We flew to North Carolina, drove three hours to the first gig of the weekend in Virginia. It was a gathering of Baptist youth groups from the region. Not my usual audience. I sang a few songs, spoke a few words and left wondering if I connected, if I served the students well, if I… 
Archive for April 2012
I Will Not Should On Myself
Jesus & Justice For All #2: Fast Living
I told you recently about my son, Sambhaji, and his nightly refusal to eat salad. He can be very manipulative/charming when he wants to be delivered from greens.
One night, because salad was all that remained on his plate and he knew he’d be told to eat it soon, he tilted his head in his cute…
Jesus & Justice For All #1: Deleted Scenes
Two hundred years after Jesus’s ascension, Hippolytus wrote about the ritual of baptism as practiced by the first generations of Christians. Their “I believe”s told a story.
When the person being baptized goes down into the water, he who baptizes him, putting his hand on him, shall say: “Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty?”…
To Remind Us Who We Are
A group of business people take their seats around a conference table. A guy with a guitar enters, invites them all to stand, and the suited gathering sings the corporate mission statement.
That doesn’t happen.
Church is one of the very few places where people gather together and sing. And it’s strange. And uncomfortable for many. And…
Until A Better Love
He saw it coming. He knows the drill by now. Before she could tell him for the hundredth time to finish the green things on his plate, he tilted his head and smiled at her.
“Why I love you so much, Mom?”
“I don’t know,” Becky answered, “why do you love me so much?”
He rolled his eyes…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a husband, father, singer and communicator connecting the first world with the third world for the benefit of both.
