I wasn’t born in time to hear Billy Graham at his peak. I attended my first crusade in my mid-twenties, here in Nashville, while serving as one of the hundreds of counselors trusted with follow-up at the event. Rev. Graham was past his peak by then and, well, mediocre at best.… 
Archive for July 2010
Miracles From Mediocrity
Defining Commitment
Some of you “worship leaders” have asked me to write about my adventures as the new volunteer “leader of worship leaders” at my church. Well, it’s not adventurous really; not yet. We’ve only taken our first step together. But that step is one we’ve never taken before and is worth a mention I think.…
Celebrating The Disciplines
Before Richard Foster wrote Celebration of Discipline in 1978, words like “meditation” and “simplicity” and “solitude” were relegated to the strange vocabularies of cloistered mystics and monks. Foster freed them, brought them to mainstream evangelical America.
Of course, “spiritual disciplines” have strong biblical foundations and have been practiced by saints for two thousand years. But the…
My Third Job
I’ve got a new job. In addition to playing and speaking on behalf of Compassion and leading Compassion Bloggers, now I’m the “leader of worship leaders” at WellSpring Christian church in Spring Hill, Tennessee – a small church that meets together in an elementary school cafeteria and has met my family’s need for community for…
Angels & Idols & Setting Stuff On Fire
Regie’s lyrics make me want to write better and make me never want to write again. That’s how good they are.
I first met Regie when I was working in a small office at a music publishing company. He had an intense way about him, restless, his dark brown eyes open a little too wide on…
Perfect Timing
Becky’s grandfather just turned 90. And, he jokes, he still has all his original parts – No replacements. The man is in better health at 90, more mentally sharp, more active and enthusiastic than I am many days at 36!
So we’re celebrating.
The whole family is headed out to sea for a week. A whole week…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
