The Grove Church / Dallas, Texas

As The Grove celebrates nine years, we look to Luke 5 to renew our commitment to bringing people to Jesus, trusting in his power to transform lives, and carrying that faith into everyday life.

Forgiveness can feel like letting someone off the hook, but Jesus shows us why holding onto the debt can hurt us more than the wrong itself.

When someone hurts us, making them pay can feel like justice—but retaliation has a way of keeping us tied to the very wrong we want to escape.

Avoiding conflict can feel like peace in the moment—but unresolved hurt has a way of collecting interest in resentment, distance, and relationships that slowly change. 

People hurt us, disappoint us, offend us—and often they move on long before we do. If we keep carrying it, the offense can keep shaping us long after the moment is over.

We’re living in a culture obsessed with optimization: better choices, better routines, better outcomes. But the more we organize life around what works best for us, the easier it is to make ourselves the center of everything. In today’s sermon, we ask what happens when the self becomes the foundation... and why that foundation eventually fails.

We assume we’ll need God most when life falls apart. Moses worries about something else: what happens when life goes well? The very things we once prayed for can quietly become the things that make us forget the God we prayed to.

The way you live tells a story and the people closest to you are paying attention. What are they learning from your life about what matters, what can be trusted, and what makes life worth living? In this message, we discover how the story we trust shapes the life we live, and how that life can become something worth passing on.

You can genuinely want to become more like Jesus and still find yourself falling into the same patterns. What if God wants to use the ordinary rhythms of your everyday life to reshape what you love, what you trust, and ultimately who you become?

There are voices all around us telling us what success, security, happiness, and the good life should look like. And the voices we listen to eventually shape how we live. Every voice promises us life—but not every voice can give it. So who are you listening to?