I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.
-Charles H. Spurgeon
I had no idea what a divisive issue birthing was until Becky was pregnant… 
Archive for November 2011
Taking Sides
Roots & Vision
I don’t have any better words for you today than these I read this morning…
What would you think of a pollster who issued a definitive report on how the American people felt about a new television program, if we discovered later that he had interviewed only one person who had seen only ten minutes of…
A New Kind Of Life
Gabriella is my theologian, dissecting everything she’s taught, digesting it into questions I often can’t answer.
“If God can forgive anybody for anything,” she once asked,”will he forgive Satan one day and let him into heaven with us?”
“Someone had to be punished for my sin because God made that rule,” she once reasoned. “Why didn’t he…
Please Play
I can hear him walking up the stairs, the smallest feet in the house making the biggest sound.
I keep my head bent toward my laptop.
I hear the jangling of his wrestling with the door knob. Then he gives up. And, truthfully? I’m glad. There’s a lot to get done after a week away.
“Please play wit…
A Long Obedience In The Same Direction
I tried softer reeds. Then harder ones. I bought a new mouthpiece. Then went back to the old. And when these things didn’t turn me into Branford Marsalis quickly enough, I quit.
I so much hated being last – embarrassed – that I quit.
My band director dared me to practice instead. “Practice this book everyday for…
A Dozen Kisses Later
The first kiss, filled with stomach-knotting passion and newness, was shockingly good. But now, hundreds of kisses later? On the same lips? In the same arms? There’s no retrieving and reliving new.
But in place of new is something else at the heart of the relationship, something she must remind herself is better when discontent whispers…
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.
