There’s no such thing as a self-made man.
On the back wall of the church hung a framed picture of Bill Hybels, our patron saint of attractional church. It was the early nineties when Chris Seay (pastor), David Crowder (music guy) and lots of their friends launched University Baptist in a white dilapidated hand-me-down wooden church… 
Archive for 2011
Where Credit Is Due
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I was twenty-four and I knew everything. I had a diploma from a university where I’d studied music composition.
I moved to Nashville to save the Christian music industry – starting as an unpaid intern wearing a tie, making copies at a music publishing company. But someday, I thought, I’ll ditch this suit, and get…
Taking Sides
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…
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…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a husband, father, singer and communicator connecting the first world with the third world for the benefit of both.
