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Structured sermons with everyday traction.
The Grove Community Church Podcast presents measured Bible teaching with Pastor Craig Schill often guiding the room through passages step by step. Recent messages linger in 1 Samuel, using David, Saul, Goliath, and ordinary-life stories to press toward faith, waiting, repentance, and purpose.
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The Grove Community Church Podcast is a sermon archive shaped around careful Bible teaching and practical Christian response. Its center of gravity is the spoken message, not studio chatter. Pastor Craig Schill appears as a recurring pastoral voice, guiding listeners through texts with a deliberate sense of order. The pacing is measured. Recent episodes spend extended time in the story of David, slowing down around moments that many churchgoers may know by name but not always by context. David and Goliath is treated as more than an underdog tale. It becomes a way to ask whether faith changes how people see pressure, danger, fear, and public opposition. Saul’s story brings a different pressure. Waiting is hard, the sermon argues, especially when troops are leaving and the plan appears to be failing. The show is good at taking an ordinary scene and making it carry theological weight. A college resident assistant’s master key, a basketball game, a pair of buses leaving in opposite directions, and small objects from a home all become teaching tools. The illustrations are simple, but they are rarely random. They are used to make doctrine feel close to daily life. The recent material also returns to purpose, evangelism, sacrifice, and repentance. David’s rise is described with admiration, while his later moral collapse is handled with gravity and a concern for what success can expose. A guest message on the Good Samaritan adds another texture, pressing the familiar parable toward inconvenience, mercy, and the gap between religious service and costly love. The overall effect is warm but direct. It suits listeners who want church teaching that is accessible, scriptural, and willing to name both comfort and correction.
Made for: Best for Christian listeners who want patient Bible teaching, pastoral application, and familiar sermon rhythms. It especially suits people drawn to Old Testament character studies, evangelism, repentance, and practical discipleship.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its steady movement from concrete stories into close biblical application. It makes familiar passages feel newly usable without turning them into casual commentary or abstract theology.
Welcome to The Grove Community Church (formally known as Lake Cities Community Church). We are a nondenominational Christian church in Rowlett, TX.This podcast is a place where you can listen to our sermons and other content. We pray it will be an encouragement to you and your walk with Jesus Christ.Our mission is to win people to Christ, build them up into healthy and balanced believers, and send them out into our community, country, and to the ends of the earth to spread the love of Jesus.We hold tightly to what we believe, but we will not let grey issues define us as a people. That means wherever you are on your journey of faith, you are welcome here.Ephesian 4:4-5 "There is one body and…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Careful biblical reasoning and concrete illustrations connect scripture with suffering, service, repentance, and daily Christian practice.
The Grove Community Church Podcast turns biblical passages into clear, practical sermons without hiding the reasoning between text and application.
A melon baller, a rail clip, then King David: your practical Bible lesson has begun.
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A patient sermon links everyday purpose with David's calling, failure, repentance, and hope.
Purpose is framed through plain, useful objects: a melon baller, a rail clip, and a straw squeegee. Each becomes a small sign that created things are meant for something.
A free-ice-cream memory becomes a warm invitation to share faith naturally.
Evangelism is framed here with an approachable warmth: people share good news because joy naturally wants company. A childhood memory of Alan Degener riding through Arlington Heights to announce free ice cream gives the sermon its central image, then the message turns that…
A familiar parable becomes a searching lesson in the cost of passing by.
This single-episode review frames the Good Samaritan as a searching lesson in costly attention. It highlights how the sermon sets the shock of a Samaritan hero before its original audience, then traces the road from Jerusalem to Jericho with an eye on the priest who keeps…
A pastoral reading of 1 Peter that meets suffering with prayer, eternal hope, and a call to keep going.
This single-episode review follows a sermon on 1 Peter as it frames endurance through Christian hope: suffering is real, the world is broken, and restoration is held in view through eternal glory.
A Christmas genealogy becomes a grounded case for grace reaching through rejection and complicated family history.
Matthew 1:1-17 becomes more than a roll call in this Advent sermon. Pastor Craig Schill treats the genealogy as a map of unexpected people drawn into Jesus' family line, giving particular weight to Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Craig Schill contrasts two groups of decisions—sinful choices versus righteous ones—and challenges listeners to identify which leads to a life of faith.
This sermon concludes a study on 1 Peter, focusing on verses 10-14 to address how Christians can persevere through suffering.
Pastor Craig Schill of The Grove Community Church preaches on Matthew 1:1-17 during Advent, exploring the genealogy of Jesus.
Pastor Craig Schill explores how Christian faith provides a different perspective during hard times, using the story of David and Goliath from 1 Samuel 17.
Pastor Craig Schill begins a sermon series on David and Goliath, using a personal story about being a resident assistant with a master key to illustrate access and authority.
Pastor Craig Schill examines David's anointing in 1 Samuel 16:1-13, arguing that God chooses unlikely leaders rather than people who merely look like winners.
Pastor Craig Schill teaches from 1 Samuel 16:13-23 that “our decisions determine our destination,” using two buses leaving the George Bush Tollway for routes toward North Carolina and California.
Pastor Craig Schill discusses the biblical story of Saul's failure to wait for Samuel at Gilgal, highlighting the challenge of trusting God under pressure.
David’s life shows a rise, a fall, and the question, "What would it be for your life?"
The Grove Community Church centers this message on 1 Corinthians 9:19-23, where Paul says, "I have become all things to all people." The speaker pairs that text with a childhood story from Arlington Heights, Illinois, where Alan Degner shouted "free ice cream" and a group of kids followed him on faith.
The Grove Community Church Podcast with Pastor Craig Schill centers Luke 10 and the parable of the Good Samaritan, tying it to the sermon series on being "surprised by God." The speaker links the road from Jerusalem to Jericho, the "road of blood," to a priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan who "felt compassion" and paid "two denarii." The message also uses James 1:22, "be doers of the Word," and a three-part outline of "see, stop, and serve" to press for action.
Pastor Craig Schill introduces a sermon series on Matthew 7:13-14 using Justin Bieber's faith journey as an illustration.
Pastor Craig Schill explores the source of deep, perfect peace in a troubled world through interviews and biblical teaching.
Pastor Craig Schill uses the story of Willy Wonka to illustrate the need for a pure heart through faith in Jesus.
Pastor Craig Schill discusses two groups of decisions—sinful choices versus righteous ones—and challenges listeners to identify which leads to a life of faith.