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… 
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Beggar’s Fortune (Part 4)
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…
Beggar’s Fortune (Part 2)
I felt it coming. I called my parents a few months ago and asked them to pray. My marriage was good, kids were healthy, work was steady, finances in surplus. But – and I know how this must sound – I felt like something was coming after us. “Or I’m crazy,” I laughed.
It was an…
Beggar’s Fortune
Six feet long. Four feet wide. Maybe five feet tall. A blue concrete box with one barred window. Roof made of plastic sheets held in place by heavy sticks, rocks and unidentifiable pieces of junk.
We sat on the floor of Kiran’s house and asked her questions. Then the eleven year-old girl asked us one.
She stood…
Psalm 42
1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food
day and night,
while men say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember
as I…
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.
