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

January 5, 2025 • 45 mins
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As we embark into a new year, let us be reminded from Peter of some biblical goals that we can incorporate into the resolutions we have for ourselves for 2025.
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December 24, 2024 • 59 mins
Welcome to our Christmas Eve service. As you listen along, it is our hope that you will be filled with joy and peace of Christ, and celebrate his birth with us.
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December 22, 2024 • 31 mins
The Magi present after the birth of Christ is one aspect of the Christmas story that invokes many questions and mystery. Despite the unknowns, there is still a lesson that we can learn from how the Magi respond to the birth of a King. Listen along to learn what that is!
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December 21, 2024 • 41 mins
For some, the holidays can be filled with joy and happiness and celebration. But for others, this time of year can bring about feelings of sadness from the loss they have experienced in their lives. The Blue Christmas service at The Grove strives to recognize this fact and give people not only a place to recognize and process their sadness and/or grief, but to find hope in Jesus Christ as well.
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December 15, 2024 • 34 mins
On this third week of Advent, our focus shifts to the angels appearance to the shepherds. God took some of the lowliest members of that ancient culture and used them to be the first messengers of His son's birth. And like the shepherds, we too carry the responsibility of sharing that joyous and wonderful news all these years later.
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December 8, 2024 • 27 mins
There can only be one King in your life. This week, the advent week of peace, we will talk about the reasons why Christ should be the one and only King in your life, why he deserves to be our King.
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December 1, 2024 • 36 mins
Jesus' genealogy is full of Easter Eggs, and no not the ones you stuff full of candy and hide on Easter. Easter eggs are also like hidden messages. In the genealogy of Jesus that Matthew shares at the beginning of his gospel, he is trying to share a message with us. Tune in to find out what that message is as we begin the advent season!
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November 17, 2024 • 37 mins
This is our last sermon in this series and the final church that is addressed in the book of Revelation is Laodicea, which is perhaps most known for being lukewarm. By reading the Bible we know that God does not want us to be lukewarm in our faith or in our actions towards Him. Tune in to discover instead what can be done to be on fire for God and what will happen when we do that.
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November 10, 2024 • 33 mins
As we have been studying the seven letters sent to the seven churches in Revelation, we have seen Jesus present in front of these churches rewards for good behavior and promised discipline for bad behavior. The letter to the church of Philadelphia is a perfect example for the type of church that will receive God's blessings, and what those blessings look like.
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October 27, 2024 • 25 mins
This week we take a little break from our To the Church series to talk about seeing people for how God sees people. Tune in as Pastor Craig shares what Jesus saw. what he felt, and what he did when he came into contact with people.
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October 20, 2024 • 26 mins
This week, the church at Pergamum is addressed. This church had a problem of allowing a false teacher to remain in their midst because of weak leadership. This false teacher is referred to as a Jezebel. Ultimately, the question for this church, which extends to us, is are you going to follow Jesus or Jezebel because you can't follow both.
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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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October 6, 2024 • 29 mins
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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September 1, 2024 • 35 mins
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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