Sunday At The Grove

What is God's will for your life? You don't need a special sign. This 1 Peter 3 sermon from The Grove walks through 1 Peter 3:8-17, where Peter gives believers a prescriptive five-part code of conduct: unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Dr. Gary Alley shows how this code strengthens the church family and strategically opens the door for influence in...

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Does God still speak today, and how can you hear God's voice? This episode walks through 1 Samuel 3 — the night God called young Samuel — and asks the question every believer faces: is your prayer life powerful or pitiful? Discover three biblical truths about hearing God: (1) God speaks — from Genesis to Revelation, Scripture reveals a God who speaks to His people. (2) Hearing is determined by...

Show Notes: What happens to kids when mom and dad stop talking to each other, or when they never stop fighting? This message from The Grove Church in Kingston, TN digs into co-parenting after divorce, using Proverbs 22:6 as a starting point and 1 John 2:4-6 as the real measuring stick: do you actually walk like Jesus with the people closest to you, or just talk like you do? Pastor Phillip Martin l...

What does the Bible actually say about divorce, and how do you parent well when your family has already been through it? This message opens the Parenting Is Hard series' hardest topic yet, walking through Psalm 139's picture of being formed by God with purpose, before turning to the statistics behind why marriages end and how divorce ripples through kids, co-parents, and even grandparents....

In this message from The Grove Church in Kingston, TN, Pastor Phillip Martin walks through Acts chapter 2, tracing the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came, transformed a room full of frightened disciples, and launched the church with 3,000 new believers in a single day. From there the sermon connects that history to how The Grove operates now: the Grove Life class for anyone considering mem...

In this message, Pastor Phillip Martin continues the "Parenting Is Hard" series by looking at two parents who got it right: Abraham and Eunice. Using Genesis 22 and Psalm 78, he shows how Abraham's own trust in God is what taught Isaac to trust his father, even when Abraham was asked to sacrifice him on Mount Moriah. From there the sermon turns to Acts 16 and 2 Timothy, tracing how E...

Why does a parent who's present every day sometimes lose their kids just as badly as one who's never around? This message tackles that question through the story of King David, a warrior and king who could face down giants and armies but couldn't bring himself to confront his own son. The sermon traces the fallout in David's family through 2 Samuel 13 and 1 Kings 1, from Amnon and...

What happens when the greatest leader in the Bible misses the moments that mattered most to his own kids? In this message, Pastor Phillip Martin continues the "Parenting Is Hard" series by looking at Moses, the man who led Israel out of Egypt and parted the Red Sea, and the decision he made that left his own sons on the outside of his faith. Built around Proverbs 22:6, this sermon makes...

Why do so many of us swear we'll parent differently than our own mom or dad, only to catch ourselves repeating the same patterns? In this sermon of the "Parenting Is Hard" series, Pastor Phillip Martin at The Grove Church in Kingston, TN tackles that question head-on in a message called "Forgiving Mom and Dad," teaching from Ephesians 4 on how bitterness toward our parents...

What does the story of the prodigal son actually teach us about being a parent? In this message, Pastor Phillip Martin of The Grove Church in Kingston, TN launches a new series called "Parenting Is Hard" and reads Luke 15 not as a salvation story but as one of the most honest pictures of a messy family in all of scripture, complete with a father, a runaway son, and a jealous older brothe...

What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? In this message from The Grove, Pastor Tyler Brown breaks down 2 Timothy to challenge how we measure true success. He emphasizes that the accomplishments on our resumes will eventually be forgotten, but a life lived for the gospel has eternal implications.  This sermon walks through the practical steps of building a gospel legacy: receiving faith persona...

Have you ever noticed that history just keeps repeating itself? The truth is, human nature doesn't change. The self-centered, status-driven culture of the ancient Roman world looks a whole lot like the world we live in right now. In this message, we dive deep into Luke 12 to unpack Jesus' straightforward warnings to a crowd that was dangerously distracted by their own selfish agendas. We a...

It’s easy to celebrate living in a free country while quietly serving time in a prison of our own making. From the trap of unresolved bitterness to the heavy burden of living up to other people's expectations, many of us are locked up without even realizing it. In this episode, Dr. Phillip Martin asks a hard, grounded question: what is actively stealing your freedom? We dive into the reality o...

What would you do if you found out a thief was trying to break into your home? You’d lock the doors, secure the perimeter, and take immediate action. But what do you do when the enemy is actively breaking into your spiritual life? In this message, Dr. Phillip Martin unpacks the sobering, everyday reality of spiritual warfare. We tend to brush off deep struggles as just "bad days," "...

What would you do differently if you knew the exact date and time your life would end? In this message, we introduce a new series at The Grove: Defending Your Days and Maximizing Your Life . Diving into Proverbs 29:18, Dr. Phillip Martin unpacks how a lack of vision causes individuals, marriages, and families to quietly "perish" or drift into reckless, unrestrained living. This message i...

In this sermon, Dr. Phillip Martin brings us to a temporary pause in our verse-by-verse study of the Book of Revelation as we examine the breaking of the sixth seal in Revelation chapter 6. Up until this point, humanity has lived through the preliminary warning signs carried by the Four Horsemen. But when this seal is broken, human history reaches a terrifying tipping point where God's patienc...

In the message, Dr. Phillip Martin guidse us through the gripping reality of the fifth seal in Revelation chapter 6. We live in a society that has watered down the image of God into something soft and one-sided, focusing strictly on "puppies and rainbows." But what happens when we look honestly at scripture and realize that an angry, vengeful side of God is actively present in both the O...

Is there actual evidence for the existence of God? And if so, how do we know the Gospel is true? In this message, Dr. Gary Alley tackles the biggest questions of faith by looking directly at the evidence. We explore the historical weight of the Apostle Paul's radical conversion on the road to Damascus, and how the intricate details of creation and molecular biology point directly to God's...

What happens to the earth when the Antichrist's false peace is abruptly removed? In this message, Dr. Phillip Martin walks us through the catastrophic events of Revelation Chapter 6 as the Lamb breaks the next sequence of seals on the heavenly scroll. This deep dive into eschatology covers the devastating arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Listen in to understand the geopolitical...

Do you ever struggle with feeling like you aren't good enough? In this message, Pastor Tyler Brown tackles the insecurity that plagues so many of us, pointing directly to the truth found in Ephesians 2. This message strips away the world's standard of self-help and comparison, reminding believers that while we are inherently broken without Christ, we are made entirely sufficient through Hi...

What kicks off the seven-year tribulation on earth? In this episode, Dr. Phillip Martin unpacks the monumental shift from the heavenly throne room in Revelation 5 to the outpouring of God's judgment in Revelation 6. This teaching breaks down the complex subject of eschatology, exploring what happens to the church during the tribulation and how Jesus' prophetic warnings in Matthew 24 map pe...

What happens in heaven just before the tribulation begins? In this episode, Dr. Phillip Martin of The Grove examines Revelation Chapters 4 and 5, uncovering the monumental shift that sets the end times into motion. Dr. Martin walks listeners through the Apostle John’s vivid account of the throne room of God, focusing on the moment a seven-sealed scroll is extended. When no one in heaven, on earth,...

In this message, Dr. Phillip Martin walks through Revelation 4 verse by verse and takes the throne room of God completely apart. You'll hear: What the Jasper stone (clear as diamond) and the Sardius stone (blood red as a Ruby) reveal about who God is — his brilliance and his coming wrath Why those two stones were the first and last on the high priest's breastplate, representing Reuben (&qu...

What do you do when life won't stop beating you down? Dr. Phillip Martin walks through three powerful pieces of Scripture to show why the single greatest thought you can have in the middle of pain is the thought of heaven. Paul was lowered out of a building in a basket to escape people trying to kill him — and right after that, he wrote about being caught up to the third heaven, seeing inexpre...