Shaun Groves

When we forget we’re helpless hopeless dogs without God, when we forget we’re to be woed as much as everyone else, when we forget we have no rights and are in no position to negotiate with the Master or control anything in his backyard, we do stupid things.  We walk into church, discover it’s banjo…

One of the Greek words translated as “worship” in today’s English bible is proskuneo. It means “to kiss the hand as a statement of submission.” It’s what happens when a commoner comes face to face with the king – he lowers himself to finger level, puckers up and kisses the royal ring.  That kiss…

It’s like transferring vinyl to mp3. A lot of information gets whittled away when the bible is taken from Greek and Hebrew and a foreign culture and ancient time and transferred into English to be read by modern Americans.  What we’re left with is still beautiful and moving but we sense sometimes that what we…

Isaiah was the Bob Dylan of the eighth century BC.  He was a protest singer.  I can see him sitting on a dimly lit stage, bottles and plates clinking in the background, his acoustic guitar propped up on one knee. He leans into the microphone and strums song after song built on the only…

With one set of wings they covered their feet.  Even beings made with the stuff of Heaven know they’re too dirty to bump up against the train of God’s robe. Folks with Phd’s, and other letters behind their names I just don’t have, say the robe of God symbolizes His purity, perfection, holiness.  And the train…

Not a note was heard, not a guitar was strummed or organ played.  Not a single song was composed.  But Isaiah saw God being worshipped. He saw two angels there by the throne.  They had wings and eyes where wings and eyes just don’t belong. With one set of wings they covered their eyes.  Even beings made…