Last night was an awesome night with our middle school and High School students at CATGrove!  They are awesome!  We had our incoming sixth graders come and they were welcomed with open arms. Our students meet on Wednesday nights at 6:30pm at the CATGrove office.  If you have a high school or middle school student in your family, they will love our student leaders...

I have a major problem!  Starbucks is raising their prices!  What is a coffee junkie to do?  As I see it, I have some options: Option #1 – I can enter a twelve step program and get off coffee all together.  This is not my number 1 choice. Option #2 – I can resort to Cappucinos at Quik Trip.  This doesn’t sound good. Option #3 – I may be...

Okay, I know technically it is not the end of summer, but practically speaking with school starting back next week, it is the end of summer vacation and that has a huge impact for those of us in the local church.  Here are several thoughts as we come to a close of our summer: It has been a great summer for Church at the Grove!  We have had many new faces come...

In the scripture, the word evangelism means “communicating or announcing good news”. Evangelism in our church culture has become a program, an event, a church leadership position, or an activity to pacify our religious guilt to absolve us from TRULY investing in relationships and friendships. Evangelism is simply getting close enough to people to journey...

Every Monday and/or Tuesday I wait with anticipation on hearing what the dollar amount of our Sunday offering is.  Very often my demeanor and peace of mind is directly impacted based on whether or not our offering is deemed acceptable or not.  If we have a “good” offering I will be full of joy and in a good mood or if we have a “bad”...