When God Came Close

The Grove Church · Jul 6, 2026 · 29m · transcript

For four hundred years, the Jewish people waited in silence for a Messiah — and every expectation pointed to power. A warrior. A political liberator. Someone who would finally overthrow Rome and set things right by force. Instead, God arrived as a newborn, born to an unremarkable teenage mother, laid in a feeding trough because there was nowhere else to put him. In this message from our Foundations series, Spencer walks through Philippians 2:5–11 to unpack why God chose humility over prestige — and shares a personal story from a recent ER visit about what it means to have someone show up and…