The Grove Community Church Podcast

The Grove Community Church Podcast

Welcome to The Grove Community Church (formally known as Lake Cities Community Church). We are a nondenominational Christian church in Rowlett, TX. This podcast is a place where you can listen to our sermons and other content. We pray it will be an encouragement to you and your walk with Jesus Christ. Our mission is to win people to Christ, build them up into healthy and balanced believers, and send them out into our community, country, and to the ends of the earth to spread the love of Jesus. We hold tightly to what we believe, but we will not let grey issues define us as a people. That means wherever you are on your journey of faith, you are welcome here. Ephesian 4:4-5 "There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to the one hope when you were called, one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." Our desire is to win people to Christ, build them up into healthy and balanced believers, and send them out into our community, country, and to the ends of the earth to spread the love of Jesus. We believe that as we fulfill our mission, we will move closer to our vision: To be a mid-sized church serving the community around us and to be a multigenerational church with a next-gen lean. To be a mid-sized church serving the community around us: We are in the middle of building a new facility on what once was a field next to our current building. This new facility, combined with the current building will allow us to expand our ministry capabilities by partnering with two for-profit companies to invite the community into our facility every day of the week. We believe God is leading us to expand to a church of 300-400 people. This growth will allow us to better serve Rowlett and the surrounding community. To be a multigenerational church with a next-gen lean: We have a passion and love for all ages and demographics at The Grove. We truly desire to be a multigenerational and multicultural church and we believe we can best do this by leaning toward the next generation. What this means is that we use accessible language, music, graphics, and outreach events that we feel will be appealing and attractive to the current generation. As we do this, we are committed to holding tightly to the truths found in the Bible and to loving all of our members equally, regardless of age, race, or gender.

Episodes

October 13, 2024 35 mins
We have come to the third church out of the seven mentioned in the book of Revelation; the church in Pergamum. Similar to the church in Ephesus, Pergamum is both complimented and given a complaint. In this church, false teachers were allowed to influence people. Tune in to hear not just about how God told this church to fix this problem, but how we can apply it to ourselves and our church now.
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This week we turn our focus to the church of Smyrna, the only church to not receive correction. The church of Smyrna was enduring a lot of persecution, and from their example, we too can learn what to do under the pressure of persecution.
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October 1, 2024 32 mins
This week we unpack the first letter to the first church, the church of Ephesus. While Ephesus is doing several things right, we discover that they have lost their love of Christ. Listen along to hear about what the result of this can be for not only the church of Ephesus, but the Church today.
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September 22, 2024 39 mins
In the first part of revelation, Jesus is using John to get a message out to his church, trying to get them, like he tries to get us, to listen to His voice. In this first sermon in this series, we will look at the reason for this letter to the church, what John saw of Jesus, and what our response should be.
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In part two of this two week mini sermon series, Pastor Craig shares advanced relationship skills 11-22 that can be drawn out from Paul's letter to Philemon. Tune in and let the wisdom of this book speak into your life.
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Everyone has experienced a tricky, uncomfortable, or hard situations with people around us. Paul experienced a situation like this when he met Onesmus, a runaway slave of his good friend Philemon. For situations like this, it is good to have some advanced relationship skills. In this first part of this mini series, we will look at 10 of 22 of these skills.
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It can sometimes be easy to become unfocused in our faith. There are a lot of stressors and distractions in our lives that can take our focus away from Jesus. However, in Acts 2, we can learn from Peter 3 aspects of Jesus to focus on as we live out our Christian faith.
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As we close up this short series on the life of Jonah, we will see a lack of compassion from Jonah, but the unfathomable extent of God's compassion. From this, we can learn to rekindle our own compassion for unbelievers around us.
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Jonah has had a change of heart. He has decided to obey God and go to Nineveh and warn the Assyrians of their destruction. This week we will look at the next part in the story of Jonah and discover a principle God has for us all.
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August 11, 2024 35 mins
Last week we began the story of Jonah and went over Jonah's disobedience and how he felt justified in his disobedience. This week we look at the prayer Jonah prays while in the belly of the great fish after God "catches up" with Jonah.
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We have come to the conclusion of our unity series. As we wrap this sermon series up, we are reminded from Psalm 133 just how beautiful unity is, and how unity happens.
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July 21, 2024 29 mins
Last week. Pastor Craig shared with us how we should be engaging with our enemies, and that we really don't have enemies, we have neighbors. However, we still live in a sin filled world and mistakes are still going to be made that get in the way of unity. When this happens, we need to remember to have grace. This is illustrated so beautifully in a parable about the Kingdom of Heaven. Listen along to find out how.
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July 14, 2024 36 mins
Who is your enemy? Who has hurt you? If we want unity to triumph and be one of our defining characteristics, then we have to engage with our enemies in a biblical way. Listen along to find out exactly how.
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As we continue our series on unity, we learn how and why our unity can be one of our greatest tools for evangelism.
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Just as a choir is united in song or a club for the name Lois is united by their common name, as a church we can be united through our mission. Listen along as Pastor Craig shares about how our mission here at The Grove is inspired by The Great Commission.
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June 23, 2024 44 mins
Did you know that immaturity and pride can affect the unity of the bod of Christ? It can and does when we don't mature in the Lord or we allow our pride to destroy our relationships. So what is the antidote? Listen along to find out.
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June 16, 2024 27 mins
This week we had a special speaker preaching from the word. Gary Leavelle, the chairman of our elder board, shared out of Psalm 46. Listen along as Gary take us through some big takeaways from this passage, and what it means to be still before God.
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June 9, 2024 33 mins
What happens when gray issues are mishandled? Ultimately, the result is legalism within the church. Throughout church history, legalism has left a lasting impression on both Christians and non-Christians. This week, we will dig into this topic of legalism and how it can be combated.
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We all have freedom in Christ. However, much like the Roman church, many of us have differing view points. This week we will explore why we would limit our liberty in order to preserve our unity.
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May 26, 2024 36 mins
Now that we have a definition of unity, we have figured out which things are cardinal doctrines, clear teachings, or gray issues, we can now look at 3 strategies for bringing unity into focus, even within a gray issue.
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