Messages from The Grove

John Driver continues our series on Psalm 100 with a focus on verse 2: serve the Lord with gladness. What does it mean to “serve the Lord” and do we truly believe that doing so should produce gladnes…

The first verse of Psalms 100 describes what appears to be a simple action that we are to participate in: shout! In our conversation today, Pastor Andrew discusses how the focus probably should not b…

John Driver kicks off a new summer series exploring the act of worship as revealed in Psalm 100.

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John Driver wraps up the series at the feeding of the 5000 in John 6. There are times when the questions of Jesus are meant to cause us to take inventory of what we believe is possible and impossible…

As we continue this series, Pastor Andrew delves into multiple questions that Jesus asked, culminating in a connectivity to the concept of our lives being transformed by Christ as to how we live our …

Today, we delve into the walk to Emmaus and the question Jesus asked: “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along? What things?” The narrative backdrop of this journey illuminates various …

In this conversation Pastor Andrew explores the metaphor of the fruit tree and solid foundation as a relates to how our heart reflects our outward expressions. We explore the question "So why do you …

John Driver explores the next line of the Apostles’ Creed: "From there he [Christ] will come to judge the living and the dead.” These topics can easily cause obsession over times, dates, and possible…

Today Pastor Andrew will delve into the events of Jesus' ascension into heaven. His present status is being seated at the right hand of the father and why these are essential both for understanding l…

John Driver addresses the next stanza from the Apostles’ Creed: [Jesus] was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead.” The cross is the pla…

Today, Pastor Andrew dives into the truths encapsulated in the apostles' creed, focusing on the stanza: "and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the…

John Driver kicks off a new series by exploring the ways different people embrace a vast diversity of Christian beliefs, which can lead to confusion and division. The Early Church had the same experi…

Today Pastor Andrew takes a dive into what it means to slow down and allow creation to speak to us and just how far that creation goes. Allowing those things which God created to feed our souls, stre…

John Driver explores the story of ten men with leprosy who were healed by Jesus, but only one slowed down long enough to return and say “thank you.” It is all too easy for us to get so caught up in t…

Pastor Andrew leads us in our last message of the series on the Lord’s Table with the focus specifically on “the table”, to which we gather around to celebrate the festivity of communion. We discover…

aIn the penultimate message of the series, John Driver explores how our own developmental stories affect the practices we adopt— and how the story of the gospel leads us out of stagnation and into an…

John Driver addresses some of the difficulties the modern mind has with Jesus’s use of the term “blood” as connected to wine that we drink. Returning to God’s covenant “blood walk” with Abram in Gene…

The act of communion was a table that Christ laid out for us to participate in. By doing so, it also speaks to the element of us being together as believers. Today we examine how taking communion is …

John Driver opens up a new series exploring the biblical and historical event of Holy Communion and what it means for us today as an ongoing practice (reflected in many different church traditions) i…

Often we neglect the fact that being a follower of Christ comes with persecution because we think persecution is only being put to death or made a public mockery of for the Faith. Today we explore th…