Humble, contented, at peace, with contagious love? Because Jesus and His imputed worthiness are UNsatisfying to me — to my human-wisdom, which is responsible for the dark side of my motivation for holiness. It seems so noble to wannabe a model Christian. One of the good guys. A winner, not a [shudder] loser. That’s my…

you don’t have the luxury of a healthy devotional life — you need extraordinary devotional life. If the total sovereignty of Jesus is not central to your devotional life, to your experience as you go through your day, you will be angry, or living in denial, or hopelessly depressed — the least challenges will feel…

but a Savior. I don’t have a one-year plan, or a five-year plan. JESUS is my plan. Being curious/expectant to see what He does NEXT, in me, others, circumstances, is DAVE’S biggest need. All my life I’ve had plans, and what good have they done me? They made me a control-freak perfectionist, obsessing over the…

by encouraging circumstances, I’m depending on my flesh — human-wisdom-dependency, not Jesus-dependency. Same for discouraging circumstances. How do I KNOW what’s best or worst for me, and those I love? My human-wisdom tells me. Scripture, however, commands me to NOT lean on my own understanding, NOT be wise in my own eyes, but rather fix…

in my experience. Wait, Dave, I’m not competitive. Really? Not all competitives are sports fans. Competitive means judging others and their creations — thumbs up, down, or just okay. Competitives who are unusually self-aware secretly ENJOY seeing others fail, mess up like we do, or worse than us — especially opponents, enemies. So we feel…

and their income, or our OWN income, in the midst of this pandemic, I might as well be accusing Jesus of not knowing what He’s doing in their lives, or ours, of Him not having a genius plan for each of us that He’s right now executing, of Him being untrustworthy in the process. Oh…

To obey. Perfectly. When I fail? CONFESS. Only the fool imagines him/herself ABLE to obey. Well, unless the fool so dumbs down the law/sin to outside-the-cup stuff that’s easy to obey superficially, so s/he imagines acceptable obedience. No such thing as acceptable obedience. Perfect. Or failure. All have failed, and all Christians continue to fail.…

for us Christians, but it’s not. The Gospel oughta set us Christians FREE to live and love with reckless abandon, but it doesn’t. Look around you. Do you see Christians who are seed cast on fertile soil that reproduce a hundredfold, even thirtyfold, even a few? Are we Christians contagious to the seculars around us?…

I need Jesus more. I don’t seem to need Jesus nearly as much when I feel great. I don’t have the luxury of INdependency — of ignoring Jesus, when I feel lousy. Or, I CAN ignore Him, but I’m utterly miserable, because any difficulty feels overwhelming, so life is unbearably harrrd. I just wanna go…

…coming together this past Easter Sunday. Wow. What started out as a crazy idea, turned into a powerful worship moment in their city. In less than two weeks, nearly thirty churches unified to sing a blessing over the city of Pittsburgh. This video was revealed during many of the Easter online services in churches across…