The Grove Church

06/06/2026

Faith isn’t the absence of questions. It’s choosing to keep pursuing God in the middle of them.

That’s why we believe church should be a place where honest questions are welcomed, not avoided.

Join us Sunday at 10 a.m.

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05/29/2026

Hey Grovers!
Our next newsletter is coming up, and we’d love to hear your story.

Your testimony could encourage others and help build up our church family.

If you’d like to share what God has done in your life, submit your story today!

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Together, writing stories of new life in Christ. "Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story." — Psalm 107:2 There is power in the word of your testimony. When you name what God has done, you give someone else a reason to believe he can do it again. These stories will be shared in The Grove new...

05/29/2026

“Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.”
— Psalm 127:1

Jesus has brought us together, and every act of service, every prayer, and every step of faith matters.

As we labor side by side, He is building something greater than any of us could build alone.

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05/28/2026

Some people never give Christianity a real chance, not because they’ve deeply searched it out, but because they’re afraid of losing the approval of people around them.

Some people call themselves Christians because it’s what they were raised in, even though they’ve never personally wrestled with who Jesus is.

But Jesus is a real person, fully God and fully man, who stepped into human suffering to bring us back to the Father.

The real adventure is discovering Him for yourself beyond the fears, expectations, and opinions handed to you.

05/23/2026

We often assume that if God loves us, He will remove difficulty.

But Scripture teaches something deeper: God uses even hardship to shape us to become more like Christ. The wilderness is not evidence of God’s absence.

It may be one of the very places where He is forming your heart to look more like His.

05/21/2026

Under pressure, the early church didn’t panic.
They prayed.

Stephen prayed while being stoned.
Peter’s friends prayed while he was imprisoned.
Paul and Silas prayed and worshipped in prison.

Maybe self-control doesn’t start with trying harder.
Maybe it starts with praying sooner.

Grace teaches us.
Hope strengthens us.
Christ leads us.

Let’s be the kind of community that prays—together.

See you Sunday at The Grove.

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05/14/2026

The most shocking claim of Christianity is that God doesn’t just forgive your mistakes. He heals what your mistakes did to you.

Most people feel “broken” because of past pain or the pressure to be perfect, but healing means those wounds no longer define who you are.

God doesn’t just erase a debt, He restores the person who carried it and gives you peace in its place.

Because Christ was pierced for us, we don’t have to carry the weight of our failures anymore.

He doesn’t just give you a second chance. He gives you a new heart.

05/13/2026

God doesn’t wait for you to get everything together before He moves toward you.

“The kindness of God leads us to repentance” — Romans 2:4

It’s not pressure or fear doing the work, it’s grace showing up first.

You end up changed because you finally feel loved as you are, and it becomes hard to stay the same.

05/08/2026

A “why” can carry you for a while, but even strong personal reasons eventually run out. What you put at the center of your life ends up deciding how steady you are when life gets unstable.

For a Christian, that center is Christ. Not just as motivation, but as the anchor when everything else feels uncertain or inconsistent.

He is not only a source of strength, but the One who holds all things together, so that a life placed in Him can actually stand.

05/07/2026

There is a difference between knowing about God and truly knowing Him.

It is the difference between seeing Him as an idea to understand and experiencing Him as real and present in everyday life.