I have been reflecting on the first year of Church at the Grove and I thought about my top ten favorite memories over this past year!  There may be some things that I have forgotten that will come to my mind later.  If so, I will add them to some other blog posts.  Here it goes: 10.  Watching Craig Story become an excellent teacher/communicator.  It has been so...

This past weekend I had the privilege of attending the 50th wedding anniversary celebration for my wife’s parents, Mr. Ronnie and Mrs. Janie Sammons.  They are among the godliest people I have ever known.  I can honestly say that I have INCREDIBLE in-laws.  They treat me like a son and they have modeled to me what it means to serve one another in a...

  I have read a lot on sex and sexuality in preparation for our “Can We Bring Sexy Back?” series.  Here is what I learned from Rob Bell’s Sex God: When it comes to talking about sex…….it’s always about something else.  Sex is about something else–namely intimacy. God Wears Lipstick When a human being is mistreated,...

I have to confess the last two to three weeks have been a blur and because of my exhaustion and need to recover, I feel I am unable to fully enjoy what God is doing in my life and in our midst here at Church at the Grove.  I look at what’s happening and I am overwhelmed but today (Mondays are like this often) I am just tired.  Consider this: I am absolutely...

As we celebrate the past year in the life of Church at the Grove, we are taking a look at the Core Values, or ministry filters as we like to call them.  Authentic Relationships Among the characteristics of the Buster (Gen-X) and Bridger (Millennial) generations is the longing desire for meaningful and accepting community.  Church at the Grove desires to be a...