Just a few days before the depression took over, I agreed to write a book about the kingdom of God. My publisher was glad I’d shaken my fears and started writing again. My working title was Beggar’s Fortune and I hoped it would inspire Christians who’ve only been told what they were saved from to… 
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Beggar’s Fortune (Part 7)
Beggar’s Fortune (Part 6)
How could I sing about a God I wasn’t consistently sure existed, a God I was angry at and felt abandoned by? How could I talk about the power of hope over poverty when I felt so hopeless and poor?
So I canceled my gigs at LifeFest and in Fort Atkinson Wisconsin and decided to stay…
Beggar’s Fortune (Part 5)
Jesus didn’t float out of his tomb. He walked. He didn’t ascend through the clouds as a disembodied spirit either. And he won’t come back as one. And this is all really good stuff to remember when you’re depressed or trying to help someone who is. I’ll try to explain why.
Some Christians – including me,…
Beggar’s Fortune (Part 4)
Oswald Chambers, author of the classic My Utmost For His Highest, is the spiritual hero of thousands if not millions of Christians worldwide. But few people know he languished in depression for years before writing his masterpiece. When the darkness ended, he wrote: “For four years, nothing but the overruling grace of God and the…
Beggar’s Fortune (Part 3)
Remember those days when you learned something new about each other every time you talked? No one tells you this when you’re dating or at the reception after the wedding, but that ends – or it slows down as the years together accumulate. You may go months or even years without any new revelations about…
Important Intermission
I’m writing and will keep writing about the depression that swallowed me this month but don’t be alarmed. I’m writing about it in the past tense because…it’s past tense.
If it were present tense I wouldn’t be able to put a sentence together, much less entire paragraphs. Nothing added up and words were few and far…
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.
