The Grove Community Church Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.