Piney Grove Baptist Church

In “The Deception of Ease,” Pastor Jason Tate continues the Beware of the Drift series in Hosea 11:12–13:3. Israel claimed to trust God while looking to alliances, wealth, and idols for security. Through Jacob’s story and God’s call to return, this message asks us to examine where our trust really rests, respond honestly to sin, and live with integrity in a culture of compromise.

Pastor Jason continues the journey through the book of Hosea with a message entitled “The Compassionate Heart of God,” from Hosea 11:1–11. In this passage, God looks back on his fatherly care for Israel, confronts their continued rebellion, and reveals the compassion that moves him toward mercy. We are reminded that God is holy and just, yet rich in love, and that his love ultimately made a way of salvation through Jesus Christ.

This week, Pastor Jason Tate preaches from Hosea 10 in a message titled “The Danger of Delay.” Israel continued trusting in idols, earthly leaders, and its own strength while ignoring God’s repeated call to repentance. This passage warns us that persistent rebellion ends in judgment and challenges us to seek the Lord while there is still time.

This week, Pastor Jason shares a message from Hosea 9 titled “The Danger of Drifting.” As Israel’s gradual drift from God leads far from the purpose God had given them; to false worship, rejected truth, and spiritual fruitlessness, we are warned against allowing the same kind of compromise into our own lives and churches. Yet even when sin has left a life broken and lost, Jesus still offers forgiveness, redemption, and restoration.

This week, we welcome special guest Chris Barker, Site Coordinator with Baptists on Mission in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Chris shares his powerful and deeply personal testimony of how God met him in the midst of brokenness, redirected his life, and continues to use his story for His glory.

His story is a powerful reminder of the transforming grace of God and the truth that no life is beyond His reach. We pray Chris’s testimony encourages you and points you to the hope found in Jesus Christ.

We will also post the ministry update that Chris shared with us in a separate short episode. 

This week, Thomas Barber continues our journey through the book of Hosea with a message from Hosea 8, “Reaping the Whirlwind.” Israel claimed to know God while rejecting His Word, trusting their own wisdom, and worshiping the idols they had made. They wanted God’s blessing without submitting to His authority. This message reminds us that sin always carries consequences, outward religion cannot replace genuine faithfulness, and anything we trust in place of God will ultimately fail us. Yet even in His warnings, God graciously calls His people to recognize their sin, return to Him, and trust Him alone.

This week, Pastor Jason delivers a sermon from Hosea 6:7–7:16.  In this passage we see the devastating effects of allowing sin and compromise to slowly become normal. Israel had drifted so far from God that they no longer recognized what they had become. Yet even in their rebellion, God still desired to redeem them. This message challenges us to examine our own hearts, resist the pull of a culture opposed to God, and remember that true freedom and transformation are found only in Jesus Christ.

What does genuine repentance look like? In Hosea 6, God calls His wandering people to return to Him, but He desires more than temporary emotion, empty ritual, or outward religion. He desires our hearts.

In this message from Hosea 6:1–6, we see the call to return to the Lord, trust His restoring grace, press on to know Him, and depend on Him to sustain us when we are prone to wander. Through Hosea’s words and the picture of the prodigal son, we are reminded that God faithfully calls sinners home and desires steadfast love rather than empty sacrifice

In Hosea 5, Pastor Jason examines God's indictment against Israel's continual unfaithfulness, spiritual pride, and misplaced trust. Though God's people continued practicing religion, their hearts had drifted far from Him, deceiving themselves into believing all was well. Instead of turning to the Lord, they sought help and healing from the world, looking to human solutions for a problem that only God could fix. This passage is a timely reminder that God desires surrendered hearts, not empty rituals. As believers, we're called to examine our lives, reject self-reliance, and place our hope in Jesus Christ alone, the only One worthy of our trust, worship, and hope.

Today Pastor Jason walks through Hosea Chapter 4.  In this chapter we see a courtroom scene is set as God brings His case against His people. The charge: there is no truth, no faithful love, and no knowledge of God in the land. In this message, we examine the danger of allowing culture to redefine truth, the devastating consequences of biblical ignorance, and the responsibility every believer has to know and proclaim the gospel faithfully. While Hosea delivers a stern warning against compromise and spiritual drift, it also reveals the grace of a God who lovingly restrains His people from destruction and continually calls them back to Himself. Discover why true freedom is found not in following the culture, but in pursuing the truth of God's Word.