Before Richard Foster wrote Celebration of Discipline in 1978, words like “meditation” and “simplicity” and “solitude” were relegated to the strange vocabularies of cloistered mystics and monks. Foster freed them, brought them to mainstream evangelical America.
Of course, “spiritual disciplines” have strong biblical foundations and have been practiced by saints for two thousand years. But the… 
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Celebrating The Disciplines
Angels & Idols & Setting Stuff On Fire
Regie’s lyrics make me want to write better and make me never want to write again. That’s how good they are.
I first met Regie when I was working in a small office at a music publishing company. He had an intense way about him, restless, his dark brown eyes open a little too wide on…
Push Button Faith
I’ve disconnected for the last few days from phones and computers. I’ve learned the hard way what it feels like to near empty and what happens when I ignore the gauge, go on running on fumes and self-determination. I know how important it is, before reaching empty, to be with people who fill me back…
Thanks To Dewey & His Decimals: My Best Books
This weekend (and this morning) I got all nerdy and organized at the same time. I know. Multi-tasking. Who knew I was capable?…
A Reply To Those People
I’ve always ignored those people: The ones who get very upset at Target this time of year and decide to e-mail me and the rest of their address book about it. This year, to those people, I would now like to preemptively say Simmer down. And also……
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.
