobey God and seek the abundant life by building our house at the neglect of God’s Solution: God disrupts our efforts to stir us into joyful and fulfilling obedience that leads to abundant life Vision: A church built upon the...
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Consider Your Ways | How to find Fulfilment
Big Idea: God First=Fulfillment Problem: We prioritize our own lives over God’s house, yet we remain empty, restless, and unfulfilled. Solution: Center your life around God’s presence and building His house, and He will fulfill you. Vision: A church where every person is actively building others...
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The Sacred Fruitful Land | Easter Sermon 2026
Big Idea: The Seed of Eden is Christ Problem: We have eaten of the wrong fruit therefore we are producing fruitless lives. Solution: Jesus is the seed of Eden buried in death and raised as the first fruits so that His life can grow in us and restore both us and the world. Links: Website:...
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The King & The Sacred Space
Big Idea: What we corrupt Jesus makes sacred Problem: We corrupt what was meant to be sacredby wanting the sacred without the King Solution: Jesus makes us, the church, into the sacred space where God is present. Vision for Church:A people who live as holy ground cleansed, filled with God's...
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The Wise Interpreter | How to interpret the story of your Life
Big Idea: The Author loves surprising reversals Problem: We assume life should follow predictable formulas, so we struggle to trust God when it doesn't Solution: Learn to interpret your story through the lens of the great reversals found in Christ and scripture Vision:A church of people who learn...
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The Storm Tossed | How to Find God in Storms and Tell Others About Him
Big Idea: Storms are stories of discovering God Problem: We trust our wisdom until God sends a storm beyond it. Solution: Cry out to God, and He will meet you in the storm and carry you to a safe haven. Vision: A church of people who tell their story of how God met them in the storm, carried them...
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The Fool How to be Complete
Big Idea: Folly bends but God’s word restores Problem: Our sin bends us, and if our path continues, we will twist into someone unrecognizable Solution: Christ is the Word come to heal us, transform us, and make us whole. Vision: A church of redeemed storytellers who tell the truth about how folly...
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The Prisoner | How to live Free
Big Idea: Christ sets prisoners free Problem: The sin that promises freedom and life to lost weary travelers, only enslaves Solution: Cry out to God and Christ will come break your chains and set you free Vision: A church of people who tell their story of how God rescued them from hidden chains,...
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The Wanderer | How To Find Satisfaction
Big Idea: God leads restless souls toward satisfaction. Problem: Our souls grow faint because we keep searching for satisfaction where it cannot be found. Solution: God frees us from aimless wandering by leading us toward the only city that satisfies. Vision: To become a people who can name our...
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Shinning Oaks | How to Find Everything You Are Looking for
Big Idea: Become the City you Seek Problem: We seek the city of heaven on earth without realizing we are meant to become it Solution: By Faith in Christ, we rise up as shining oaks, equipped to build and become the city we seek Vision: Together, become a church so deeply rooted in Christ that,...
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Living Hope | How Hope Makes Us People Who Endure With Joy
Big Idea: Hope fuels present endurance and joy. Problem: Joy and strength are lost when hope is tied to circumstances. Solution: Hope in Christ’s promised return offers us joy and strength through all trials. Vision: Become people who endure suffering with visible joy because our lives are…
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Allegiance To The True King | How To Bring Heaven Into The World Around You
Big Idea: Allegiance to Christ brings heaven down. Problem: We chase the delights of the true kingdom without the true King. Solution: Renounce all rival kings, and plead allegiance to no king but Christ. Vision: A church so loyal to the ascended King that heaven quietly invades the world through...
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God Enters Space & Time | How To Make The Best Use Of Your Life
Big Idea: God entered space and time for us. Problem: There isn’t enough of us to go around. Solution: Jesus entered our limitations and focused on His mission; so, we must prioritize our mission. Vision: A people who live with clarity instead of exhaustion—trusting God’s presence in them and…
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The Creator Entered Creation
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:3 Links: Website: https://thegrovechurch.co Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegrovechurchofficial Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrovechurchofficial Sermon Audio:...
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The Sustainer Becomes Dependent
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17 Links: Website: https://thegrovechurch.co Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegrovechurchofficial Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrovechurchofficial Sermon Audio: https://soundcloud.com/thegrovechurchofficial...
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God becomes Vulnerable
Main Passages • Luke 2:7 (ESV) 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. • Philippians 2:7 (ESV) 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men....
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Cruciform | Love: The Hardest, Most Rewarding Thing you Will Ever Do
Big Idea: Live a loving, cross-shaped life Problem: We are curved inward, living for ourselves in self-centered life. Solution: Christ’s love transformed us and empowered us toward cross-shaped sacrificial love. Vision: To form a people so transformed by the sacrificial love of Christ that they...
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Incarnate | How Shame and Pride make us lonely and longing
Big Idea: God became man to lift our shame Problem: We hide to protect our shame, and use pride as a coat to cover it. Solution: Christ wore our flesh and shame to clothe us in His righteousness and bring us out of hiding Vision: To become people who live vulnerably present; free from shame,...
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A New World | How to stop being so cynical and learn to hope again
Big Idea: Love raises up a New World Problem: Love requires choice, so the possibility of love brought sin, sin broke us and our world. Solution: while love broke the world, love also entered the world to heal it like a seed buried in the grave. Vision: To become people who plant the seeds of…
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A New Heart | How to have the Power to leave the old behind and become New
Big Idea: New Heart = New Power & New Life Problem: Following our hearts leads to slavery to sin, and leaves us powerless to escape Solution: Christ gives us a heart transplant and with it new life, new freedom, and new power. Vision: To live each day from the new heart Christ has given; walking…
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A New Record | How to Find Approval and Love
Big Idea: Christ purchases us a New Record Problem: We seek approval, love, and admiration through striving but find guilt, shame, and rejection Solution: Christ came to take our record and give us His; now we have everything we seek Vision: The vision is a church full of people who have left the...
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The Ascension | How to dethrone false kings and crown the true King
That every believer would see the ascension not as Christ’s absence but as His enthronement—first in heaven, and now within us. That we would dethrone the false kings that have ruined our hearts and our world, and join the King’s holy heist—bringing His reign of love, justice, wisdom, and grace…
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The Resurrection
The resurrection is hard to believe, but without it, life is empty and purposeless. Jesus met Thomas in his doubts, gave him what he needed to believe, and transformed him into a bold witness. In the same way, Christ meets us in our doubts, shows us His scars, and calls us to believe so we might...
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The Incarnation | How To Become Truly Human
We lost our humanity by reaching for life, love, freedom, and strength apart from God. But God became fully human in Christ, taking on our weakness, guilt, shame, and death—to restore us to true humanity.
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The Cursed God | How to Find Your Story
When we don’t understand the kind of story we’re living in, we reel with anger toward God and run toward destruction. But the Author has stepped into our tragedy—taking the curse we wrote—and rewritten it into a redemptive story.
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The Author | How to Trust the One Writing Your Story
When we steal God’s pen, our story ends in tragedy. But Jesus has written Himself into our story to rewrite it into abundant life.
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Delighting In A Kingdom Of Covenantal Love
Delighting In A Kingdom Of Covenantal Love Series: Delighting In God's Kingdom Psalm 30:5
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Delighting In A Kingdom Of Joy
Delighting In A Kingdom Of Joy How To Find & Keep Your Joy No Matter What Series: Delighting In God's Kingdom Psalm 30:5
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August 10th, 2025
August 10th, 2025 by The Grove Church
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